All VoxDevTalks
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The effects of crime on the labour market: Evidence from Mexico
Rising violence in Mexico City led workers, especially women, to reduce hours and leave the labour force
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Reshaping gender attitudes: Evidence from schools in India
Integrated school-based interventions to advance gender equality can achieve lasting changes in regressive attitudes and behaviours
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The effects of gun control on crime: Evidence from Brazil
The 2003 introduction of stricter gun controls led to a significant reduction in gun-related homicides and other crimes
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Exporting pollution
Well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict
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Why promising trials often fail to result in agricultural yield gains: Evidence from Kenya
Farmer selection and researcher interference during trials can introduce bias, impacting how new technologies perform in real-world conditions
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Politics and ethnicity in Africa
The spread of export agriculture and print technologies across Africa transformed ethnicity via their effects on politicisation and boundary-making
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Boiling point in Africa: Climate change and inter-group conflict across the continent
Resource constraints due to climate change are increasing conflicts between herders and farmers trying to make a living
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Public disclosure as a political incentive: Evidence from municipal elections in India
Councilors who thought performance reports would be published before an election invested more in infrastructure, with positive impacts on re-election
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The unintended impacts of formal credit programmes on social networks: Evidence from India
The introduction of financial institutions in communities may generate long-lasting externalities, including losses in informal social linkages