Economic research plays a very useful role in testing our priors and establishing when widely held beliefs turn out to be false.

This week we featured research on cash transfers, monetary policy, taxation and more!

How can researchers write accessible summaries of academic research? In this blog, I reflect on some key takeaways from editing over 500 VoxDev articles that summarise policy-relevant research in development economics.

This week we featured research on saving lives, paying taxes, building roads and more!

Where can you find articles, podcasts, and videos about research and topics in development economics? This blog is your one-stop shop for accessible resources related to development economics.

No discipline has a monopoly on high-quality, policy-relevant research. As reflected on VoxDev, development economists are increasingly teaming up with other fields to improve the relevance of their research.

This week we featured research on bias, culture, labour policy, geoeconomics and more...

Many applied microeconomics papers conclude with a back-of-the-envelope calculation that scales their cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level. These types of aggregate estimates are only valid under very strong assumptions due to the ‘missin...

This week we featured research on conflict and development, foundational learning and more...