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Working Papers

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

1 - 50 of 689 publications
Format: 2021

Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score: Elite College Admission and Wages in China

Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li
Feb 2021   PDF icon wp1084.pdf

Women's Agency and Women's Employment: How Women's Sense of Agency Affects Their Labor Supply

Madeline McKelway
Jan 2021   PDF icon wp1083.pdf

Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children

Nava Ashraf, Erica M. Field, Alessandra Voena, Roberta Ziparo
Dec 2020   PDF icon wp1082.pdf

The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their Migration Intentions

Ala’ Alrababa’h, Daniel Masterson, Marine Casalis, Dominik Hangartner, Jeremy M. Weinstein
Nov 2020   PDF icon wp1081.pdf

Macroeconomic Outcomes and COVID-19: A Progress Report

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Charles I. Jones
Oct 2020   PDF icon wp1080.pdf

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State

Sara Lowes, Eduardo Montero
Oct 2020   PDF icon wp1079.pdf

Using Satellite Imagery to Understand and Promote Sustainable Development

Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon
Oct 2020   PDF icon wp1078.pdf

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Syed Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Arman B. Rezaee
Aug 2020   PDF icon wp1077.pdf

Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Pascaline Dupas, Basimenye Nhlema, Zachary Wagner, Aaron Wolf, Emily Wroe
Jul 2020   PDF icon wp1074.pdf

National Banks and the Local Economy

Chenzi Xu, He Yang
Jun 2020   PDF icon wp1076.pdf

Network-based Hiring: Local Benefits; Global Costs

Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Melanie Morten, Alessandra Peter
Jun 2020   PDF icon wp1073.pdf

Market Fragmentation

Daniel Chen, Darrell Duffie
May 2020   PDF icon wp1075.pdf

Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception

Grant Miller, Áureo de Paula, Christine Valente
May 2020   PDF icon wp1072.pdf

Clans and Calamity: How Social Capital Saved Lives during China’s Great Famine

Jiarui Cao, Yiqing Xu, Chuanchuan Zhang
May 2020   PDF icon wp1071.pdf

Productivity Dispersion And Persistence Among the World’s Most Numerous Firms

Casey C. Maue, Marshall Burke, Kyle J. Emerick
Apr 2020   PDF icon wp1070.pdf

Innovative Growth Accounting

Peter J. Klenow, Huiyu Li
Apr 2020   PDF icon wp1064.pdf

Isolating the “Tech” from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China

Yue Ma, Robert Fairlie, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle
Mar 2020   PDF icon wp1065.pdf

Does Information About Climate Risk Affect Property Values?

Miyuki Hino, Marshall Burke
Feb 2020   PDF icon wp1069.pdf

Generating Interpretable Poverty Maps using Object Detection in Satellite Images

Kumar Ayush, Burak Uzkent, Marshall Burke, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon
Feb 2020   PDF icon wp1068.pdf

The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

Charles I. Jones
Feb 2020   PDF icon wp1066.pdf

Integration Failures in Politics: A Search for Mechanisms

David Laitin, Mathilde Emeriau
Feb 2020   PDF icon wp1063.pdf

The Decomposition of the Impact of International Monetary Spillovers to Emerging Market Economies

Francisco Eduardo Luna A. Santos, Márcio G. P. Garcia
Feb 2020   PDF icon wp1061.pdf

Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas

Saad Gulzar, Nicholas Haas, Benjamin Pasquale
Jan 2020   PDF icon wp1056.pdf

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran
Jan 2020   PDF icon wp1058.pdf

Misallocation or Mismeasurement?

Peter J. Klenow, Mark Bils, Cian Ruane
Jan 2020   PDF icon wp1060.pdf

Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal

Saad Gulzar, Zuhad Hai, Binod Kumar Paudel
Dec 2019   PDF icon wp1054.pdf

China's Unconventional Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: The Wide-Ranging Impacts of an Implicit Output Subsidy

Lawrence H. Goulder, Xianling Long, Jieyi Lu, Richard D. Morgenstern
Dec 2019   PDF icon wp1053.pdf

Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household

Seema Jayachandran, B. Kelsey Jack, Sarojini Rao
Nov 2019   PDF icon wp1057.pdf

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Saad Gulzar, Michael Callen, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee
Sep 2019   PDF icon wp1055.pdf

Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandra
Sep 2019   PDF icon wp1059.pdf

Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data

Charles Jones, Christopher Tonetti
Sep 2019   PDF icon wp1062.pdf

An Experiment in Candidate Selection

Katherine Casey, Abou Bakarr Kamara, Niccoló Meriggi
Aug 2019   PDF icon wp1052.pdf

The Effects of Primary Care Chronic-Disease Management in Rural China

Yiewei Chen, Hui Ding, Min Yu, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie, Karen Eggleston
Jul 2019   PDF icon wp1050.pdf

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Saharan Dust

Sam Heft-Neal, Jennifer Burney, Eran Bendavid, Kara Voss, Marshall Burke
Jul 2019   PDF icon wp1049.pdf

Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design

Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn
Jul 2019   PDF icon wp1048.pdf

Migration and Informal Insurance

Costas Meghir, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Corina D. Mommaerts, Melanie Morten
Jul 2019   PDF icon wp1047.pdf

How the Belt and Road Gained Steam: Causes and Implications of China's Rise in Global Infrastructure

Bushra Bataineh, Michael Bennon, Francis Fukuyama
May 2019   PDF icon wp1051.pdf

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

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