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Do social structures affect the success of development policies?
Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions
How can countries grow sustainably?
Domestic and multilateral efforts are both needed to ensure people can benefit from economic growth opportunities
Measuring the impact of a home visiting programme on child skills
A home visiting programme substantially improves the language, cognitive, fine motor and socioemotional skills of left-behind children in rural China
Data revolution: Transforming Sierra Leone
How a collaboration between the IGC and policymakers in Sierra Leone reduced barriers to trade and helped local businesses export their goods
Measuring the cost of living in Mexico and the US
Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated
Does caste identity affect labour supply? Evidence from India
Caste identity concerns constrain labour supply decisions, causing Indian workers to avoid certain jobs even at large economic costs
Incentivising behavioural change: The role of time preferences
Bundling payment incentives over time is more effective in increasing effort among the impatient, relative to increasing payment frequency
Land distribution and long-run development in the American frontier
Policies 150 years ago that allowed large landlords to obtain thousands of square miles of land lowered investment and property values into the 21st century
Reducing labour market information frictions with skill certificates: Evidence from South Africa
Youth skill assessment increased employment and earnings for treated workseekers by providing information to both them and prospective employers
Paying outsourced labour: Evidence from Argentina
Temp agency workers in Argentina receive 49% of the workplace-specific pay premia earned by regular workers in user firms
