Childcare responsibilities fall disproportionately on women, causing them to leave the labour market after grandmothers pass away

Foreign direct investment, via 'quid pro quo', facilitated knowledge spillovers and quality upgrades in the Chinese automobile industry

Do meritocratic promotions increase worker productivity?

Does electoral accountability discipline public spending?

The nonrandom assignment of import declarations to inspectors is associated with corruption and lost tax revenues, but interventions to combat this must be carefully monitored

Better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing wages.

When SOEs are privatised their employees’ wages, particularly for the less educated, fall dramatically, which also has negative spillover effects on workers at other private sector firms.

Better information about intermediaries in international migration improves migrant worker outcomes

Well-designed programmes may be ineffective in practice, even with high compliance