Data on prices and quantities of consumer packaged goods suggest that Mexican real consumption relative to the US is larger than previously estimated

A note from Tavneet Suri, our Editor-in-Chief, on our three-year anniversary

How can economists better communicate with the wider public to regain the profession’s credibility?

A year prematurely lost is as bad as a year spent in poverty. Aggregating these indices offers a more accurate insight into the progress of nations

Data from developing country settings highlight the risk of misinterpreting non-cognitive skills and personality using existing measures

RCTs have revolutionised development policy, but do the interventions that work in the short run have a benefit 10 or 20 years later?

The Nobel nomination’s emphasis on the practical applications of Banerjee’s, Duflo’s and Kremer’s methods represents a monumental and welcome change

Despite limitations, the use of randomised control trials has led to a paradigm shift in development policy evaluation

Why have Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics? And what does this mean for development...