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Adopting an algorithm improves tax equity when bureaucrats undervalue the wealth of the richest. Guest blog by Justine Knebelmann.
This post by a PhD job market candidate looks at the impacts of a major indigenization reform in Nigeria's oil market
Business training is popular, but impacts can be limited. A new experiment shows how an alternative approach to improving business skills in firms can be more successful: helping entrepreneurs use…
international quality standards; agriculture
When I started working on HIV, behavior change campaigns were quite in vogue. The idea was if you bombarded folks with enough information, maybe even made them watch a movie or two, they would…
Let’s start with a little quiz. Grab a piece of paper and pencil. What’s the share of legal immigrants in the US population? (or you can choose the Germany, UK, Italy, Sweden or France). A…
A child has a fever. Her father rushes to his community’s clinic, his daughter in his arms. He waits. A nurse asks him questions and examines his child. She gives him advice and perhaps a…
Business plan competitions have increasingly become one policy option used to identify and support high-growth potential businesses. For example, the World Bank has helped design and support these…
I was at a conference a couple of years ago and a senior colleague, one who I deeply respect, summarized the conversation as: “our labor data are crap.” I think he meant that we have a general…
This post is coauthored with Alaka Holla The rigorous evidence on vocational training programs is, at best, mixed. For example, Markus recently blogged about some work looking at long term…