All VoxDevTalks
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Did joint ventures help China's automobile industry?
Foreign direct investment, via 'quid pro quo', facilitated knowledge spillovers and quality upgrades in the Chinese automobile industry
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Promotion, pay and productivity: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Do meritocratic promotions increase worker productivity?
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Democracy and infrastructure investment in Indonesia
Does electoral accountability discipline public spending?
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Corruption in Customs: Evidence from Madagascar
The nonrandom assignment of import declarations to inspectors is associated with corruption and lost tax revenues, but interventions to combat this...
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The benefits of road maintenance in Indonesia
Better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing wages.
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How does privatisation impact workers? Evidence from Brazil
When SOEs are privatised their employees’ wages, particularly for the less educated, fall dramatically, which also has negative spillover effects on...
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Improving migrant workers' welfare
Better information about intermediaries in international migration improves migrant worker outcomes
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Improving public sector management at scale
Well-designed programmes may be ineffective in practice, even with high compliance
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Bureaucratic representation and state responsiveness during crises
Bureaucratic representation in the Indian civil service lowered mortality rates during the 1918 influenza pandemic