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

People are less likely to ask questions in their communities if it exposes the limits of their knowledge.

Increases in local mineral wealth raise both the likelihood of criminally charged politicians entering office and asset accumulation among incumbents

NGOs compete for donor attention and funding; this can influence what they choose to focus on and lead to clustering around more attractive projects.

Unless you have both relatively equal gender laws and decent rule of law, female entrepreneurship is very low