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2021
w28845 Laura Chioda
David Contreras-Loya
Paul Gertler
Dana Carney

Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
w28844 John J. Conlon
Malavika Mani
Gautam Rao
Matthew W. Ridley
Frank Schilbach

Learning in the Household
w28830 Zhibo Tan
Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

Deadly Discrimination: Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety
w28821 Eduardo Montero
Dean Yang

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from Catholic Saint Day Festivals in Mexico
w28818 Susanna B. Berkouwer
Pierre E. Biscaye
Steven L. Puller
Catherine Wolfram

Disbursing Emergency Relief through Utilities: Evidence from Ghana
w28814 Edward L. Glaeser
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?
w28813 Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska
Vincenzo Atella
Jay Bhattacharya
Grant Miller

The Changing Relationship between Bodyweight and Longevity in High- and Low-Income Countries
w28807 Louise Guillouet
Amit Khandelwal
Rocco Macchiavello
Matthieu Teachout

Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
w28794 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Chicheng Ma
Yuchen Xu

The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
w28792 Sebastian Heise
Tommaso Porzio

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
w28780 Alejandro J. Ganimian
Karthik Muralidharan
Christopher R. Walters

Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India
w28734 Jason Abaluck
Laura H Kwong
Ashley Styczynski
Ashraful Haque
Md. Alamgir Kabir
Ellen Bates-Jefferys
Emily Crawford
Jade Benjamin-Chung
Salim Benhachmi
Shabib Raihan
Shadman Rahman
Neeti Zaman
Peter J. Winch
Md. Maqsud Hossain
Hasan Mahmud Reza
Stephen P. Luby
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh
w28730 Kazi Iqbal
Asadul Islam
John A. List
Vy Nguyen

Myopic Loss Aversion and Investment Decisions: from the Laboratory to the Field
w28728 Martin Ravallion
On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
w28726 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Suresh Dalpath
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Matthew O. Jackson
Harini Kannan
Francine N. Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
w28724 Paul Gertler
Brett Green
Catherine Wolfram

Digital Collateral
w28720 George A. Alessandria
Robert C. Johnson
Kei-Mu Yi

Perspectives on Trade and Structural Transformation
w28716 Dean Yang
James Allen IV
Arlete Mahumane
James Riddell IV
Hang Yu

Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing: An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
w28714 Gauthier Marchais
Christian M. Mugaruka
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

The Forging of a Rebel
w28699 Fiona Burlig
Anant Sudarshan
Garrison Schlauch

The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
w28698 Sebastian Galiani
Juan Pantano

Structural Models: Inception and Frontier
w28696 María Esther Caballero
Brian Cadena
Brian K. Kovak

The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks
w28686 Brian G. Knight
Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon
Ana Tribin

Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
w28683 Frederico Finan
Maurizio Mazzocco

Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
w28681 Julieta Caunedo
Elisa Keller
Yongseok Shin

Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum
w28667 Ying Bai
Ruixue Jia
Jiaojiao Yang

The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization
w28664 Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Alicia Marguerie
Patrick Premand

Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire
w28655 Benjamin Marx
Vincent Pons
Tavneet Suri

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
w28651 James Allen IV
Arlete Mahumane
James Riddell IV
Tanya Rosenblat
Dean Yang
Hang Yu

Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat COVID-19
w28650 Benjamin Enke
Uri Gneezy
Brian Hall
David C. Martin
Vadim Nelidov
Theo Offerman
Jeroen van de Ven

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
w28643 Emily Breza
Supreet Kaur
Yogita Shamdasani

Labor Rationing
w28641 Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Elan Satriawan
Sudarno Sumarto

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
w28640 Aloisio Araujo
Rafael Ferreira
Spyridon Lagaras
Flavio Moraes
Jacopo Ponticelli
Margarita Tsoutsoura

The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
w28637 Anne Brockmeyer
Alejandro Estefan
Karina Ramírez Arras
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato

Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico
w28635 Tiago V. Cavalcanti
Joseph P. Kaboski
Bruno S. Martins
Cezar Santos

Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
w28631 Soeren J. Henn
Christian Mastaki Mugaruka
Miguel Ortiz
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

On the Ends of the State: Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo
w28629 Alexander Chudik
M. Hashem Pesaran
Alessandro Rebucci

COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide: An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
w28626 Seema Jayachandran
Monica Biradavolu
Jan Cooper

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
w28623 Paul Bouscasse
Emi Nakamura
Jón Steinsson

When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870
w28611 Lasse Brune
Eric Chyn
Jason T. Kerwin

Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
w28610 Andres Gonzalez-Lira
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt
w28607 David McKenzie
Aakash Mohpal
Dean Yang

Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
w28603 Soeren J. Henn
James A. Robinson

Africa's Latent Assets
w28599 Peter M. DeMarzo
Zhiguo He
Fabrice Tourre

Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction
w28582 Yan Ji
Songyuan Teng
Robert Townsend

Branch Expansion versus Digital Banking: The Dynamics of Growth and Inequality in a Spatial Equilibrium Model
w28581 Samuel Berlinski
Matias Busso
Taryn Dinkelman
Claudia Martínez A.

Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages
w28566 Hanming Fang
Ziteng Lei
Liguo Lin
Peng Zhang

Family Companionship and Elderly Suicide: Evidence from the Chinese Lunar New Year
w28552 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Hernando Grueso

Student Learning in Online College Programs
w28551 Tianyu Fan
Michael Peters
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts
w28547 Ruixue Jia
Xiaohuan Lan
Gerard Padró I Miquel

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
w28541 Jaymee Sheng
Anup Malani
Ashish Goel
Purushotham Botla

Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?
w28536 Alina Carare
Carlos de Resende
Andrew T. Levin
Chelsea Zhang

Do Monetary Policy Frameworks Matter in Low Income Countries?
w28516 Gabriel E. Kreindler
Yuhei Miyauchi

Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records
w28507 Lucie Gadenne
Samuel Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
w28504 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei

Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus
w28486 Gaurav Chiplunkar
Pinelopi K. Goldberg

Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
w28462 Guilhem Cassan
Daniel Keniston
Tatjana Kleineberg

A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India
w28458 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobón

Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
w28453 Anton Korinek
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development
w28443 Erica M. Field
Elisa M. Maffioli

Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
w28435 Anusha Chari
Lakshita Jain
Nirupama Kulkarni

The Unholy Trinity: Regulatory Forbearance, Stressed Banks and Zombie Firms
w28433 Banu Demir
Ana Cecília Fieler
Daniel Xu
Kelly Kaili Yang

O-Ring Production Networks
w28423 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Robert M. Townsend

From Micro to Macro Development
w28421 Heitor S. Pellegrina
Sebastian Sotelo

Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West
w28401 Gaurav Khanna
Wenquan Liang
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Ran Song

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
w28393 Edward Asiedu
Dean Karlan
Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
Christopher R. Udry

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
w28392 Angus Deaton
COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality
w28391 Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Costas Meghir
Gabriel Ulyssea

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
w28370 Martin Ravallion
Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
w28365 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson
Cynthia Kinnan

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
w28359 Tyler Daun
Sebastian Galiani
Gustavo Torrens

Populism, Protectionism, and Political Instability
w28344 Xinshen Diao
Mia Ellis
Margaret S. McMillan
Dani Rodrik

Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
w28338 Supreet Kaur
Sendhil Mullainathan
Suanna Oh
Frank Schilbach

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
w28337 Cecile Gaubert
Patrick M. Kline
Danny Yagan

Place-Based Redistribution
w28336 Renata Lemos
Karthik Muralidharan
Daniela Scur

Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India
w28332 Xavier Devictor
Quy-Toan Do
Andrei A. Levchenko

The Globalization of Refugee Flows
w28323 Nicolás de Roux
Marcela Eslava
Santiago Franco
Eric Verhoogen

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
w28318 Rosangela Bando
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler

Another brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
w28316 Anne E. Fitzpatrick
Sabrin A. Beg
Laura C. Derksen
Anne Karing
Jason T. Kerwin
Adrienne Lucas
Natalia Ordaz Reynoso
Munir Squires

Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
2020
w28313 Gordon H. Hanson
Who Will Fill China's Shoes? The Global Evolution of Labor-Intensive Manufacturing
w28299 Zach Y. Brown
Eduardo Montero
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Market Structure and Extortion:Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
w28297 Sebastian Ottinger
Nico Voigtländer

History's Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
w28291 Michael Lokshin
Vladimir Kolchin
Martin Ravallion

Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
w28279 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
w28273 Shane Lubold
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Tyler H. McCormick

Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models through Analysis of Curvature
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w28267 Robert Ainsworth
Rajeev Dehejia
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Miguel Urquiola

Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added
w28263 Rodrigo Adão
Paul Carrillo
Arnaud Costinot
Dave Donaldson
Dina Pomeranz

International Trade and Earnings Inequality: A New Factor Content Approach
w28262 Seth Garz
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Rafe Mazer
Caitlin Sanford
Jonathan Zinman

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives
w28251 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Away from Home and Back: Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
w28249 Emily Breza
Martin Kanz
Leora F. Klapper

Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts
w28243 Eoin F. McGuirk
Nathan Nunn

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
w28230 Charlotte Bartels
Simon Jäger
Natalie Obergruber

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
w28212 Ş. Pelin Akyol
Naci H. Mocan

Education and Consanguineous Marriage
w28205 Noam Angrist
Peter Bergman
Moitshepi Matsheng

School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using "Low-Tech" in a Pandemic
w28180 Nicola Bianchi
Yi Lu
Hong Song

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students' Long-Term Development
w28177 Angus Deaton
Paul Schreyer

GDP, Wellbeing, and Health: Thoughts on the 2017 Round of the International Comparison Program
w28171 Yang Jiao
Shang-Jin Wei

Natural Barriers and Policy Barriers
w28170 Chong-En Bai
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Zheng Michael Song
Xin Wang

Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
w28168 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines
w28166 Claire E. Boone
Pablo A. Celhay
Paul Gertler
Tadeja Gracner
Josefina Rodriguez

How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency
w28163 Bruno Conte
Klaus Desmet
Dávid Krisztián Nagy
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World
w28147 Shaohua Chen
Martin Ravallion

Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China
w28138 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

We are all Behavioral, More or Less: A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making
w28129 Karthik Muralidharan
Abhijeet Singh

Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
w28120 Cornelia Ilin
Sébastien E. Annan-Phan
Xiao Hui Tai
Shikhar Mehra
Solomon M. Hsiang
Joshua E. Blumenstock

Public Mobility Data Enables COVID-19 Forecasting and Management at Local and Global Scales
w28113 Alberto Bisin
Andrea Moro

LATE for History
w28106 Johannes Haushofer
Robert Mudida
Jeremy P. Shapiro

The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being
w28100 Jie Bai
Maggie Chen
Jin Liu
Daniel Yi Xu

Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
w28089 Cynthia Kinnan
Krislert Samphantharak
Robert Townsend
Diego A. Vera Cossio

Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks
w28085 Matthew Goodkin-Gold
Michael Kremer
Christopher M. Snyder
Heidi L. Williams

Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases
w28080 Xavier Cirera
Diego A. Comin
Marcio Cruz
Kyung Min Lee

Technology Within and Across Firms
w28078 Marcella Alsan
Katherine Eriksson
Gregory Niemesh

Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
w28074 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Garima Sharma

Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
w28070 J. Vernon Henderson
Adam Storeygard
David N. Weil

Quality-adjusted Population Density
w28051 Zhao Chen
Yuxuan He
Zhikuo Liu
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
Daniel Yi Xu

The Structure of Business Taxation in China
w28049 Alison Andrew
Orazio Attanasio
Britta Augsburg
Jere Behrman
Monimalika Day
Pamela Jervis
Costas Meghir
Angus Phimister

Mothers' Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
w28045 Esther Rolf
Jonathan Proctor
Tamma Carleton
Ian Bolliger
Vaishaal Shankar
Miyabi Ishihara
Benjamin Recht
Solomon Hsiang

