Cash transfers improve food security for up to two years, but without an increase in food expenditures and non-agricultural income

Electronic tax filing lowers compliance costs for firms while reducing the gap in tax revenues between those firms more likely vs less likely to evade

How did the Londö public works programme in the Central African Republic affect participants' welfare?

Highly competitive examinations for public service recruitment in India have detrimental economic effects

Family ties to non-elected bureaucrats distort public employment outcomes, and standard anti-nepotism policies are ineffective at preventing their...

Data-driven targeting can make social assistance less subject to favouritism, more pro-poor, and more politically sustainable

Conditional cash transfer programmes can have long-term benefits by reducing crime, lowering adolescent fertility and increasing school attendance as...

When eligible for unemployment benefits, workers and firms make strategic layoffs in the presence of informal labour markets