Corruption in Developing Countries by Olken, Benjamin A., Pande, Rohini

“…We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency consequences of corruption, and what determines the level of corruption? …”
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The Geographic Concentration of Enterprise in Developing Countries by Felkner, John S., Townsend, Robert

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How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in Developing Countries by Atkin, David G

“…This review summarizes the recent literature that assesses how these characteristics interact (or may interact) with trade reforms, resulting in different impacts in developing countries relative to what we would expect in developed countries. …”
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Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries by Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin

“…While future economic growth should continue to reduce poverty, it will not solve the problem by itself; thus, there is a potentially important role for national-level transfer programs that assist poor families in developing countries. Such programs are often run by developing country governments. …”
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Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries: A General Framework with Applications for Education by Dhaliwal, Iqbal, Duflo, Esther, Glennerster, Rachel, Tulloch, Caitlin

“…In this paper we discuss how comparative cost-effectiveness analyses can help inform policy in developing countries and the underlying methodological assumptions necessary for performing this kind of analysis. …”
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The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia’s National Health Insurance by Banerjee, Abhijit, Finkelstein, Amy, Hanna, Rema, Olken, Benjamin A, Ornaghi, Arianna, Sumarto, Sudarno

“…<jats:p> To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a government health insurance program with a weakly enforced mandate. …”
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Informal Taxation by Olken, Benjamin A., Singhal, Monica

“…Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public fi nance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications of this "informal taxation." …”
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Giving Credit Where It Is Due by Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther

“…This paper shows how the productive interplay of theory and experimental work has furthered our understanding of credit markets in developing countries. Descriptive facts motivated a body of theory, which in turned motivated experiments designed to test it. …”
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Why Does Misallocation Persist? by Banerjee, Abhijit, Moll, Benjamin

“…This argument is underpinned by empirical evidence documenting substantial dispersion in the marginal products of resources, particularly capital, in developing countries. But why does misallocation persists? …”
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Banerjee, Duflo, Kremer, and the Rise of Modern Development Economics by Olken, Benjamin

“…I discuss pioneering contributions in understanding the challenges of education, service delivery, and credit markets in developing countries, as well as how the experimental approach has spread to virtually all aspects of development economics.…”
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Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption across Countries by Cavallo, Alberto F., Diewert, W. Erwin, Feenstra, Robert C., Inklaar, Robert, Timmer, Marcel P.

“…We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in 2011 and the OECD in 2014, and can be used to obtain more up-to-date estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. …”
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Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs by Hanna, Rema, Banerjee, Abhijit, Kreindler, Gabriel Emanuel, Olken, Benjamin

“…We re-analyze the data from seven randomized controlled trials of government-run cash transfer programs in six developing countries throughout the world, and find no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work.…”
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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia by Kyle, Jordan, Sumarto, Sudarno, Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema N., Olken, Benjamin

“…Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. …”
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Designing Anti-Poverty Programs in Emerging Economies in the 21st Century: Lessons from Indonesia for the World by Olken, Benjamin

“…Governments of developing countries around the world have dramatically expanded social protection programs for the poor in recent decades. …”
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves by Rema, Hanna, Greenstone, Michael, Duflo, Esther

“…Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution, improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. We provide evidence, from a large-scale randomized trial in India, on the benefits of a common, laboratory-validated stove with a four-year follow-up. …”
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Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Fluctuations? Evidence from India’s Famine Era by Burgess, Robin, Donaldson, David John

“…Rural citizens in developing countries today, however, remain highly exposed to fluctuations in the weather. …”
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The Missing “Missing Middle” by Hsieh, Chang-Tai, Olken, Benjamin A.

“…Although a large literature seeks to explain the "missing middle" of mid-sized firms in developing countries, there is surprisingly little empirical backing for existence of the missing middle. …”
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The Economics of Labor Coercion by Acemoglu, Daron, Wolitzky, Alexander Greenberg

“…The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are “coercive,” in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. …”
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