Executive Summaries
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Read MoreThe value of social distancing in the developed v. developing world (blog post on VoxEU)
This blog post by Mushfiq Mobarak and Zachary Barnett-Howell provides a succinct explanation of why “lockdown” has different costs and benefits in somewhere like the US versus somewhere like central Africa.
Read MoreNews Article: “A Ticket for Corruption”
This clever study by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel explored how “culture” affected whether or not diplomats from other countries obeyed parking rules in Manhattan.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: “Poverty and Witch Killing”
This executive summary provides a synopsis of an article in which Edward Miguel analyzed the relationship between witch killings and extreme weather among the poor in Tanzania.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: “Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India”
This executive summary on JPAL describes an article exploring the effect of a change in gender quotas for village leadership in India.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: “Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”
This executive summary on JPAL describes an experiment in which farmers in Kenya were provided with “nudges” to make purchases of fertilizer rather than putting it off suggests that small policy changes to the incentives people face can have outsized impacts.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: “Measuring the Impact of Microfinance in Hyderabad, India”
This executive summary from JPAL provides a synopsis of the microcredit intervention that finds mediocre effects of microcredit, perhaps because loosening credit constraints doesn’t help much if not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.
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 MoreVox Executive Summary: “Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space”
This article by Henderson, Storegard, and Weil, published in 2012, pioneered the use of satellite light data as an alternative measure for economic growth. This executive summary from Vox gives a synopsis of the larger paper.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: Why Some States are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others
In this executive summary, Best, Szakonyi and Hjort write about a 2017 article in which they utilized state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.
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