(September 2008) - We examine the impact of liquidity shocks by exploiting cross-bank liquidity
variation induced by unanticipated nuclear tests in Pakistan. We show that
for the same firm borrowing from two different banks, its loan from the bank
experiencing…

The Return to Capital in Ghana by Christopher Udry and Santosh Anagol. Published in volume 96, issue 2, pages 388-393 of American Economic Review, May 2006

(September 2001) - Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian government engaged in one of the largest school construction programs on record. Combining differences across regions in the number of schools constructed with differences across cohorts induced by…

Abstract. This paper presents a randomized field experiment on community-based monitoring of public primary health care providers in Uganda. Through two ro

This paper attempts to explain the scarcity of rigorous evaluations of public policy. I build a positive model to explain the

API-209 ANOVA ModuleThis online module was developed for the Harvard Kennedy School by Teddy Svoronos under the guidance of Dan Levy.

API-209 ANOVA ModuleThis online module was developed for the Harvard Kennedy School by Teddy Svoronos under the guidance of Dan Levy.

Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt -- by testing solutions…

Development economics is split between macro-development economists - who focus on economic growth, international trade, and fiscal/macro policies - and micro-d