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How potential offenders and victims interact: Evidence from Chile
Decoupling driver salaries from fare revenues led to a surge in crime, highlighting the role of private behaviour in victimisation
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How technology can drive student performance
How does the use of education technology actually impact students in poorer regions of the developing world?
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Uncongested mobility in urban India
Variation in transportation performance is driven by uncongested mobility due to everyday road obstructions, not conventional traffic congestion
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Job security or flexibility?
A study in urban India reveals that workers would be willing to reduce their wages for greater job security while also incorporating flexibility
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Do job training programmes work?
The design and incentives of work programmes need to be aligned with the skills demanded by participating firms and the labour market at large
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The many dimensions of mobile money: Evidence from Bangladesh
Mobile money makes transfers easier, increases rural consumption and reduces poverty, but places pressure on migrant workers to increase remittances
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Land Rights and Urban Poverty
Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.