Perceptions about others play an important role in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

Classic arguments for decentralization, augmented by ideas about how participation
empowers the poor, motivate the widely used approach in foreign aid called community …

Using field experiments, scholars can identify causal effects via randomization while
studying people and groups in their naturally occurring contexts. In light of renewed interest …

Quantitative analysis of causal effects in political science has trended toward the adoption of
“causal empiricist” approaches. Such approaches place heavy emphasis on causal …

We study how the spread of the Lost Cause narrative-a revisionist and racist retelling of the
US Civil War-shifted both opinions and behaviors toward reunifying the country and racially …

Civil wars divide nations along social, economic, and political cleavages, often pitting one
neighbor against another. To restore social cohesion, many countries undertake truth and …

Does foreign aid build peace? The answer is of paramount importance for policy makers
and practitioners, given that the world's poor are growing increasingly concentrated in …

In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation. Women's political
participation is important both on normative grounds of inclusion and because when women …

This article investigates the effects of development projects on economic networks. To this
end, we study the impact that a randomly allocated Community-Driven Development …

Despite the abundance of evidence that peacekeeping works, we know little about what
actually makes peacekeepers effective. Recent work suggesting that local agendas are …