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Electricity and firm productivity: A general equilibrium approach

Eliminating power outages in the developing world would substantially raise firm productivity and worker wages in the long run

Energy & Environment

Stephie Fried David Lagakos

Published

10.07.20

How refugees boost business growth in hosting locations

A large influx of Syrian refugees in Turkey induced substantial increments in Turkish firm production and entry, with variation in effects across firm size and sectors

Migration & Urbanisation

Sandra Rozo Onur Altındağ Ozan Bakis

Published

06.07.20

How remittances affect long-run economic change in rural labour markets

International labour migration and related remittances increase human capital attainment in rural areas, and over the long run trigger a shift of jobs out of farming towards the service sector

Migration & Urbanisation

Taryn Dinkelman

Published

29.06.20

Something to complain about: How minority representatives overcome ethnic barriers

Access to formal complaints technologies improves minorities’ strategic bargaining power within local government and improves public good provision

Institutions & Political Economy

M R Sharan Chinmaya Kumar

Published

26.06.20

Boosting firm productivity through joining multinational supply chains

Domestic firms that start supplying to multinational corporations see their productivity grow between 6% and 9%

Alonso Alfaro Ureña Isabela Manelici Jose P. Vasquez

Published

19.06.20

Measuring the productivity of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa

Collecting data using multiple survey methods can mitigate data errors that magnify the differences between low- and high-productivity farms

Casey Maue Marshall Burke Kyle Emerick

Published

15.06.20

Social ties and ‘hometown favouritism’ towards local officials in China

Hometown auditors report lower suspicious expenditures, implying that social ties are associated with greater leniency

Institutions & Political Economy

Raymond Fisman Yongxiang Wang Jian Chu Songtao Tan

Published

12.06.20

Ethnic stratification: A new measure to predict social conflict

A new index of ethnic stratification reveals that ethnic differences matter for conflict if, and only if, they coincide with economic differences

Institutions & Political Economy

Roland Hodler Sorawoot Srisuma Alberto Vesperoni Noémie Zurlinden

Published

08.06.20

The impacts of agribusiness-led development on farming incomes and profits

A shift from a state-led to an agribusiness-led development model in Kenya reallocated profits away from farmers towards agribusiness firms

Swati Dhingra Silvana Tenreyro

Published

05.06.20