Evidence from developing countries suggests that, while firms do react to both monetary policy contraction and expansion, they do not do so symmetrically. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries? Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

How can you summarise your research for a wider audience? I think it's a no-brainer to present your work in a way that's accessible to those outside academia. Having edited over 500 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I've put what I've learned into this blog: voxdev.org/topic/commun...

🆕 How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries? Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

Evidence from India suggests that women tend to wake earlier and eat later than men, leading to reduced sleep, leisure, and social time – which worsens physical and mental health outcomes. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 First to wake, last to eat: How India’s quest for gender parity begins on an unequal footing Today on VoxDev, Udayan Rathore (Wadhwani Foundation) discusses disparities in the times women wake and eat in India: voxdev.org/topic/health...

This week we featured research on saving lives, paying taxes, building roads and more! Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...

🆕 First to wake, last to eat: How India’s quest for gender parity begins on an unequal footing Today on VoxDev, Udayan Rathore (Wadhwani Foundation) discusses disparities in the times women wake and eat in India: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Extreme heat damages crops and increases the number of strongly undernourished households in terms of calories, iron, and other nutrients. While some households cope by buying food grown elsewhere, the poorest remain highly vulnerable. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Where to find development economics resources I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

Tell us how you use VoxDev! By completing this short survey, you'll be helping inform the future of VoxDev: us10.list-manage.com/survey?u=bb2...

🆕 Markets, marriage, and norms: Understanding female labour force participation in India Today on VoxDev, Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) reflects on the evidence on female labour force participation in India: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

🆕 How extreme heat determines diets in rural India Today on VoxDev, Paul Stainier (@upenn.edu), Manisha Shah (@goldmanschool.bsky.social) & @alanbarreca.bsky.social (@ioes.ucla.edu) discuss how extreme heat affects health and nutrition in India: voxdev.org/topic/health...

🆕 Markets, marriage, and norms: Understanding female labour force participation in India Today on VoxDev, Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) reflects on the evidence on female labour force participation in India: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

🆕 How extreme heat determines diets in rural India Today on VoxDev, Paul Stainier (@upenn.edu), Manisha Shah (@goldmanschool.bsky.social) & @alanbarreca.bsky.social (@ioes.ucla.edu) discuss how extreme heat affects health and nutrition in India: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

🆕 Macroeconomics and climate change 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @adrienbilal.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) discusses the research on macroeconomics and climate change – highlighting evidence gaps in mitigation, adaptation, and labour transitions: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

🆕 Macroeconomics and climate change 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @adrienbilal.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) discusses the research on macroeconomics and climate change – highlighting evidence gaps in mitigation, adaptation, and labour transitions: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

Taxpayers respond not only to how much they are taxed, but also to whether the system feels fair: inequities created by crude tax proxies can reduce compliance as much as high rates themselves. Read today's article to learn more:

While the adoption of improved fertiliser boosted agricultural productivity among rice farmers in Nigeria, the effects on tree canopy cover depended on the local landscape. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 When taxpayers see unfairness, they may stop paying their tax bill Today on VoxDev w/ Michael Best (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), Luigi Caloi, @fgerard.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk), Evan Kresch (Oberlin College), Joana Naritomi (LSE) & Laura Zoratto (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/public...

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

🆕 How interdisciplinary research is enriching development economics No discipline has a monopoly on high-quality, policy-relevant research. I've highlighted some examples of interdisciplinary research that I enjoyed reading on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/how-in...

🆕 When taxpayers see unfairness, they may stop paying their tax bill Today on VoxDev w/ Michael Best (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), Luigi Caloi, @fgerard.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk), Evan Kresch (Oberlin College), Joana Naritomi (LSE) & Laura Zoratto (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/public...

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Very useful discussion on the perils of using micro/cross-sectional parameter estimates in inferring the aggregate effects of policies/shocks. This is pervasive in Economics, yet the two effects can even have the opposite signs. (Example in next post.) voxdev.org/topic/method...

