Thank you for your patronage: Discretionary appointments and bureaucrat performance Data on the British Empire show patronage in civil service appointments was a good system for those who got jobs but bad news for almost everyone else Public Economics Guo Xu Published 10.08.17
Designing more effective resettlement programs: Lessons from transmigration in Indonesia Better matching between transmigrants’ origin and destination agroclimate and languages can substantially improve productivity and integration Migration & Urbanisation Samuel Bazzi Arya Gaduh Alexander Rothenberg Maisy Wong Published 08.08.17
Generating SMEs through a business plan competition in Nigeria An experiment in Nigeria suggests that business plan competitions can effectively identify entrepreneurs capable of utilising capital to spur growth Firms David McKenzie Published 07.08.17
Interfirm relationships and business performance in China Regular meetings between the managers of young firms in Nanchang, China increased revenue and improved a broad range of performance measures Firms Jing Cai Adam Szeidl Published 02.08.17
The value of face-to-face: Search and contracting problems in Nigerian trade The costs paid by traders traveling to source goods reveal that information problems pose almost as much of a barrier to trade as shipping and regulatory costs combined Trade Meredith Startz Published 31.07.17
Caste and economic mobility in India Caste networks play a crucial role in shaping economic mobility in India and can either support or hinder mobility, depending on the circumstances Labour Markets Kaivan Munshi Published 28.07.17
The economic and the social: Anatomy of a contract change in India Productivity rose among tea pluckers when their base wages increased, despite a fall in monetary incentives, but this response vanishes within months Firms Rajshri Jayaraman Debraj Ray Published 26.07.17
How to reform a government investment agency: Insights from Ethiopia Professor John Sutton shares insights, from his collaborations with sub-Saharan African governments, on setting up effective investment agencies Institutions & Political Economy John Sutton Published 24.07.17
Chinese investment in Africa Chinese investment in Africa, while less extensive than often assumed, has the potential to generate jobs and development on the continent Finance Margaret McMillan Published 21.07.17
