Improving shock-coping with savings: The case of transactional sex Mobile banking to increase personal savings reduces the use of transactional sex for shock-coping among vulnerable women in Kenya Finance Kelly Jones Erick Gong Published 19.07.19
HIV testing and risky sexual behaviour What is the likely impact of unexpected HIV test results on risky sexual behaviour? Health Erick Gong Published 15.05.19
Can climate change make us antisocial? How is global warming likely to impact our behaviour and how we interact with one another? Energy & Environment Edward Miguel Published 24.04.19
The limits of rural electrification Kenya's work connecting rural communities to the national electricity grid allows us to examine the impact of electrification on people's lives Energy & Environment Kenneth Lee Edward Miguel Catherine Wolfram Published 18.01.19
Agricultural productivity and rural-urban wage gaps revisited: Lessons from panel data Cities don't make workers (much) more productive, but productive workers move to cities Migration & Urbanisation Joan Hicks Marieke Kleemans Nicholas Li Edward Miguel Published 30.07.18
Law of the land: Ethnic patronage in Kenya’s slums Slum tenants face higher rents and lower investments when their landlord and chief share ethnicity, while gaining when their chief is a co-ethnic Infrastructure Benjamin Marx Tavneet Suri Thomas Stoker Nidhi Parekh Published 11.05.18
Kinship taxation and firm growth: Evidence from Kenya Pressure to share income with relatives, acting as a ‘kinship tax’, can discourage productive activity by impeding firm growth Firms Munir Squires Published 08.05.18
Infrequent payments as a saving device Dairy farmers have high demand for infrequent payments, which help save. Poor enforcement, however, limits competition in the supply of these payments. Finance Lorenzo Casaburi Rocco Macchiavello Published 09.04.18
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