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Poverty and depression: How improving mental health can help economic wellbeing
How do poor mental health and poverty interact, and how can we best ensure access to mental health services?
Boosting firm productivity through joining multinational supply chains
Domestic firms that start supplying to multinational corporations see their productivity grow between 6% and 9%
What’s wrong with economics?
How can economists better communicate with the wider public to regain the profession’s credibility?
Something to complain about: How minority representatives overcome ethnic barriers
Access to formal complaints technologies improves minorities’ strategic bargaining power within local government and improves public good provision
How remittances affect long-run economic change in rural labour markets
International labour migration and related remittances increase human capital attainment in rural areas, and over the long run trigger a shift of jobs out of farming towards the service sector
Reducing rates of child marriage: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Why do we still see high rates of child marriage in settings such as Bangladesh, despite significant improvements in women’s economic empowerment?
How refugees boost business growth in hosting locations
A large influx of Syrian refugees in Turkey induced substantial increments in Turkish firm production and entry, with variation in effects across firm size and sectors
Does vocational educational training work? Experimental evidence from Mongolia
Can investments in vocational training, contrary to the existing research literature, actually improve labour market outcomes?
Electricity and firm productivity: A general equilibrium approach
Eliminating power outages in the developing world would substantially raise firm productivity and worker wages in the long run
In the eyes of the beholder: How do artisans set prices for their products
Artisans who are attached to their creative output offer discounts to discerning buyers, even when these buyers have a high willingness to pay
