All VoxDevTalks
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Designing more effective interventions to prevent childhood stunting: Evidence from Nigeria
Bundling interventions that offer parents health information along with cash transfers might yield more sustainable changes in early-life health...
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Urban-rural gaps in the developing world: Does internal migration offer opportunities?
Policymakers might seek to address the frictions that prevent potentially beneficial migration to urban areas from taking place
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Unintended consequences: How workfare programmes may fuel school dropouts in India
Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment
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How does shame and embarrassment impact social learning? Evidence from India
People are less likely to ask questions in their communities if it exposes the limits of their knowledge.
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Failure of frequent assessment: Evidence from India’s continuous and comprehensive evaluation programme
More frequent assessment of student performance fails to deliver on improved outcomes when the administrative burden on teachers is high
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Should electricity be a right? Evidence from India
A social norm in which people deserve access to electricity regardless of payment may actually be undermining efforts for universal access
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Technology as a tool for governance: Evidence from China
Technology can help governments monitor agent actions more efficiently and improve public welfare
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How does funding influence sectoral and geographic spread of NGOs?
NGOs compete for donor attention and funding; this can influence what they choose to focus on and lead to clustering around more attractive projects.
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Gender norms, rule of law, and female entrepreneurship in developing countries
Unless you have both relatively equal gender laws and decent rule of law, female entrepreneurship is very low