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Camilla Schneier Jeanne Sorin (Jeanne Sorin) studies transportation and environmental challenges in developing cities. In her JMP, she examines how land acquisition costs prevent the implementation of high benefit road improvement projects in Kampala, Uganda. Read more at jeannesorin.github.io

Very happy that this paper is out after a long time in the making. Many thanks to participants, RAs, advisory board members, and coauthors.

🧑‍🎄time! Our CEPR LSE Geography & Environment Centre for Economic Performance DP #PrimeLocations is forthcoming at AER: Insights.🍾 Our🎁4u: PL shapefiles and employment by sector at micro-geographic grid-level for 381 MSAs and 125 global cities. All free to download from primelocations.ahlfeldt.com Use it wisely!😀

Good managers are matched with bad workers to ensure all production lines meet deadlines with important buyers. Just Accepted paper by Achyuta Adhvaryu (achyuta adhvaryu), Vittorio Bassi (Vittorio Bassi), Anant Nyshadham (Anant Nyshadham), and Jorge Tamayo zurl.co/t6JdD

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Worker Mobility in Production Networks,'' from Cardoza, @grigoli82, Pierri and Cian Ruane: restud.com/worker-mobilit…

'bout time for the Financial Times or someone to give Ken a regular column

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Wealth Inequality and Asset Prices'' from Matthieu Gomez: restud.com/wealth-inequal…

Alas, along with recent USAID and State Dept cuts to my organized crime and criminal justice research in Latin America, on Friday DoD terminated a new $2.1 million grant to study programs to counter organized crime and gang recruitment science.org/content/articl…

Personal initiative training continues to yield positive benefits after 7 years, but impacts vary with gender - I summarize a form of business training that not only increased firm profits in Togo, but has impacts for men that grow over time blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

"National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! From Vincent Pons, Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet. The companion paper: restud.com/electoral-turn… #EconSky #Elections

Credit card usage by small US businesses nearly doubled in two years. Exploring how credit cards became crucial financing, with Federal Reserve rate hikes impacting growth and delinquencies, from Ufuk Akcigit, Raman Singh Chhina, Seyit M. Cilasun, jmirandal 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦, and Nicolas

Who wins and loses from neighborhood change? We model consumption amenities as a market outcome where supply caters to the heterogenous tastes of local population. Our empirical application quantifies the distributional effects of mass tourism in Amsterdam.econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Low-cost housing for Africa’s cities Last month on VoxDev, Simon Franklin (School of Economics & Finance at Queen Mary) discussed evidence from a large-scale housing lottery programme in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

As the editor of Japanese Economic Review, I've been following the vision that the JER's role as the English-language journal of Japanese Economic Association is to introduce high-quality work, especially (although not limited to) related to the Japanese economy, to the world.

Large-scale labor contracting in India has diminished the bite of long standing labor laws in India that imposed costs on large firms. Adoption of contract labor led to an expansion of large firms and a 7.3% increase in aggregate TFP. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Estoy muy contento de compartir que nuestro nuevo artículo acaba de publicarse en The Review of Economic Studies: academic.oup.com/restud/article… En este trabajo examinamos los determinantes de la gobernanza criminal en el contexto de Medellín, Colombia.

Incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the ability to learn more from experiments. Leonardo Iacovone, early modern boy-actress (they/them) & David McKenzie demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

A new long-term follow-up on a cash grant programme in Uganda shows that impacts partly reappear during crisis times, shedding light on the challenges of long-term RCTs. Read this week's article to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

New paper! RCT on subsidies for fixed market-access costs in Tunisia. Big effects on exports (for existing destinations/products) but not # of destinations/products, in contrast to some workhorse trade models. w/ Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman nber.org/papers/w33985

1/ New paper: Democracies only grow faster than autocracies because of personalist leaders. Bad things mainly happen in overcentralized, unchecked regimes. New from me, Scott Gehlbach & arthur_zeyang_yu, The Personalist Penalty: osf.io/preprints/soca…