🆕 How expanding deposit insurance changed investor behaviour in India Today on VoxDev w/ Pulak Ghosh (IIM Bangalore), Nicola Limodio (Università Bocconi) & Nishant Vats 🏳️‍🌈 (WashU Olin Business School): voxdev.org/topic/finance/…

🆕 When firms act like banks: Carry trades and currency risk management in emerging markets Today on VoxDev w/ Annie Lee (Johns Hopkins SAIS) & Steve Pak Yeung Wu (UCSDEcon): voxdev.org/topic/finance/…

🆕 How progressive taxation affects tax compliance in developing countries Today on VoxDev, Christopher Hoy (University of Melbourne World Bank Research) explains how when people believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

🆕 AI & development economics. I have added a bunch of new resources to this reading list on VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/ai-and-d… While we are a long way from good answers to the important questions on AI's economic impacts, there is a lot of interesting reading on this topic ⤵️

🆕 Can better managers save lives? Lessons from Chile’s civil service reform in public hospitals Today on VoxDev w/ Pablo Muñoz Henríquez (Universidad de Chile) & Cristóbal Otero (Columbia Business School): voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

🆕 Can anti-corruption campaigns reduce vote buying? Lessons from Brazil’s municipal audits Today on VoxDev w/ Gustavo Bobonis (Economics U of T), Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley Haas), MarcoGonzalezNavarro (Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics) & Simeon Nichter (UCSD Political Science): voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Merit-based recruitment and higher pay in Chile’s public hospitals attracted better-trained managers – leading to lower mortality rates and improved healthcare performance. Read today's article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

🆕 Rethinking trade and development 📢 Today on #VoxDevTalks w/ Tim Phillips Talk Normal, Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale Department of Economics Yale Jackson School) & Michele Ruta (IMF) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/re…

🆕 Climate change and rural livelihoods: How extreme heat drives international migration from El Salvador Today on VoxDev w/ Ana María Ibáñez (Inter-American Development Bank), Juliana Quigua (UCL Economics), Jimena Romero (Department of Economics, Stockholm University) & Andrea Velasquez (CU Denver): voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

Larry Summers is the chair of the Center for Global Development's Board of Directors. Hope that disgusting creep is kicked off of the board asap.

🆕 From imports to imitation: How R&D subsidies drove industrial growth in Brazil Today on VoxDev, Gustavo de Souza (ChicagoFed) discusses how R&D subsidies spurred long-term growth in Brazil: voxdev.org/topic/trade/im…

🆕 Public R&D and Brazil’s agricultural revolution Today on VoxDev, Ariel Akerman (Inter-American Development Bank), Jacob Moscona (MIT Economics), Heitor Pellegrina (Notre Dame Economics) & Karthik Sastry (Princeton Economics Princeton School of Public & International Affairs) discuss Embrapa's impact on agricultural productivity: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

'Academic incentives' are often raised as a reason for research not impacting policy - but what actually are they? Academia remains a black box for most - academics just know how stuff works, and rarely write it down. So we asked Noam Angrist for his thoughts ⤵️

🆕 When protection backfires: The impact of labour reform on women’s employment in Iran Today on VoxDev, Maggie Chen (GW Economics The Elliott School) & Ebad Ebadi (World Bank Research) discuss the unintended consequences of female labour reform in Iran: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

📈 Where have export take-offs transformed economies? 🚀 Check out the Export Boom Atlas from Growth Teams - an interactive map showing how countries from Vietnam to Morocco to Costa Rica achieved rapid sector-level growth that created jobs & prosperity: exportbooms.org

🆕 When should big data and algorithms be used to determine programme eligibility? Today on VoxDev w/ Emily Aiken (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), Joshua Blumenstock (Berkeley School of Information), Raymond Guiteras (NC State University), Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale Department of Economics Yale School of Management) & Nicole Hu: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

🆕 Rallying around the flag: How political narratives can turn conflict into votes Today on VoxDev, Yatish Arya (Ashoka University) & Apurav Bhatiya (Bham Economics) discuss how conflict can translate into electoral support in India: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

🆕 How terrorism shapes trade: The economic consequences of conflict for exporting firms Today on VoxDev, Zara Liaqat (Wilfrid Laurier University) & Karrar Hussain (American University Bulgaria) discuss how a major terrorist attack distorted Pakistan's export patterns: voxdev.org/topic/trade/ho…

📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning. At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, Abhijeet Singh will summarise evidence on education technology. Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…