PUBLICATIONS SPOTLIGHTS

Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery in Low-Income Countries

The macroeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries, with a focus on the learning crisis.

Authors: Christopher Adam, Edward F. Buffie, Kangni Kpodar and Luis-Felipe Zanna

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volume 75, March 2023, 103492

Journal of Macroeconomics paper

Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomised Trials in Five Countries

Building evidence across countries on improving education systems.

Authors: Noam Angrist, Micheal Ainomugisha, Sai Pramod Bathena, Peter Bergman, Colin Crossley, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng, Rene Marlon Panti, Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Tim Sullivan

National Bureau of Economic Research

WP31208, May 2023, 103386

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Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya

The impact of cash tranfers on micro-enterprises in refugee settings.

Authors: Antonia Delius and Olivier Sterck

Journal of Development Economics

Volume 167, March 2024, 103232

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O-Ring Production Networks

What are the conditions for the success of export promotion policies? This papers documents how skill-intensity and skill matching matters.

Authors: Banu Demir, Ana Cecília Fieler, Daniel Yi Xu, and Kelly Kaili Yang

Journal of Political Economy

Volume 132, November 2023, 101086

Journal of Political Economy paper

The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia

Surprisingly strong impacts after five years of a simple role model intervention on poor households in Ethiopia.

Authors: Tanguy Bernard, Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin, Giulio Schinaia, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

CEPR Discussion Paper

DP18492, September 2023

CEPR discussion paper

General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Do cash transfers have local inflation effects? Do they help to stimulate local economies? This paper shows that a cash transfer programme in Kenya added 15% to local GDP without inflation effects.

Authors: Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus and Michael Walker

Econometrica, Open Access

Volume 90, November 2022, 103982

Econometrica paper

Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation: Evidence and Questions for African Development

A state of the art discussion of the state of the literature.

Author: Douglas Gollin

Oxford Development Studies

Volume 51, November 2023, 101080

Oxford Development Studies paper

Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises

Information on campaign promises improves outcomes, but vote-buying is nevertheless more effective than information campaigns, explaining why candidates do not use them.

Authors: Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Julien Labonne and Francesco Trebbi

The Economic Journal

January 2024, 101093

Economic Journal paper

The New Economics of Industrial Policy

A state of the art review on industrial policy, based on rigorous evidence and not just wishful thinking.

Authors: Réka Juhász, Nathan J. Lane and Dani Rodrik

Annual Review of Economics

Forthcoming

Lane's NBER working paper

Customised Cash Transfers: Financial Lives and Cash-Flow Preferences in Rural Kenya

Households in a Kenyan cash transfer programme prefer lumpier transfers, and many prefer delayed receipts.

Authors: Carolina Kansikas, Anandi Mani and Paul Niehaus

National Bureau of Economic Research

WP30930, February 2023, 103386

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Role Models and Revealed Gender-Specific Costs of STEM in an Extended Roy Model of Major Choice

An improved estimation methodology applied to the non-pecuniary cost to women to enroll in science and related degrees.

Authors: Marc Henry, Romuald Méango and Ismaël Mourifié

Journal of Econometrics

Volume 238, January 2024, 105571

Journal of Econometrics paper

Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan

Hire-purchase asset programmes find large, significant, and persistent effects

Authors: Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn

American Economic Review

Volume 114, February 2024, 101257

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Gendered Disparities during the COVID-19 Crisis in Sierra Leone

A gendered approach to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Authors: Madison Levine, Niccolò F. Meriggi, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Maarten Voors and Uday Wadehra

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings

Volume 113, May 2023, 101257

AEA Papers and Proceedings paper

Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

Getting credible skill information to the right agents can improve outcomes in the labour market.

Authors: Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin

American Economic Review

Volume 112, November 2022, 101257

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On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

A new framework for modelling projections of multidimensional poverty finds that 51 of 75 countries, including only about half the 37 African countries and all the Asian countries in the sample are on track to halve poverty incidence by 2030.

Authors: Sabina Alkire, Ricardo Nogales, Natalie Naïri Quinn and Nicolai Suppa

Journal of Development Economics

Volume 165, October 2023, 103150

Quinn Journal of Development Economics

The Labour Market and Poverty Impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa

Simulating impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa

Authors: Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia and Ronak Jain

South African Journal of Economics, Open Access

Volume 91, September 2023, 101111

South African Journal of Economics paper