When and how do governments deliver public goods and services in response to citizen
preferences? We review the current literature on government responsiveness, with a focus …

Institutions are a key determinant of economic growth, but the critical junctures in which
institutions can change are not precisely defined. For example, such junctures are often …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

We investigate whether foreign aid from China is prone to political capture in aid-receiving
countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the birth …

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

We demonstrate the importance of politician social networks for electoral outcomes. Using
large-scale data on family networks from over 20 million individuals in 15,000 villages in the …

¿ Cómo se puede resolver este rompecabezas de mayores demandas y fortalecimiento
fiscal? Esta edición de Desarrollo en las Américas (DIA) se centra precisamente en esta …

In the context of an exponential rise in access to information in the last two decades, this
special issue explores when and how information might be harnessed to improve …

The 2020 pandemic shocked a world already shaken by mistrust and social polarization.
Lives and jobs were lost despite the best efforts of governments to contain COVID-19 and …

How can this puzzle of larger demands and fiscal strengthening be solved? This edition of
the development in the Americas (DIA) report focuses precisely on this question. The book …