Evidence from Uganda suggests that natural disasters can reduce income and life satisfaction for years, especially when households are displaced without their social networks.

A large-scale randomised evaluation found that offering rural Kenyans information about earnings in the capital city increased migration and income.

Valuing the time of the self-employed is crucial for evaluating interventions and conducting cost-benefit analysis. Yet research often misprices this value at zero or equal to market wages. New evidence from Kenya suggests a practical fix: value unpa...

Policy changes that raise aggregate welfare, but whose benefits are unevenly distributed, are often politically unfeasible. Politicians may recognise the overall gains from refugee integration, for example, but block visas or permits due to local peo...