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Electronic medical records save lives
The implementation of an electronic medical records (EMR) system in Malawi’s HIV clinics has saved thousands of lives by improving clinic efficiency. EMRs help clinic staff trace lapsed patients and manage larger patient volumes.
When taxpayers see unfairness, they may stop paying their tax bill
Taxpayers respond not only to how much they are taxed, but also to whether the system feels fair: inequities created by crude tax proxies can reduce compliance as much as high rates themselves. Better data and technology can help states improve fairn...
Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change
Drawing on a randomised controlled trial among rice farmers in Nigeria, we introduce a new method for linking village-level interventions with high-resolution earth observation data – which captures spatial variation in how new technologies spread an...
Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation
Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change.
First to wake, last to eat: How India’s quest for gender parity begins on an unequal footing
Evidence from India suggests that women tend to wake earlier and eat later than men, leading to reduced sleep, leisure, and social time – which worsens physical and mental health outcomes. These disparities persist across economic groups, remain larg...
