We just released our paper using a field experiment to reveal indoor air pollution (IAP) in London: It’s worse than you think! 🧵with five main results👇 With Sefi Roth Columbia | SIPA LSE Geography & Environment Grantham LSE

What makes for good analytical work at the World Bank? Money helps internal ratings and external visibility (downloads). More academic teams get external visibility, but low internal ratings.

As the world faces demographic shifts, the role of migration in balancing labor markets has never been more critical. Dive into the analysis of global datasets between 1960-2020 to understand how Bilateral Labor Agreements (BLAs) affect migration: wrld.bg/NtXu50VikFQ

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

Brain rot is real, hitting adults too. Two recent articles show that.... 1) When our phones got smart, we got dumber: ft.com/content/a8016c… 2) When people are randomly assigned to make their smartphones dumb, they get smarter academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Long-term research on the One Laptop per Child programme reveals that providing laptops to students did not have a positive impact on educational outcomes. Read the full article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

Congratulations to Stefanie!

"When you bring a woman into the workforce, you empower one person, but you benefit generations to come." World Bank's Aneeka Rahman tells stories of Bangladeshi women who have found jobs + transformed their lives with support from IDA - World Bank. wrld.bg/YwB350VHqHw #IDAworks

🆕 The Future of Foreign Aid: Radically Simple & (or?) Embracing Political Economy On May 12th, Rachel Glennerster Center for Global Development & Stefan Dercon Stefan Dercon CSAE Blavatnik School of Government will discuss the future of foreign aid in an era of falling budgets. Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Common law fiduciary duty increases returns of annuity products sold by financial advisers but reduces firm entry. We decompose its effects on incentives to provide high-quality advice and on adviser costs and discuss implications of stricter regulation. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

I am very pleased to share this announcement of our new center at MIT. David Autor, Simon Johnson and I are grateful to the Stone Foundation for their generous support enabling us to study two defining challenges of our age: inequality and the future of work.

Is there a "best" way to discipline kids? Do you have to "gentle parent"? Do time-outs ruin your child? And what would "best" mean, anyway? I investigate: parentdata.org/what-is-the-be…

In 2019, Germany and the Philippines established the world’s first nursing Global Skill Partnership. This blog, with colleagues World Bank & GIZ, explores the implementation of this partnership, lessons learned, and next steps. cgdev.org/blog/hundreds-…

Harnessing South Asia’s diaspora for prosperity at home is the focus of the conference we are hosting in Bhutan in partnership with Tshering Tobgay. Only a vibrant private sector can create the millions of jobs the region needs. My remarks here: wrld.bg/vh5e50VW0aj

🆕 Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings Today on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (DartmouthEcon), Priya Mukherjee (UWMadison Ag&AppEcon), Nikhilesh Prakash (Stockholm School of Economics), Nishith Prakash (NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs NU Economics) & Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

What impacts did one-on-one face-to-face counselling have on the mental health of adolescents in Nepal? Read today's paper to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings Last week on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (DartmouthEcon), Priya Mukherjee (UWMadison Ag&AppEcon), Nikhilesh Prakash (Stockholm School of Economics), Nishith Prakash (NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs NU Economics) & Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

Econometrica Volume 93, Issue 4 (July 2025) is now online econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Thank you Freakonomics for the great discussion and podcast! The Economist Who (Gasp!) Asks People What They Think @freakonomics freakonomics.com/podcast/the-ec…

I should be happier about this paper finally appearing, but sometimes the failures outweigh the successes. link.springer.com/article/10.100…