Is Populism Necessarily Bad Economics?
I distinguish between political and economic populism. Both are averse to agencies of restraint, or, equivalently, delegation to technocrats or external rules.
Research
Male Social Status and Women's Work
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development.
Measuring Venezuelan Emigration with Twitter
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months.
Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care a
Household Debt
ne reason the Great Recession was, alas, great was the quantity of household debt accumulated in the lead-up to the financial crisis.
How to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Three Proposals
Countries that specialize in commodities have in recent years been hit by high volatility in world prices for their exports.
Monetary Regimes to Cope with Volatile Commodity Export Prices: Two Proposals
What monetary regime should commodity-exporting developing countries adopt?
Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth
Decades of programmatic experimentation by development NGOs combined with the latest empirical techniques for estimating program impact have shown that a well-designed, well-implemented, multi-faceted
What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?
As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and harmonization, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory.
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage.
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