This article offers the first comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary state of knowledge
regarding anti-corruption policies, with a particular focus on reducing corruption among civil …

The scholarly literature on corruption has developed in separate disciplines, each of which
has produced important insights, but each of which also has some crucial limitations. We …

Antipoverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular,
many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely to targeted beneficiaries …

This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments “at scale.” We review
various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss …

When do politicians prompt bureaucrats to provide effective services? Leveraging the
uneven overlap of jurisdictions in India, we compare bureaucrats supervised by a single …

Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its
welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road construction programme in …

This article assesses the potential contribution of economic experiments to evidence-based
policy making in the field of agriculture, with a special focus on the European Union (EU)'s …

In the ten years since the rollout of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
(NREGS), there has been much research on its implementation and impact. This paper …

I test the land and labor market effects of a property rights reform that computerized rural
land records in Pakistan, making digitized records and automated transactions accessible to …

Financial inclusion, or providing access to and active use of affordable financial products to
the 2 billion unbanked adults globally, can facilitate individual prosperity, reduce poverty …