An experiment reveals that church members enrolled in formal insurance give less money to their church and to other charitable organisations

Women leaders increase the provision of public goods that benefit women and children more, and also raise the aspirations of girls and their parents

The spread of export agriculture and print technologies across Africa transformed ethnicity via their effects on politicisation and boundary-making

A video experiment uncovers the potential pitfalls of relying on legal reforms alone to reduce female early marriage in low-income countries

Policy crackdowns on dowries can reduce their prevalence, but with unintended impacts on women’s decision-making power and domestic violence

Councilors who thought performance reports would be published before an election invested more in infrastructure, with positive impacts on re-election

Isolation is common amongst women living in contexts with restrictive gender norms but varies across socioeconomic groups

Presidential appointment of judges may be costing Pakistan about 0.14% of GDP or about $400 million in land expropriations every year

Concessions granted to private companies to extract natural resources still have negative effects on present-day development in the DRC