This article reviews the economic literature on informality, its causes, and its consequences
for development. It covers a comprehensive body of research that ranges from well-identified …

Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly recognized as a scalable intervention to alleviate
financial hardship. A large body of evidence evaluates the impact of CTs on subjective well …

How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central
question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one‐time …

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the
future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change …

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural
Kenya to unconditional cash transfers from the NGO GiveDirectly. The transfers differ from …

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue
that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …

There is increasing evidence that cash transfer (CT) programs decrease intimate partner
violence (IPV). However, little is known about how CTs achieve this impact. We conducted a …

Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have received a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska
Permanent Fund. Using the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, this …

There has been a lack of debate between and frameworks for theories of the causes of
poverty. This article proposes that most theories of poverty can be productively categorized …

Should developing countries give all of their citizens enough money to live on? Interest in
this idea has grown enormously in recent years, reflecting both positive results from a …