VoxDev

Development economics, research to practice

@bjorkmanmartina M Callen @cesicruz @LagakosDavid J Naritomi @oliverhanney @emaansiddique

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[VoxDev @vox_dev]

📢 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: https://t.co/uIaiOjFRiO

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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%: https://t.co/1TMOMBMK1h

[Alisher Batmanov @Alisher_BV]

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.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/znotwngDeX

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/FaJqLCMisb

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/ZQhl9WloEx

[Roberto 🧉 @robert_gonz]

Extremely happy to see our research featured in VoxDev! 😃

Give it a read!

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/O9EngZCvFl

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/lqAaTVlyul

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/sYe7AJY7MD

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/lqAaTVlyul

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/ebEWqgjR9e

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/PxQlQbCMcK

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/lqAaTVlyul

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/c8ehMGtcaU

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Can role models uplift marginalised communities?

Last week on VoxDev, Gaia Narciso (@tcdeconomics), Carol Newman & @FinnsAngle (@uni_copenhagen) outlined research on Vietnam: https://t.co/moXm2Pncvw

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/1QdLhNqRb9

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/1QdLhNqRb9

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/XQ5Y1ZRmSu

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

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: https://t.co/ohsNY9V8Wm

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 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: https://t.co/1QdLhNqRb9