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A soccer based intervention for adolescent boys and a goal setting intervention for adolescent girls lower intimate partner violence. They work in different ways.
Improving property rights can improve the allocation of resources and create a more financially inclusive society.
An experiment in rural Tanzania tests the impact of a phonebook app that connects rural firms to customers and suppliers.
This is a guest post by Joachim De Weerdt, Kathleen Beegle and Stefan Dercon.
Last Sunday many (but not all) countries around the world celebrated father’s day, but what does the development…
Update (January 22, 2019): The paper discussed in this post has subsequently been published in the journal World Development. Cash transfers seem to be everywhere. A recent statistic suggests…
A whirlwind, surely incomplete tour of cash transfer impacts on health Your run-of-the-mill conditional cash transfer (CCT) program has significant impacts on health-seeking behavior. Specifically…
One of the most cited of Martin Ravallion’s many papers implores researchers to “look beyond averages” if they want to better understand development processes. One fruitful area in which this…
This is the eleventh in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. When men desire nearly three times as many additional children as their wives and possess most of the decision-…
Popular data Nighttime lights satellite imagery (DMSP-NTL) are now a popular data source among economists. In a sentence, these imagery encompass almost all inhabited areas of the globe, and…
This is the third in our series of posts by students on the job market this year.Puzzling Results: Economists tend to believe that travel and trade costs reduce welfare. Trade papers like Irwin (…