Journal ArticlePLoS medicine · March 2025
BackgroundDiarrhea and growth faltering in early childhood reduce survival and impair neurodevelopment. We assessed whether a national program combining (i) funds for latrine and water upgrades; (ii) institutional strengthening; and (iii) behavior ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Development Studies · January 1, 2025
While a growing literature analyzes the economic effects of cash for work programs in developing countries, there remains little evidence about the longer-term effects of these interventions. This paper presents findings from a randomized controlled trial ...
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Journal ArticleThe World Bank Research Observer · December 14, 2024
AbstractMany low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have introduced public works programs that offer temporary cash-for-work opportunities to poor individuals. We review experimental evidence on the impact ...
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Journal ArticleThe World Bank Economic Review · October 24, 2024
AbstractDid a workfare program in Eastern Congo have a lasting impact on economic and sociopolitical outcomes? Men and women in Eastern Congo were randomly assigned to 2,674 four-month job offers, or to the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Development Economics · October 1, 2023
Is it possible to stimulate women's income-generating activities by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? We examine these questions using a three-arm randomized-controlled trial with 200 ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Economics and Statistics · January 6, 2023
Will the fast expansion of cash-based programming in poor countries increase international migration? Theoretically, cash transfers may deter migration by increasing its opportunity cost or favor migration by re-laxing liquidity, credit, and risk constrain ...
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Journal ArticleTropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · September 2022
ObjectiveThe government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) responded to COVID-19 with policy measures, such as business and school closures and distribution of vaccines, which rely on citizen compliance. In other settings, prior experience ...
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Journal ArticleQuarterly Journal of Political Science · April 28, 2022
The problem of traditional leadership is often conceived as one of low accountability due to a single unelected leader having unchecked power within communities. Instead, we argue there are strong norms of collective deliberation in most traditional politi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Development Economics · November 1, 2021
Integrating youth into communities and labor markets is a major challenge for developing countries, and incentives for community service are an increasingly popular tool to achieve this goal. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Kazakhstan ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Global Health · May 17, 2021
Introduction Inadequate water and sanitation is a central challenge in global health. Since 2008, the Democratic Republic of Congo government has implemented a national programme, Healthy Villages and Schools (Villages et Ecoles Assainis (VEA), with suppor ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Peace Research · May 1, 2021
Peacekeeping operations are integral to multilateral strategies to help establish stable, self-sustaining peace and development in countries coming out of civil war. While we know, from macro-level empirical studies, that these operations contribute to the ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · October 1, 2018
Household decisions about child labor are influenced by income, uncertainty, and relative returns to work and education. The complexity of the phenomenon implies that a large set of policy instruments can be used to address child labor or can affect child ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · September 1, 2018
This article uses original survey data to study the effects of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) on the political attitudes and behaviors of ordinary Liberians. Three results emerge: (i) UNMIL has positive, statistically significant effects on ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · July 1, 2017
We use a cluster-randomized field experiment to study two strategies to promote free democratic expression among rural voters in Liberia's 2011 general election. The context is one of a fragile state in which destructive legacies of Liberia's 1989–2003 civ ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Politics · August 3, 2015
Numerous recent field and laboratory experiments find that elections cause higher subsequent levels of collective action within groups. This article questions whether effects observed in these novel environments apply when traditional institutions are demo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Conflict Resolution · August 1, 2013
Considerable resources are devoted to ex-combatant reintegration programs in current peace processes, but evidence on their effectiveness remains thin. We use original survey data to study an ex-combatant reintegration program implemented after Burundi's 1 ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Studies · April 1, 2008
The work linking natural resource wealth to authoritarianism and under-development suffers from several shortcomings. In this article, the authors outline those shortcomings and address them in a new empirical setting. Using a new data set for the U.S. sta ...
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