The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

Credibly identifying how the built environment shapes behaviour is empirically challenging,
because people select residential locations based on differing constraints and preferences …

Growing concerns over family separations draw renewed attention to temporary work
migration and the factors shaping it. We leverage the randomized timing in a Chinese re …

Can place-based policies promote urban development beyond their footprints? We estimate
the spillover effects of public housing projects in South Africa by comparing changes near …

Do informal housing conditions constrain labour supply? I estimate the effect of receiving a
free house under the South African government's housing program, which has given away …

Executive summary Ethiopia is the second most populous and the fifth least urbanised
country in Africa. Just 21% of the population lives in cities, well below the sub-Saharan …

We report on a large-scale urban resettlement program in Uruguay. Under the program,
thousands of low-to middle-income households were randomly assigned over the course of …

We review the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social
mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible …

Do better material conditions improve well-being and mental health? Or does any positive
relationship merely reflect that well-being promotes economic success? We compare …

Exploiting the variation in wealth created by an Ethiopian housing lottery, we show that
general attitudes towards redistribution and inequality aversion are not affected by a large …