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The impact of school-based life skills classes for adolescent girls in India
School-based life skills classes can change attitudes, strengthen social connections, and help girls assert more control over their lives while staying in school
Negotiating a better future: Experimental evidence from Zambia
Can we increase girls’ educational outcomes through endowing them with negotiation skills?
Can taxation stimulate political participation? Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
A property tax campaign in the city of Kananga increased tax compliance and stimulated citizen demand for inclusive and accountable government
The long debate on sharecropping and productivity
Increasing the tenant’s share in output encourages profitable risk-taking, in addition to large effects on input levels
The economics of child marriage
Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage
Can formalisation of customary land rights help reduce deforestation? Evidence from Benin
Experimental results find that formalisation of customary landholdings and land rights reduced tree cover loss in rural areas of Benin
International friends and enemies
As countries become greater economic friends in terms of the welfare effects of their productivity growth, they become greater political friends in terms of United Nations voting and strategic rivalries.
How soccer and goals make better relationships
Lessons on gender parity and staying healthy reduced intimate partner violence and led goal-minded girls to choose age-appropriate and ‘better’ boys
Learning management through matching: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Evidence from Ethiopia shows that interning in a management role for a month leads to higher wage earnings and can help some people run profitable businesses
How economic development shapes emigration
Aid agencies have invested in the idea that economic development reduces emigration from poor countries, but the experience has been very different
