The changing economy: Going factory-free The developed world is deindustrialising. What does this mean and how has globalisation impacted this process? Firms Lionel Fontagné Ann Harrison Published 05.03.18
A toxic environment: Rapid growth, pollution and migration Pollution is driving the young and well-educated out of China's cities Migration & Urbanisation Shuai Chen Paulina Oliva Peng Zhang Published 02.03.18
Quality doesn't speak for itself: Evidence from the Senegalese onion market Agriculture market reforms that allow quality recognition enable farmers to capture higher prices and lead to adoption of better technology Agriculture Tanguy Bernard Alain De Janvry Samba Mbaye Elisabeth Sadoulet Published 27.02.18
The Alibaba effect: Spatial inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations Firms Jingting Fan Lixin Tang Weiming Zhu Ben Zou Published 23.02.18
Learning from drunk and absent policemen in Kenya Historical data from Kenya show that when an ethnic group gains power, public servants of that group may be emboldened to misbehave Institutions & Political Economy Alexander Moradi Oliver Vanden Eynde Patrick M Kuhn Published 22.02.18
Let their people come: Migrants as drivers of knowledge diffusion Migration, particularly skilled migration, is a driver of knowledge diffusion and it can induce productivity shifts as measured by new exports Migration & Urbanisation Dany Bahar Hillel Rapoport Published 19.02.18
Is inequality underestimated in Egypt? Evidence from house prices Evidence from the housing market suggests inequality is being substantially underestimated in Egypt, by about 33% Methods & Measurement Roy Van der Weide Christoph Lakner Elena Ianchovichina Published 16.02.18
Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from Uruguay How does information about tax audits affect tax evasion? Firms do increase their tax compliance but this response is not necessarily rational. Public Economics Marcelo Bergolo Rodrigo Ceni Guillermo Cruces Matias Giaccobasso Ricardo Perez-Truglia Published 15.02.18
Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts Labour Markets Oriana Bandiera Vittorio Bassi Robin Burgess Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Anna Vitali Published 13.02.18
