Subsidising stability: State employment in China China uses state-owned enterprises to promote social stability by employing high-risk groups when unrest threats emerge Institutions & Political Economy Jaya Wen Published 28.08.20
Returns to work, child labour, and schooling: The income versus price effects Returns to child work play an important role in determining child labour and schooling through changing the opportunity costs of schooling Education Jie Bai Yukun Wang Published 21.08.20
How remittances affect long-run economic change in rural labour markets International labour migration and related remittances increase human capital attainment in rural areas, and over the long run trigger a shift of jobs out of farming towards the service sector Migration & Urbanisation Taryn Dinkelman Published 29.06.20
Market power versus supply chain regulations: Lessons from Bangladesh A ban on intermediary oil traders, intended to reduce their market power, backfired: prices rose 10% as wholesalers lost intermediary trade credit Firms Shahe Emran Dilip Mookherjee Forhad Shilpi M. Helal Uddin Published 01.05.20
Maternal mortality and women’s political participation Reserving seats for women in parliament leads to sharp reductions in maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries Health Sonia Bhalotra Damian Clarke Joseph Flavian Gomes Atheendar Venkataramani Published 24.04.20
The impact of social incentives on tax payment in Pakistan An evaluation of two programmes reveals that public disclosure of tax information and social recognition of top taxpayers increases tax revenues Public Economics Mazhar Waseem Published 23.03.20
From fog to smog: The value of pollution information China’s air quality monitoring and disclosure programme triggered a cascade of changes in household behaviour with significant health benefits Energy & Environment Panle Jia Barwick Shanjun Li Liguo Lin Eric Zou Published 24.02.20
China’s 2009 VAT reform and lumpy investment behaviour Tax policies that reduce firm inaction are more effective at stimulating investment than policies that simply lower the cost of investment Firms Zhao Chen Xian Jiang Zhikuo Liu Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato Daniel Yi Xu Published 13.01.20
The return to protectionism The aggregate annual loss to US consumers from higher import prices as a result of the trade war with China could be as much as $68.8 billion Trade Pablo Fajgelbaum Pinelopi Goldberg Patrick Kennedy Amit Khandelwal Published 02.12.19
