Public Economics
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One problem with giving aid to small villages
How do cash transfers impact prices? Evidence from rural Mexico
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Decentralisation under changing state capacity: Experimental evidence from Paraguay
Decentralising the monitoring of public sector workers is cost-effective, but as central state capacity increases this advantage disappears
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Does higher pay attract better applicants? Evidence from a Ugandan NGO
Financial incentives to community health promoters attract more applicants at the expense of crowding out pro-social preferences
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Do property rights exacerbate son preference?
Affording tenants in India property rights on the land they farmed exacerbated son preference, resulting in fewer girls surviving to the age of one
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Ideas for development
Robin Burgess on motivating civil servants, breaking the poverty trap by increasing productivity, and the political economy of electricity
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Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals
Elliott Harris on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); their vision, policy implications, financing strategy, and the way forward
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Feedback rating to decrease bribery: Evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic
Anonymous rating of inspectors can decrease bribes and increase tax revenues as long as it takes into account market structure considerations
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Evidence to practice: Understanding the audience, context, and indirect effects
Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary General at the UNEP, shares two examples of designing policy.*
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Childcare and development
The benefits of early childcare are well-known. Orazio Attanasio looks at the different mechanisms to effectively deliver childcare at scale.