Complements or Substitutes? State Presence and the Power of Traditional...
This is the twentieth in this year's series of posts by PhD students on the job market. When we study how institutions affect development, we often focus on the characteristics of national...
View ArticleOut of Power? Political Capture of the Indian Electricity Sector -- Guest...
This is the eighteenth in this year's series of posts by PhD students on the job market. In 2012, 700 million people in India suddenly found themselves without power for over 10 hours. At the time of...
View ArticleGood Fathers & Lemon Sons: Why Political Dynasties Cause “Reversals of...
This is the seventeenth in this year's series of posts by PhD students on the job market. Aquinos, Bhuttos, Trudeaus, Yudhoyonos, Gandhis, Lees, Fujimoris: political dynasties remain ubiquitous in...
View ArticleEvaluating the contact hypothesis in an authoritarian society: can visits by...
This is the fifth in this year's series of posts by PhD students on the job market. How should democratic governments interact with their authoritarian counterparts? The options include initiating a...
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What’s the latest in development economics research? Microsummaries of 150+...
Last weekend, the North East Universities Development Consortium held its annual conference, with more than 160 papers on a wide range of development topics and from a broad array of low- and...
View ArticleHow to attract and motivate passionate public service providers
In Gaile Parkin's novel Baking Cakes in Kigali, two women living in Kigali, Rwanda – Angel and Sophie – argue over the salary paid to a development worker: "Perhaps these big organisations needed to...
View ArticleCash Transfers Increase Trust in Local Government
Cash transfers seem to be everywhere. A recent statistic suggests that 130 low- and middle-income countries have an unconditional cash transfer program, and 63 have a conditional cash transfer...
View ArticleInformation-driven voter disagreement over more authoritarianism:...
This is the third in this year’s series of posts by PhD students on the job market. Globally, civil liberties and political rights have been declining for eleven consecutive years (Freedom House,...
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What’s the latest in development economics research? A round-up of 140+...
Did you miss this year’s Northeast Universities Development Consortium conference, or NEUDC? I did, unfortunately! NEUDC is a large development economics conference, with more than 160 papers on the...
View ArticleThank you for your patronage? Discretionary appointments and the performance...
This is the sixth in our series of posts by Ph.D. students on the job market this year
View ArticlePolitics and Governance: calling for evaluation of “atypical” interventions:...
A “meta” problem facing not only impact evaluation work but all development policy dialogue is perverse behavior in the public sector to not pursue evidence-based, technically sound policies. Politics...
View ArticleInside the black box of participatory democracy: leadership and inclusion in...
This is the ninth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. In developing countries a large fraction of public and financial services are provided by NGOs and mediated by...
View ArticleThe Payoffs from Political Competition
We all know that institutions matter for development. A really nice new paper by Daron Acemoglu, Tristan Reed and James Robinson shows us how political competition affects a wide range of...
View ArticleWhat makes bureaucracies work better? Lessons from the Nigerian Civil Service
Given Jed's post last week on thinking through performance incentives for health workers, and the fact that the World Bank is in the throes of a reform process itself, a fascinating new paper from...
View ArticleCalling the Cops? Institutional Reform in the Rajasthan Police
An interesting new paper by Abhijit Banerjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, and Nina Singh shows how sometimes top-down reforms might be a good move through a look at a...
View ArticleDemocracy isn't dead
At least not in Benin. This week, I take a look at interesting paper by Leonard Wantchekon documenting an experiment he did in Benin with this year’s presidential election. In this paper, Leonard...
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