Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries—in education, personal
autonomy, and more—explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are …

Differences in technology levels across countries account for a large component of the
differences in wages and per-capita GDP across countries worldwide. This article reviews …

For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50 years, African agriculture will
have to change beyond recognition. Production will have to have increased massively, but …

Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We
provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural …

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry
on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare
programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the …

To what extent does gender equality contribute to economic growth? And to what extent
does the reverse relationship hold true? There are a growing number of studies exploring …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to
be competitive in a modern economy? And what would accomplishing this mean for world …

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the
behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill …

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then,
about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic …