Institutions & Political Economy

Government use of prison labour can distort incentives for incarceration and have lasting negative effects on trust in legal institutions like police

Published 03.08.20

Access to formal complaints technologies improves minorities’ strategic bargaining power within local government and improves public good provision

Published 26.06.20

Hometown auditors report lower suspicious expenditures, implying that social ties are associated with greater leniency

Published 12.06.20

A new index of ethnic stratification reveals that ethnic differences matter for conflict if, and only if, they coincide with economic differences

Published 08.06.20

Can the linguistic structure of our mother tongue train us to see the world in terms of masculine and feminine?

Published 13.05.20

How can governments in developing countries best ensure widespread and effective social protection in light of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Published 06.05.20

How can we best protect the most vulnerable in the developing world during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Published 29.04.20

The relationship between intensity of reporting on violence and tourist spending suggests that a bad news bias can have serious economic consequences

Published 03.04.20

Economic integration can help promote transition to democracy within the world’s more autocratic countries through trade with democratic partners

Published 16.03.20