Mediating Maternal Health − Traditional Birth Attendants as Intermediaries in...
This is the second in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. Relaxing supply-side constraints is not always sufficient to ensure delivery of public services to poor and remote...
View ArticleCan commuting costs increase welfare? Israeli checkpoints and the...
This is the third in our series of posts by students on the job market this year.Puzzling Results: Economists tend to believe that travel and trade costs reduce welfare. Trade papers like Irwin (2005),...
View ArticleAm I Good Enough? (Biased) Self-Assessments and School Choices: Guest Post by...
This is the fourth in our series of job market posts this year. Research from numerous corners of psychology suggests that self-assessments of skill and character are often flawed in substantive and...
View ArticleWelfare gains from freer trade. Guest post by Souleymane Soumahoro
This is the fifth in our series of job market posts this year. Once known as the “Safe Haven” of Western Africa, because of its long-standing political stability and economic success, Côte d’Ivoire...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Development Programs – Beyond nutrition and cognitive...
This is the sixth post in our series of blogs by graduate students on the job market this year. Interventions during early childhood have begun to gain importance in the social policy agenda in...
View ArticleThe Hidden Local Costs of Deforestation in the Tropics. Guest post by Teevrat...
This is the seventh post in our series of blogs by graduate students on the job market this year. The debate over deforestation has traditionally weighed the tradeoffs between local economic benefits...
View ArticleInvisible sample selection: Why you should care about those who leave when...
This is the eighth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects the welfare...
View ArticleEnding Stigma: Lessons from the AIDS Epidemic -- Guest post by Laura Derksen
This is number 9 in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. As HIV continues to spread in sub-Saharan Africa, so does stigma. Many go to great lengths to hide their HIV status, get...
View ArticleDoes higher pay attract better applicants? Evidence from a Ugandan NGO: Guest...
This is the tenth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year Personnel recruitment is a key challenge for all organizations and we know that financial incentives play an important...
View ArticleFixing financial markets when other key markets are broken, too: Guest post...
This is the eleventh in our series of posts by students on the job market this year Researchers, policymakers and aid organizations have devoted lots of attention to improving access to credit and,...
View ArticleCustomer Information Is Not a Prescription for Counterfeit Drugs: Guest post...
This is the twelfth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year Recent work has suggested that as many as one-third of antimalarial drugs in sub-Saharan Africa are of low-quality, a...
View ArticleWho Benefits From School Competition? Guest Post by Natalie Bau.
This is the thirteenth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. A standard result in industrial organization is that competition increases consumer welfare by incentivizing firms...
View ArticlePeople think it’s easy to contract HIV. That’s a good thing, right? Maybe...
This is the fourteenth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. People are afraid of HIV. Moreover, people around the world are convinced that the virus is easier to get than it...
View Article"Coordinate or Perish": Can Cell Phones Help Farmers Grow Perishable Crops?...
This is the fifteenth post in our series by students on the job market this year The main theme of my job market paper can be summed in a comment that a farmer made during my primary data collection...
View ArticleThe Mission: Human Capital and the Persistence of Fortune: Guest Post by...
This is the sixteenth in our series of posts by students on the job market this year. The importance of history in economic development is well-established (Nunn 2009; Spolaore and Wacziarg 2013), but...
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