The performance of PPP and publicly procured road projects: evidence from India
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Indian roads represent the worlds' largest program of private sector investment in road development and operations.
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Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments
The Earned Income Tax Credit distributes more than $60 billion to over 20 million low-income families annually. Nevertheless, an estimated one-fifth of eligible households do not claim it.
Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry
The existence of collective reputation implies an important externality.
Open-Population Inference: An Investigation of the Underrepresentation of the Second Generation in Research on Intergenerational Income Mobility
Studies about intergenerational income mobility are increasingly popular across the social sciences.
Chapter 13: Economists' analyses of technological change
This contribution surveys significant contributions technological innovations have made to humans' economic and material welfare, the seminal analysis made by noted economists, and the supportive poli
Implied comparative advantage
The comparative advantage of a location shapes its industrial structure.
Overcoming Remoteness in the Peruvian Amazonia: A Growth Diagnostic of Loreto
Is there a tradeoff between environmental sustainability and economic development? If there is a place where that question can be approximated, that is Loreto.
A Simple Theory of Economic Development at the Extensive Industry Margin
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (export) diversifcation.
What is public policy success, especially in development?
Public policy work is hard, especially when one works in developing countries. It is even difficult to define what success looks like, and thus how to manage towards success.
An Econometric Model of International Growth Dynamics for Long-Horizon Forecasting
We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint long-run evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017.
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