A Generalizable and Accessible Approach to Machine Learning with Global Satellite Imagery
w28042 Sylvain Chassang
Lucia Del Carpio
Samuel Kapon

Making the Most of Limited Government Capacity: Theory and Experiment
w28040 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Paul Gertler
Nozomi Nakajima
Harry Patrinos

Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments
w28013 Carlos Garriga
Aaron Hedlund
Yang Tang
Ping Wang

Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
w28011 Samantha Horn
Julian Jamison
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Does Lasting Behavior Change Require Knowledge Change? Evidence From Savings Interventions For Young Adults
w28000 Ruochen Dai
Dilip Mookherjee
Yingyue Quan
Xiaobo Zhang

Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China
w27983 Jing Hang
Pravin Krishna
Heiwai Tang

Input-Output Networks and Misallocation
w27962 Bryan S. Graham
Sparse Network Asymptotics for Logistic Regression
w27955 Natalie Bau
Adrien Matray

Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India
w27932 Shilpa Aggarwal
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
David Sungho Park
Jonathan Robinson
Alan Spearot

Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi
w27919 Douglas A. Irwin
The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution
w27893 Sara Lowes
Eduardo Montero

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
w27887 Kehinde F. Ajayi
Willa H. Friedman
Adrienne M. Lucas

When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
w27879 Marshall Burke
Anne Driscoll
David Lobell
Stefano Ermon

Using Satellite Imagery to Understand and Promote Sustainable Development
w27870 Shawn Cole
Martin Melecky
Florian Mölders
Tristan Reed

Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
w27860 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Behavioral Biases are Temporally Stable
w27846 Lisa Cameron
Jennifer Seager
Manisha Shah

Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
w27839 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Measuring Property Rights Institutions
w27832 Nikita Melnikov
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
w27818 Eliana Avitzour
Adi Choen
Daphna Joel
Victor Lavy

On the Origins of Gender-Biased Behavior: The Role of Explicit and Implicit Stereotypes
w27812 Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Michele Giannola
Milagros Nores

Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions
w27808 Martin Ravallion
On the Origins of the Idea of Ending Poverty
w27806 David O. Argente
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Munseob Lee

Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US
w27801 Daniel Ovando
Gary D. Libecap
Katherine D. Millage
Lennon Thomas

Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing: Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
w27799 Ila Fazzio
Alex Eble
Robin L. Lumsdaine
Peter Boone
Baboucarr Bouy
Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh
Chitra Jayanty
Simon Johnson
Ana Filipa Silva

Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau
w27793 Andrin Pelican
Bryan S. Graham

An Optimal Test for Strategic Interaction in Social and Economic Network Formation between Heterogeneous Agents
w27767 Pei-Ju Liao
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong Kee Yip

To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
w27750 Eric C. Edwards
Martin Fiszbein
Gary D. Libecap

Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production: the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared
w27731 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Martí Mestieri
Daniel G. O'Connor

The Stable Transformation Path
w27708 Anusha Chari
Peter Blair Henry
Hector Reyes

The Baker Hypothesis
w27706 Nathan Nunn
History as Evolution
w27696 Minu Philip
Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian

Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
w27681 Carolina Corral
Xavier Giné
Aprajit Mahajan
Enrique Seira

Autonomy and Specificity in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mexico
w27680 Jing Cai
Shing-Yi Wang

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
w27679 Yuan Tian
Maria Esther Caballero
Brian K. Kovak

Social Learning along International Migrant Networks
w27678 Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Syed Ali Hasanain
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Arman B. Rezaee

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
w27675 Anusha Chari
Jennifer S. Rhee

The Return to Capital in Capital-Scarce Countries
w27670 Remi Jedwab
Adam Storeygard

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010
w27665 Zhiguo He
Maggie Rong Hu
Zhenping Wang
Vincent Yao

Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty
w27662 Jonas Hjort
Vinayak Iyer
Golvine de Rochambeau

Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms
w27656 Richard Hornbeck
Dust Bowl Migrants: Identifying an Archetype
w27644 Jie Bai
Panle Jia Barwick
Shengmao Cao
Shanjun Li

