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🆕 When vocational training applicants fare better in business training programmes Today on VoxDev, Juliane Zenker, Jonas Stehl, Shubha Chakravarty and Mattias Lundberg outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

When vocational training applicants fare better in business training programmesReassigning young women in Liberia from oversubscribed job-skills training into business-skills training substantially improved their employment and earnings, though the gains were concentrated among those with higher education and prior entrepreneurial experience, who had themselves underestimated their fit for business.voxdev.org

In rural India, children in private preschools learn far more than those in public ones. Unequal access to private preschools explains most of the learning gap between richer and poorer children at school entry. Read today's article to learn more:

A randomised trial in rural Ethiopia found that a single one-hour screening of documentaries featuring relatable role models produced lasting increases in farm investment, schooling, and household wealth five years on.

How did the Bengali language movement of 1952 shape Bangladesh's path to independence? In this episode of Economics Unpacked, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social explains how Bangladesh's independence movement began twenty years before the country became independence.

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🆕 Does private preschool really give children a head start? Today on VoxDev, Petter Berg (Watson School at Brown), Mauricio Romero (ITAM) & Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics) discuss private preschool advantage in rural India: https://ow.ly/7tHz50ZuE2v

Does private preschool really give children a head start?In rural India, children in private preschools learn far more than those in public ones. Unequal access to private preschools explains most of the learning gap between richer and poorer children at school entry.ow.ly

🆕 Can a one-hour documentary change long-term economic behaviour? Today on VoxDev w/ Tanguy Bernard (University of Bordeaux), @gamblingondev.bsky.social (University of Oxford), Kate Orkin, Giulio Schinaia (University of Chicago) & Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse (IFPRI): voxdev.org/topic/educat...

A new theoretical framework provides guidance about when adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing is likely to lead to better decisions – and when it might go too far and lead to policy mistakes instead. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Rethinking multiple hypothesis testing: A welfare-based approach Today on VoxDev w/ @vivianodavide.bsky.social (@harvard.edu), Kaspar Wuthrich (@umich.edu) & Paul Niehaus (@gpsucsd.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/method...

Rethinking multiple hypothesis testing: A welfare-based approachA new theoretical framework provides guidance about when adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing is likely to lead to better decisions – and when it might go too far and lead to policy mistakes inst...voxdev.org

🆕 How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Iqbal Dhaliwal (J-PAL) discusses why AI's real value in development lies in grafting it onto decades of evidence about what improves lives: https://ow.ly/eGu150Zu6gs

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India's 1980s rural bank branch expansion only had modest effects on average agricultural output, but it substantially reduced farmers' vulnerability to adverse rainfall shocks, largely by helping them sustain irrigation.

🆕 The birth of Bangladesh: How the Bhola cyclone fostered revolution 📢 Today on Economics Unpacked, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (@yalesom.bsky.social @yaleeconomics.bsky.social) explores the role of the 1970 Bhola cyclone in shaping Bangladesh's independence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03M...

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🆕 Can bank access help farmers weather climate shocks? Today on VoxDev, Liang Bai (King's College London), Camille Boudot-Reddy (Birkbeck, University of London) & André Butler (ICF) outline research on climate adaptation and financial access in India: https://ow.ly/72qR50ZtJRT

Can bank access help farmers weather climate shocks?India's 1980s rural bank branch expansion only had modest effects on average agricultural output, but it substantially reduced farmers' vulnerability to adverse rainfall shocks, largely by helping them sustain irrigation.ow.ly

Ethiopia’s Tigray War not only caused immense human suffering and economic disruption but also eroded trust within local communities. Read today's article to learn more:

What happens when the informal sector isn't taken into account in policymaking? In our most recent episode of Economics Unpacked, @gulyssea.bsky.social illustrates this using minimum wage as an example. Link below ⤵️

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🆕 How violent conflict erodes community trust Today on VoxDev, Richard Freund (MIDE Development) & Marta Favara (Young Lives) outline research on violent conflicts in Ethiopia: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/how-violent-conflict-erodes-community-trust

How violent conflict erodes community trustEthiopia’s Tigray War not only caused immense human suffering and economic disruption but also eroded trust within local communities. New evidence from the Young Lives study shows that individuals exposed to violence report lower trust in their neighbours, highlighting how civil war can damage the social ties that underpin cooperation and recovery after the fighting ends.voxdev.org

College students in sub-Saharan Africa can be as food insecure as the ultra-poor, but modest financial support may yield large returns for wellbeing.

This week we featured research on agricultural advice, forecasting, formalisation and more! You can read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-24072026

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 24/07/2026This week we featured research on agricultural advice, forecasting, formalisation and more!voxdev.org

🆕 How financial aid could transform student welfare in sub-Saharan Africa Today on VoxDev, Natalie Bau (UCLA), Corinne Low (Wharton School), Simona Simona (University of Zambia) & Bryce Steinberg (Watson School at Brown) outline research on Zambia: https://ow.ly/8E5z50ZsbV3

How financial aid could transform student welfare in sub-Saharan AfricaCollege students in sub-Saharan Africa can be as food insecure as the ultra-poor, but modest financial support may yield large returns for wellbeing.ow.ly

A 2015 documentary exposing China's air pollution led to measurable declines in land transaction value and area in more-exposed Chinese cities, as residents reconsidered where to live. The effect was strongest in cities reliant on land-based finance and for lower-quality, peripheral land parcels.

When tax enforcement depends on geography, firms may choose to locate where taxes are easier to evade rather than where they are most productive. A Chinese reform that standardised VAT enforcement across rugged and flatter counties reduced this misallocation.