Electronic Food Vouchers: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect the delivery of aid in practice.
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Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19
We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia.
The new paradigm of economic complexity
Highlights • Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal issues and challenges of our time. • This brief introduction to economic complexity summarizes key t
A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing
This paper uses historical labor market data to assess the plausibility that the Federal Reserve can engineer a soft landing for the economy.
A Balance-Sheet Model of Fiscal Policy in Namibia
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years.
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity
Public statistics on local economic activity, provided by the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Federal Reserve System (FRS), and state agen
What Will It Take for Jordan to Grow?
This report aims to answer the critical but difficult question: "What will it take for Jordan to grow?" Though Jordan has numerous active growth and reform strategies in place, they do not clearly ans
Education and Innovation
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.
From Health Crisis to Financial Distress
I discuss the multifaceted economic and financial vulnerabilities that have been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic on a foundation of already weak economic fundamentals in many countries
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