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Working Papers

The Stanford 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 668 publications
Format: 2020

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

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

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