BACKGROUND Sustainably raising agricultural productivity for the 2 billion people living in
smallholder farming households in the develo** world is critical for reducing world poverty …

We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with
colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents' effort choices in …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

This paper investigates whether NGO-provided basic healthcare crowds out or crowds in
similar services provided by the government in rural Uganda. We find that NGO entry …

This article investigates the effects of development projects on economic networks. To this
end, we study the impact that a randomly allocated Community-Driven Development …

Despite large schooling and learning gains in many develo** countries, children in highly
deprived areas are often unlikely to achieve even basic literacy and numeracy. We study …

This paper provides the first systematic empirical examination of bureaucratic nepotism and
anti-nepotism legislation using data from an entire modern bureaucracy. By linking …

Using exogenous variation in social proximity generated by an allocation rule, we find that
bureaucrats assigned to their home states are perceived to be more corrupt and less able to …

How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using
novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new …

In the context of emerging digital advisory services that can make a potential difference in
sustainable farming practices, this article analyzes the connection between on-farm human …