This week we featured research on climate migration, parenting, women-only transport and more...
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Hi all,
On Monday, we announced our next webinar, a collaboration with J-PAL on tracking impact in development - register here. On April 8th at 1pm UK time, Paddy Carter, Aparna Krishnan and Arianna Legovini will discuss how development organisations can track their impact.
Population displacement may become an obvious adaptation margin to climate change in vulnerable regions like sub-Saharan Africa. In today’s article, Bruno Conte explores how market integration can play an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change via trade and migration liberalisation.
Home visitation and group meeting parenting programmes have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but are too expensive to be delivered at large scale. Irma Arteaga, Andreas de Barros, and Alejandro J. Ganimian outline evidence from a child-rearing programme using automated phone calls in India, shedding light on the challenges of scaling up interventions that improve parenting practices.
How are Zambians utilising mobile money? What effect does mobile money have on rural poverty? Could tax changes slow mobile money growth? Tyler Rossow takes the evidence from our VoxDevLit on Mobile Money to the Zambian context in yesterday's article.
A lack of safe transportation prevents women in urban Pakistan from entering the labour market. In this week’s episode of VoxDevTalks, Kate Vyborny discusses how a programme providing subsidised, women-only transport was able to tap into a large pool of female workers, improving mobility and economic empowerment.
From a development perspective, frequent short-lived climate shocks are a cause for concern, as they distract firms from engaging in upgrading efforts by hindering investment. Maria Bas provides evidence from Ecuador, suggesting that natural disasters have important but short-lived impacts on firm productivity and market conditions in developing countries that vary depending on differences in firm efficiency.
Does US military aid strengthen weak states and deter adversaries, or foster resentment and increase terrorist attacks? In yesterday’s article, Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, and Daniel Meierrieks assess the untended consequences of US military aid.
Valuation changes are crucial for understanding countries’ external positions. In Monday’s article, José De Gregorio and Benjamín Peña analyse whether emerging market economies benefit from risk-sharing in the international monetary system through the valuation channel.
I (Oliver) had a great time attending the CSAE Conference. It was great to meet so many of our users and contributors in person, and hear about how people have used VoxDev, and their ideas for our platform. On that note, applications for the 2026 Visiting Fellowships at CSAE are now open. This scheme supports a residency in Oxford from January to March, including flights, accommodation, and a small stipend - it is open to African scholars currently pursuing a career in economics.