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Population policies and fertility convergence
While urbanisation and socioeconomic factors played a role, the global decline in fertility is largely due to successful population control programmes
The effects of pay inequality
Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.
Does Fair Trade work?
Fair Trade coffee produced in Costa Rica benefits the producers and skilled workers, but not the unskilled workers
Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships
While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts
An agenda for urban access
Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how to overcome them.
Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from Uruguay
How does information about tax audits affect tax evasion? Firms do increase their tax compliance but this response is not necessarily rational.
Is inequality underestimated in Egypt? Evidence from house prices
Evidence from the housing market suggests inequality is being substantially underestimated in Egypt, by about 33%
Let their people come: Migrants as drivers of knowledge diffusion
Migration, particularly skilled migration, is a driver of knowledge diffusion and it can induce productivity shifts as measured by new exports
If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap
Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.
Learning from drunk and absent policemen in Kenya
Historical data from Kenya show that when an ethnic group gains power, public servants of that group may be emboldened to misbehave