The implementation of an electronic medical records (EMR) system in Malawi’s HIV clinics has saved thousands of lives by improving clinic efficiency. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Electronic medical records save lives Today on VoxDev, @lauraderksen.bsky.social (Frischsenteret), Anita McGahan (@utoronto.ca) & Leandro Pongeluppe (The Wharton School) discuss the impact of electronic medical record systems in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...

So proud to have @voxdev.bsky.social highlight our work on how EMRs have saved lives in Malawian HIV clinics -- efficiency improving measures are even more important given drastic funding cuts to foreign aid and HIV treatment

🆕 Electronic medical records save lives Today on VoxDev, @lauraderksen.bsky.social (Frischsenteret), Anita McGahan (@utoronto.ca) & Leandro Pongeluppe (The Wharton School) discuss the impact of electronic medical record systems in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...

In Brazil, labour policy aims to support the most vulnerable workers, yet actual labour practice disproportionately supports the skilled workforce in adjusting to technological change – those workers already poised to benefit from advances in digital technologies. Read today's article to learn more

🆕 Can labour policy support workers in the new digital economy? Today on VoxDev, Carlos Corseuil (IPEA) & Jennifer Poole (@ausis.bsky.social) discuss how labour policy in Brazil disproportionately supports workers already poised to benefit from technological change: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

This week we featured research on bias, culture, labour policy, geoeconomics and more... Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...

🆕 Can labour policy support workers in the new digital economy? Today on VoxDev, Carlos Corseuil (IPEA) & Jennifer Poole (@ausis.bsky.social) discuss how labour policy in Brazil disproportionately supports workers already poised to benefit from technological change: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

Across contexts as diverse as Italy, El Salvador, Colombia, and the eastern Congo, evidence shows that what matters most is not simply a state presence but a state that effectively protects property, resolves disputes, and enforces contracts. voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

Addressing organised crime and reducing the power and reach of criminal organisations requires a careful balance between supply-side enforcement and demand-side prevention. Read our latest VoxDevLit to learn more: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Organised Crime is out now! Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

Beyond the impacts on social and community well-being, organised crime has major impacts on economic development via growth, employment, firm dynamics, investment, violence, human capital, and public health. Read our latest VoxDevLit to learn more: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

Live now! Learn about the takeaways for policy from research on organised crime. youtube.com/live/EahDK1L...

Live now! Learn about the takeaways for policy from research on organised crime. youtube.com/live/EahDK1L...

What are the root causes of organised crime? Our latest VoxDevLit identifies four broad factors: (1) weak state capacity; (2) social identity and community relations; (3) economic incentives; and (4) inadvertent policy impacts. voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

Illicit activity spans a range of contexts – including high-income democracies and low-capacity states – challenging the notion that organised crime is confined to fragile or impoverished countries. Read our VoxDevLit on Organised Crime to learn more: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Organised Crime is out now! Senior Editors @santiagotobon.bsky.social & Micaela Sviatschi @princetonecon.bsky.social review research on the roots & development impacts of organised crime. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/or...

“What you don’t want to do is you run the project and it fails, and then you kind of ex post say, ‘Oh, was that because of culture?’ Then it’s very difficult at that stage to really investigate that.” Natalie Bau on VoxDevTalks today:

Across Africa, early first-births remain the norm even as educational attainment has increased. Evidence from Zambia shows misperceptions and medical mistrust may be a key reason why. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Culture and economic development 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Natalie Bau (UCLA), @saralowes.bsky.social (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) discuss how culture shapes economic policy and, consequently, development: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

🆕 Dispelling the myth that contraceptives cause infertility increases uptake Natalie Bau (UCLA), David Henning (@oxfordcsae.bsky.social), @corinnelow.com (@upenn.edu) & Bryce Steinberg (@watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social) discuss misperceptions around contraception in Zambia: voxdev.org/topic/health...

I think this research is especially important right now as myths about contraceptives are running rampant IN THE US. Hormonal contraceptives have no long-term negative impacts on fertility. When we told women in Zambia that, they used them more! Fears of side effects are real AND we can dispel them!