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry
w27636 Samuel S. Bird
Michael R. Carter
Travis J. Lybbert
Mary Mathenge
Timothy Njagi
Emilia Tjernström

Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
w27628 Hanming Fang
Chang Liu
Li-An Zhou

Window Dressing in the Public Sector: A Case Study of China's Compulsory Education Promotion Program
w27620 Brian G. Knight
Ana Tribin

Immigration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border
w27611 Joan Hamory
Edward Miguel
Michael W. Walker
Michael Kremer
Sarah J. Baird

Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
w27609 Clément de Chaisemartin
Jaime Ramirez-Cuellar

At What Level Should One Cluster Standard Errors in Paired Experiments, and in Stratified Experiments with Small Strata?
w27606 Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff

Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
w27600 Angus Deaton
Randomization in the Tropics Revisited: a Theme and Eleven Variations
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27583 Lasse Brune
Dean Karlan
Sikandra Kurdi
Christopher R. Udry

Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
w27570 Pascaline Dupas
Basimenye Nhlema
Zachary Wagner
Aaron Wolf
Emily Wroe

Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
w27569 Aidan Coville
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Susumu Yoshida

Enforcing Payment for Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi's Slums
w27564 Quentin Stoeffler
Michael Carter
Catherine Guirkinger
Wouter Gelade

The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso
w27562 Saravana Ravindran
Manisha Shah

Unintended Consequences of Lockdowns: COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic
w27561 Gang Liu
Barbara M. Fraumeni

A Brief Introduction to Human Capital Measures
w27554 Martin Ravallion
Should the Randomistas (Continue to) Rule?
w27549 Caitlin S. Brown
Martin Ravallion

Inequality and the Coronavirus: Socioeconomic Covariates of Behavioral Responses and Viral Outcomes Across US Counties
w27548 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Adriana D. Kugler
Mikko I. Silliman

Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
w27530 Carl T. Kitchens
Luke P. Rodgers

The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility
w27513 Eric V. Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight

Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls
w27511 Benjamin Enke
Ricardo Rodríguez-Padilla
Florian Zimmermann

Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
w27506 Yannay Spitzer
Gaspare Tortorici
Ariell Zimran

International Migration Responses to Natural Disasters: Evidence from Modern Europe's Deadliest Earthquake
w27503 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France
w27496 Abhijit Banerjee
Marcella Alsan
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Abhijit Chowdhury
Esther Duflo
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Benjamin A. Olken

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities
w27484 Eric A. Hanushek
Lavinia Kinne
Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann

Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
w27479 Christian Dippel
Dustin Frye
Bryan Leonard

Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment
w27475 Hanming Fang
Long Wang
Yang Yang

Competition and Quality: Evidence from High-Speed Railways and Airlines
w27473 Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan

Rationing the Commons
w27456 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Monica Martinez-Bravo

Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
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Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
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Foreign Aid and State Capacity
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Nils T. Enevoldsen
Rohini Pande
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Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
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Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information
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Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
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Reforming Inefficient Energy Pricing: Evidence from China
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Unpacking Household Engel Curves
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Giovanni Compiani

A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
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Ruba Ajeeb
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Trust and Saving in Financial Institutions
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Network-Based Hiring: Local Benefits; Global Costs
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Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals
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Jonathan D. Levin
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Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience
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A Method to Construct Geographical Crosswalks with an Application to US Counties since 1790
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Historical Natural Experiments: Bridging Economics and Economic History
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Frank Schilbach
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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
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Sandip Sukhtankar

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
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Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries
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Nicholas Otis
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Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy
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Henrik Kleven
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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
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John Loeser
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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
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Sara Al-Rashood
Ina Ganguli
Basit Zafar

Information and Social Norms: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Aspirations of Saudi Women
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Robert Kaestner
Wei Lyu
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Child Health
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Hanming Fang

The State of Mental Health Among the Elderly Chinese
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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
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Growth, Automation and the Long Run Share of Labor
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Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms: Evidence from China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
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Evan D. Peet
Duncan Thomas

Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior
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Forhad Shilpi
M. Helal Uddin

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

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