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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Informal Labor and the Cost of Social Programs: Evidence from 15 Years of Unemployment Insurance in Brazil
Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Prices, Markups and Trade Reform
Self-Control at Work
Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
Export Destinations and Input Prices
Location-Based Tax Incentives: Evidence from India
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers: Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar and Katherine Terrell

Firms Response and the Unintended Consequences of Piecemeal Regulations
Do Billionaires Help or Hurt the Economy?
Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
The Performance of Elected Officials: Evidence from State Supreme Courts
Where Local Kings Rule: Long-Term Impacts of Precolonial Institutions and Geography on Access to Public Infrastructure Services in Nigeria
Viewpoint: The Human Capital Approach to Inference
Democracy Does Cause Growth
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians
Effects of Labor Reallocations on Productivity and Inequality - Insights from Studies on Transition
Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa
Dynamic Transparency: An Audit of Mexico's Freedom of Information Act
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti
From Global Savings Glut to Financing Infrastructure
Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger's 1986 Meningitis Epidemic
Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II
Exchange Rate Implications of Border Tax Adjustment Neutrality
The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level - Once More
The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi
The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
Formal Sector Incentives and Informality
Does primary school duration matter? Evaluating the consequences of a large Chinese policy experiment
Child beliefs, societal beliefs, and teacher-student identity match
A Research-Based Ranking of Public Policy Schools
Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment
Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
The Effect of Dust Storms on Child Health in West Africa
Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters
Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap
Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Enablers, Promoters and Preventers
Schooling in Sickness and in Health: The Effects of Epidemic Disease on Gender Inequality
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
Local Industrial Shocks and Infant Morality
Climate Change, Epidemics and Equality
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazil
Election by Community Consensus: Effects on Political Selection and Governance
Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya
Endogenous Gender Norms: Evidence from Africa's Gold Mining Industry
Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard: Analyzng Firm-level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure
Corporate Profit Taxes, Capital Expenditure and Real Wages: The analytics behind a contentious debate
Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from An Energy-Saving Program
Expanding Global Liquidity Insurance: Myths and Realities of the IMF's Precautionary Credit Lines
Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
Within but Without: Involuntary Displacement and Economic Development
The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from Schooling Expansion in Romania
Zombie Firms and Political Influence on Bank Lending in China
The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Exploring the wide dispersion in productivity among European firms
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment
Can Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil
Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
Pupil Absenteeism, Measurement, and Menstruation: Evidence from Western Kenya
Corruption Environment and Investment in Private Firms
Does Schooling Cause Structural Transformation
How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities
Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories
How Much Can We Remedy Very Low Learning Levels in Rural Parts of Low-income Countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the Gambia
The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Industrial Policy, Macroeconomics, and Structural Change
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply
The Epidemic Effect: Epidemics, Institutions, and Human Capital Development
Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
The cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of providing menstrual cups and sanitary pads to schoolgirls in rural Kenya
The Story of a Hurricane: Local Government, NGOs, and Post-Disaster Assistance
Pull Up a Chair: Municipal Council Size and Local Taxes in Brazil
Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
The Value of Communication for Mental Health
'We Are Not Guinea Pigs': The Effects of Negative News on Vaccine Compliance
Forgone Investment: Civil Conflict and Agricultural Credit in Colombia
Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants
The causal impact of sanitary products on school absenteeism and psychosocial well-being: Evidence from Western Kenya
Natural Resource Wealth and Crime: The Role of International Price Shocks and Public Policy
North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling
Converging to Convergence
When bootstraps aren't enough: Demand, supply, and learning in a very low-income context
How important are beliefs about gender differences in math ability? Transmission across generations and impacts on child outcomes
Protest Matters: The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution
Behavioral Messages and Debt Repayment
Bank Presence and Health
Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
The causal impact of sanitary products on psychosocial well-being and school absenteeism: Evidence from Western Kenya
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