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Development economics, research to practice @bjorkmanmartina M Callen @cesicruz @LagakosDavid J Naritomi @oliverhanney @emaansiddique @cepr_org @The_IGC PEDL
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Joined January 2017
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Sanitation Infrastructure is out now!. Senior Editors @AugsburgBritta @TheIFS, @MollyMLipscomb @UVABatten & @afosterri @Brown_Economics systematically review economic research on sanitation infrastructure. Read and download here:
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Agricultural modernisation in Brazil has driven economic growth but also intensified land inequality and redistributive conflict. Read this week's article to learn more:
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Peer-led endorsement doubled mobile banking uptake and increased formal savings among women in Ghana. Read this week's article to learn more:
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Using detailed data from a major call centre in Turkey, researchers find that a permanent shift to fully remote work boosts recruitment and productivity without harming service quality. Read this week's article to learn more:
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“If a girl misses school every month or a woman avoids certain jobs because of inadequate sanitation or fear of stigma, that’s a constraint on human capital and productivity.” @castrofsilvia (@ECONMunich) this week on #VoxDevTalks:
🆕 Managing menstrual hygiene: The economics of period poverty 📢. Today on #VoxDevTalks, @castrofsilvia (@ECONMunich) & @KristinaCzura (@univgroningen) explain how menstrual hygiene is just as much an economic concern as it is a public health one:
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Firm productivity rises in privately run Indian SEZs but stagnates in public ones, suggesting that political interference fuels rent-seeking behaviour. Read this week's article to learn more:
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Evidence from China—one of the world’s largest suppliers of carbon offset projects—suggests that non-additional offsets (i.e. those that would have happened anyway) can in fact exacerbate environmental damages. Read this week's article to learn more:
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China’s South-North Water Diversion Project delivered substantial agricultural and economic gains to water-receiving regions, with limited costs to source areas. Read this week's article to learn more:
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Can participatory budgeting build government legitimacy and increase tax revenues in weak states?. Last month on VoxDev w/ Kevin Grieco @IASToulouse, @abkamara50 @The_IGC, @nmeriggi @Oxford_CSAE, @jmichel_ucla @hkbaptistu & @WilsonPrichard @munkschool:
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Evidence from Sierra Leone shows that digital participatory budgeting can increase government legitimacy in weak states but only increases tax compliance for supporters of the incumbent government.
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Tariff cuts in India reduced firms’ reliance on political connections, lowering politically driven misallocation and addressing a common source of inefficiency. Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections. Today on VoxDev, @SJavervall (@kielinstitute) & @RozaKhoban (@econ_uzh) discuss how tariff cuts in India reduced firms' reliance on political connections:
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This week we featured research on carbon offsets, Special Economic Zones, remote work and more. Read a summary of this work here:
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This week we featured research on carbon offsets, Special Economic Zones, remote work and more...
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🆕 How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections. Today on VoxDev, @SJavervall (@kielinstitute) & @RozaKhoban (@econ_uzh) discuss how tariff cuts in India reduced firms' reliance on political connections:
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Tariff cuts in India reduced firms’ reliance on political connections, lowering politically driven misallocation and addressing a common source of inefficiency.
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RT @iea_we: Making laws isn't enough. Brazilian cities with STRICT enforcement of smoking bans saw massive drops in smoking. Cities with w….
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Between 2009 and 2013, several Brazilian states and state capitals adopted strict smoking bans; this was followed by a national-level ban in 2014. Comprehensive bans and strict enforcement were...
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Can governments promote long-term employment through wage subsidies? Lessons from North Macedonia. Last week on VoxDev w/ @ARMANDalex (@NovaSBE), @carneiro_econ (@EconUCL), Federico Tagliati (@BancoDeEspana) & Yiming Xia (@SWUFE1925):
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A government-led programme in North Macedonia combined wage subsidies with matching services to decrease long-term unemployment among vulnerable jobseekers. Experimental evidence indicates that the...
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Can quality signalling boost demand for solar technologies?. Last month on VoxDev, Aidan Coville (@wb_research), @GraffZivin (@GPS_UCSD), Arndt Reichert (@UniHannover) & @AnnReitmann (@RennesUniv) outlined research on Senegal:
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Despite the potential of solar power in sub-Saharan Africa, many rural households opt for low-quality solar products due to lack of affordability and information. A field experiment in Senegal shows...
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Building cognitive endurance: How a simple change in the school day can transform attentional capacity. Last month on VoxDev w/ @christinalbrown (@UChi_Economics), @supKaur (@berkeleyecon), Geeta Gandhi Kingdon (@IOE_London) & @h_schof (@CornellMBA):
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Promoting sustained effortful mental activity in Indian primary schools markedly improved student cognitive and educational outcomes across a wide range of subjects.
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Agricultural modernisation in Brazil has driven economic growth but also intensified land inequality and redistributive conflict. Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 The two faces of agricultural modernisation: How modern farming causes conflict. Today on VoxDev, Stefano Falcone (Institute for Economic Analysis) & @Miche_Rosenberg (@UoE_Economics) outline research on Brazil:
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RT @vox_dev: 🆕 The two faces of agricultural modernisation: How modern farming causes conflict. Today on VoxDev, Stefano Falcone (Institute….
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Agricultural modernisation in Brazil has driven economic growth but also intensified land inequality and redistributive conflict. As capital-intensive farming expands, it displaces rural communities...
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RT @vox_dev: 🆕 Incentives versus endorsement: How to boost digital banking adoption and savings. Today on VoxDev, @EmmaRiley19 (@umichECON)….
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Peer-led endorsement doubled mobile banking uptake and increased formal savings among women in Ghana.
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Peer-led endorsement doubled mobile banking uptake and increased formal savings among women in Ghana. Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 Incentives versus endorsement: How to boost digital banking adoption and savings. Today on VoxDev, @EmmaRiley19 (@umichECON), @Abu_Shonchoy (@FIU) & @RdoseiOsei (@UnivofGh) discuss how peer-led endorsement doubled mobile banking uptake in Ghana:
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🆕 The two faces of agricultural modernisation: How modern farming causes conflict. Today on VoxDev, Stefano Falcone (Institute for Economic Analysis) & @Miche_Rosenberg (@UoE_Economics) outline research on Brazil:
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Agricultural modernisation in Brazil has driven economic growth but also intensified land inequality and redistributive conflict. As capital-intensive farming expands, it displaces rural communities...
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