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... Institutions & Political Economy Rodrigo Schneider Published 19.05.21
Exporting pollution Well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer countries where regulation isn’t so strict... Energy & Environment Itzhak Ben-David Yeejin Jang Stefanie Kleimeier Michael Viehs Published 05.05.21
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... Agriculture Rachid Laajaj Karen Macours Cargele Masso Moses Thuita Bernard Vanlauwe Published 31.03.21
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... Institutions & Political Economy Yannick Pengl Philip Roessler Valeria Rueda Published 17.03.21
Africa's roads make the rich richer Do politicians and presidents build roads to allow their citizens to get around, or is it primarily to make themselves richer?... Infrastructure Roberto Bonfatti Yuan Gu Steven Poelhekke Published 10.03.21
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... Energy & Environment Ulrich J. Eberle Dominic Rohner Mathias Thoenig Published 03.03.21
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... Institutions & Political Economy Abhijit Banerjee Nils Enevoldsen Rohini Pande Michael Walton Published 24.02.21
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... Finance Abhijit Banerjee Emily Breza Arun G. Chandrasekhar Esther Duflo Matthew Jackson Cynthia Kinnan Published 17.02.21
Learning-by-doing: Navigating financial technologies among Bangladeshi factory workers How automatic payments can help individuals save more and better protect themselves against consumer risks... Finance Emily Breza Martin Kanz Leora F. Klapper Published 02.02.21