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Working Papers

The Stanford King Center on Global Development curates working papers produced by faculty affiliates to showcase the wide range of development-oriented research.

1 - 50 of 653 publications
Format: 2019

Skill Versus Voice in Local Development

Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, Edward Miguel, Maarten Voors
May 2019   PDF icon wp1046.pdf

Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

Marshall Burke, Vincent Tanutama
Apr 2019   PDF icon wp1044.pdf

Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication

Kelly Bidwell, Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster
Mar 2019   PDF icon wp1045.pdf

Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy

Marcella Alsan, Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, Valentina Coni, Iván Mejía-Guevara, Grant Miller
Feb 2019   PDF icon 1041wp.pdf

Addressing Cross-National Generalizability in Educational Impact Evaluation

Eric A. Hanushek
Jan 2019   PDF icon 1029wp.pdf

Representation and development across groups: Evidence from a large-scale government program in India

Saad Gulzar, Nicholas Haas, Benjamin Pasquale
Nov 2018   PDF icon 1043wp_0319.pdf

Keep it Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks

Cátia Batista, Marcel Fafchamps, Pedro C. Vicente
Oct 2018   PDF icon 1040wp.pdf

Linking Individuals Across Historical Sources: a Fully Automated Approach

Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill, Santiago Perez
Oct 2018   PDF icon 1031-1wp.pdf

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew O. Jackson
Sep 2018   PDF icon 1030wp.pdf

Assessing Opportunities for Solar Lanterns to Improve Educational Outcomes in Rural Off-Grid Regions: Challenges and Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Ognen Stojanovski, Mark Thurber, Frank A. Wolak, George Muwowo, Kat Harrison
Sep 2018   PDF icon 1023wp.pdf

Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation

Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, Farah Said
Aug 2018   PDF icon 1039wp.pdf

Social Media and Rigid Beliefs: Evidence from Impeachment of the President

Yong Suk Lee
Aug 2018   PDF icon 1018wp.pdf

Using Aggregated Relational Data To Feasibly Identify Network Structure Without Network Data

Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Tyler H. McCormick, Mengjie Pan
Jul 2018   PDF icon 1008-2wp.pdf

Testing Models of Social Learning on Networks: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field

Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Horacio Larreguy, Juan Pablo Xandri
Jul 2018   PDF icon 571wp-1.pdf

Do CEOs Know Best? Evidence from China

Nicholas Bloom, Hong Cheng, Mark Duggan, Hongbin Li, Franklin Qian
Jun 2018   PDF icon 1042wp.pdf

Motivating Political Candidacy and Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Jun 2018   PDF icon 1017wp.pdf

The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia

Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten
May 2018   PDF icon 1001wp.pdf

The Long-Term Spillover Effects of Changes in the Return to Schooling

Ran Abramitzky, Victor Lavy, Santiago Perez
Apr 2018   PDF icon 1032wp.pdf

Market Power in a Hydro-Dominated Wholesale Electricity Market

Shaun D . McRae, Frank A. Wolak
Mar 2018   PDF icon 1036wp.pdf

Economic Foundations of the Territorial State System

Avidit Acharya, Alexander Lee
Mar 2018   PDF icon 1033wp.pdf

Can Political Alignment be Costly?

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Arman Rezaee
Feb 2018   PDF icon 1034wp.pdf

Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment

Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Abdul Malek, Debayan Pakrashi
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1038wp.pdf

The Performance of State-Owned Enterprise: New Evidence from the China Employer-Employee Survey

Hong Cheng, Hongbin Li, Tang Li
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1037wp.pdf

Multi-Tiered Supply Chain Risk Management

Georg Schorpp, Feryal Erhun, Hau L. Lee
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1035wp.pdf

Public Opinion and Decisions about Military Force in Democracies

Michael Tomz, Jessica L. P. Weeks, Keren Yarhi-Milo
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1027wp.pdf

Human Rights and Public Support for War

Michael Tomz, Jessica L. P. Weeks
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1026wp.pdf

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1022wp.pdf

Ballot Order Effects and Party Responses: Evidence from Lotteries in Colombia

Saad Gulzar, Nelson A. Ruiz
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1016wp.pdf

The Daily Grind: Cash Needs and Labor Supply

Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson, Santiago Saavedra
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1015wp.pdf

Cultural Assimilation During Two Ages of Mass Migration

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson
Jan 2018   PDF icon 1010wp.pdf

Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence From India

Nicholas A. Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, John Roberts
Dec 2017   PDF icon 1013wp.pdf

Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, Scott Ohlmacher, Itay Saporta-Eksten
Dec 2017   PDF icon 1012wp.pdf

Does Private Regulation Preempt Public Regulation?

Neil Malhotra, Benoît Monin, Michael Tomz
Nov 2017   PDF icon 1028wp.pdf

Mortgage Design in an Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market

Adam M. Guren, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Timothy J. McQuade
Nov 2017   PDF icon 1019wp.pdf

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills

Manoj Mohanan, Grant Miller, Katherine Donato, Yulya Truskinovsky, Marcos Vera-Hernández
Oct 2017   PDF icon 1025wp.pdf

Risk Information, Risk Salience, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Cameroon

Pascaline Dupas, Elise Huillery, Juliette Seban
Oct 2017   PDF icon 1005wp.pdf

Retailing with 3D Printing

Li Chen, Yao Cui, Hau L. Lee
Sep 2017   PDF icon 1024wp.pdf

Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan

Leonardo Bursztyn, Michael Callen, Bruno Ferman, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Noam Yuchtman
Sep 2017   PDF icon 1021wp.pdf

Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

Nicholas A. Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen
Sep 2017   PDF icon 1014wp.pdf

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones, John Van Reenen, Michael Webb
Sep 2017   PDF icon 1011wp.pdf

Can Community-based Microfinance Groups Match Savers with Borrowers? Evidence from Rural Malawi

Rachel Cassidy, Marcel Fafchamps
Jul 2017   PDF icon 1007wp.pdf

Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Maria Pia Basurto Preciado, Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson
Jul 2017   PDF icon 1004wp.pdf

“Sons of the Soil” A Model of Assimilation and Population Control

Avidit Acharya, David D. Laitin and Ruxi Zhang
Jun 2017   PDF icon 1020wp.pdf

Expectations, Network Centrality, And Public Good Contributions: Experimental Evidence from India

Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps
Jun 2017   PDF icon 1002wp.pdf

Opening Markets: Rules, Norms, and Bargaining in Trade Treaties

Judith Goldstein, Robert Gulotty
Jun 2017   PDF icon 1000wp.pdf

Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn
May 2017   PDF icon 1003wp.pdf

Unpacking Teacher Professional Development

Prashant Loyalka, Anna Popova, Guirong Li, Chengfang Liu, Henry Shi
Apr 2017   PDF icon 1009wp.pdf

Job Fairs: Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn, Forhad Shilpi
Apr 2017   PDF icon 1006wp.pdf

Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
Apr 2017   PDF icon 593wp.pdf

Misallocation or Mismeasurement?

Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, Cian Ruane
Mar 2017   PDF icon 599wp.pdf

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