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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on the Political Economy of Public Service Delivery is out now! In this VoxDevLit, Senior Editor @claudferraz (@ubcVSE) reviews the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/politic…
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🆕 How digital monitoring gets tractors to the most productive farms 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Sophie Nottmeyer (@Banxico) discusses how GPS tracking sends Kenya’s tractors to more productive farms, expanding their range by 80%: voxdev.org/topic/agriculture…

How digital monitoring gets tractors to the most productive farms

In tractor rental markets, owners who cannot observe their operators keep machines close to home, leaving farmers in more productive, remote areas without access to mechanisation. Evidence from...

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Happy to see our @vox_dev article live! Universities often have free counselling on campus, yet most students in distress don't use it. Our piece asks what affordable tools can close this treatment gap, and argues that peer sharing and engagement are a promising lever.
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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care? Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…

Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?

Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy...

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How corporate investors boost AI innovation through data access Last month on VoxDev, Jian Xie (Southern University of Science and Technology) & Kang Zhou (@ZJU_China) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…

How corporate investors boost AI innovation through data access

Evidence from China suggests that big tech investment helps AI startups innovate by easing access to data, with implications for competition.

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🆕 How centralised procurement cuts drug prices and pharmaceutical marketing Today on VoxDev, @Chenyuan_Liu (@SEM_Tsinghua), Yi Lu & Wanyu Yang (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) discuss research in China: voxdev.org/topic/health/how-…

How centralised procurement cuts drug prices and pharmaceutical marketing

In China, guaranteeing auction winners a fixed share of public hospital purchases cut generic drug prices by around 40% and led winning firms to spend less on marketing, showing that procurement...

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Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires Last week on VoxDev, Clare Balboni (@LSEEcon), Robin Burgess & Benjamin Olken (@MITEcon) outlined research on Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…

Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires

Indonesian firms burn more forest land when the fire spread risk falls on unclaimed land. Clearer property rights and credible penalties could cut fires by half.

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Extremely happy to see our research featured in VoxDev! 😃 Give it a read!
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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care? Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…

Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?

Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy...

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Critical minerals scramble: Turning a windfall into development 📢 Last week on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Christopher Adam (@ODID_QEH) discussed why the critical minerals windfall may be short-lived, and how producer countries can capture its gains: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy use only among students who had recently used it.
Effects of the intervention on sharing the professional support link

ALT Effects of the intervention on sharing the professional support link

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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care? Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…

Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?

Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy...

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How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality Last week on VoxDev, Jin Feng (@FudanUniversity), Yuting Li (@SCUCN) & Yu Liu (Fudan University) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/firms/how-f…

How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality

Stronger collection of social insurance contributions in China reduced formal firm entry and shifted workers towards informal jobs.

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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care? Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…

Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?

Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy...

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When banning foreign products backfires on domestic firms Last month on VoxDev, Chirantan Chatterjee (@SussexUni), Ying Fan (@umichECON) & Debi Prasad Mohapatra (@UMassAmherst) outlined research on India: voxdev.org/topic/trade/when-…

When banning foreign products backfires on domestic firms

Governments increasingly turn to protection and targeted subsidies to help domestic firms compete with foreign rivals. Using India's 4G rollout as a case study, we show why industrial policy needs to...

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🆕 Implementation science in education: Scaling what works 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks @timsvengali, @angrist_noam (@WWHGlobalEd) discusses why implementing proven education interventions at scale is harder than finding them, and how a new framework can help: voxdev.org/topic/education/i…
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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care? Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…

Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?

Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy...

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No taxation without administration: What makes tax authorities work 📢 Last month on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School) & @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) discussed why tax administration design matters for revenue: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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Can role models uplift marginalised communities? Last week on VoxDev, Gaia Narciso (@tcdeconomics), Carol Newman & @FinnsAngle (@uni_copenhagen) outlined research on Vietnam: voxdev.org/topic/institution…

Can role models uplift marginalised communities?

In Vietnam, a low-cost video intervention featuring successful entrepreneurs briefly raised ethnic minority farmers' belief in their own agency. However, it did not raise household incomes, and for...

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In Ethiopia, subsidising vacancy-posting costs leads small and medium-sized enterprises to advertise publicly and create more white-collar positions, which they then struggle to fill.
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🆕 When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs Today on VoxDev, @LukasHenselEcon (@GSM_PKU), @TsegayTselassie (@Wellesley) & @marcjosefwitte (@VU_SBE) outline research in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…

When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs

In Ethiopia, subsidising vacancy-posting costs leads small and medium-sized enterprises to advertise publicly and create more white-collar positions, which they then struggle to fill.

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🆕 When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs Today on VoxDev, @LukasHenselEcon (@GSM_PKU), @TsegayTselassie (@Wellesley) & @marcjosefwitte (@VU_SBE) outline research in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…

When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs

In Ethiopia, subsidising vacancy-posting costs leads small and medium-sized enterprises to advertise publicly and create more white-collar positions, which they then struggle to fill.

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Can we detect when a country's institutions are about to change? Last week on VoxDev w/ Michael Callen (@LSEEcon), Gregory Levy (@OxfordEconDept), Saipremnath Muthukumaran, @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) & Noam Yuchtman: voxdev.org/topic/institution…

Can we detect when a country's institutions are about to change?

Using AI to analyse 120 years of newspaper coverage produces a new index of uncertainty about a country's core institutions, and in the countries studied, nearly every major shift in democracy...

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What the coming wave of AI philanthropy means for development Last month on VoxDev, Jack Lewars (Ultra Philanthropy) discussed how development organisations can position themselves for the third wave of philanthropy: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…

What the coming wave of AI philanthropy means for development

How can development organisations and researchers position themselves for the third wave of US philanthropy?

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🆕 When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs Today on VoxDev, @LukasHenselEcon (@GSM_PKU), @TsegayTselassie (@Wellesley) & @marcjosefwitte (@VU_SBE) outline research in Ethiopia: voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…

When cheaper job ads lead to harder-to-fill jobs

In Ethiopia, subsidising vacancy-posting costs leads small and medium-sized enterprises to advertise publicly and create more white-collar positions, which they then struggle to fill.

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