BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Macroeconomic development remains an important policy goal because of its ability to lift
entire populations out of poverty. In our review of the literature, we emphasize that the best …

We study the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development
(SEED) program, an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school …

Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of
poverty, but they require labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered …

We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating
with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female …

This paper provides evidence of matching frictions in the Indian labor market. Using several
methods to elicit genuine preferences of job-seekers over jobs, we show that:(a) there is …

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for
migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these …

Is the type of financial support provided to businesses more important than which
businesses receive it? Loans and grants can lead to differences in optimal investments and …

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high
school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled …

Youth entrepreneurship is an increasingly prominent aspect of entrepreneurship support
policies, but there is surprisingly little relevant research-based empirical evidence. This …