Research by Topic
Full Article: “The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.”
This article by Michael Kremer from 1993 draws a parallel from the spaceship Challenger, which exploded due to the malfunctioning of a single piece, to economic development.
Read MoreFull Article: “Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990”
An earlier paper from Michael Kremer, this paper considers the two main arguments on the nature of population: that more people means more stomachs and thus more pressure, or that more people means more brains and thus more innovation.
Read MoreFull Article: “Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation”
In this article, 2019 Nobel laureate Michael Kremer looks back to history for an example of a patent buyout: a situation in which the government buys the patent for a technology which would be beneficial to the public, and then places it in the public domain.
Read MoreFull Article: “Worms at Work: Long-Run Impacts of a Child Health investment”
In this study, Michael Kremer and crew assess the impacts of childhood de-worming interventions in Kenya on how those same children perform in the labor market once they’ve grown up, and find some surprisingly persistent effects on their welfare.
Read MoreFull Article: “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities”
This paper on the effects of deworming treatments on children in Kenya, by Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel, was one of the pioneers in the use of randomized controlled trials at a scale of interest and with implications for cash-strapped governments.
Read MoreBlog: Three Problems with Randomized Controlled Trials
This blog post on Brookings from Jeffrey Hammer covers three big reasons not to think of randomized controlled trials as the next “magic bullet” for development.
Read MoreVoxDev Executive Summary: 2009 VAT Reform in China and Lumpy Investment
This executive summary discusses the VAT reform in China that took place in 2009 and how that has affected investment.
Read MoreArticle: The Cost of Labor Regulations in India
Cost of Labour Regulation in India Innovative Research on the Cost of Labor Regulations
Read MoreBrookings Podcast: “Globalization, NAFTA and the Wall”
In this episode of Dollar and Sense, Brookings fellow David Dollar discusses NAFTA and globalization with Ernesto Zedillo, a former president of Mexico.
Read MoreBrookings Podcast: “The Obstacles to a US-China Trade Deal”
In this episode of Dollar and Sense, Brookings fellow David Dollar talks with former US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky about the hurdles the United States and China will need to overcome before they can reach a trade agreement.
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