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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on the Political Economy of Public Service Delivery is out now!
In this VoxDevLit, Senior Editor @claudferraz (@ubcVSE) reviews the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/politic…
"Owners prefer to keep their tractors close to home, even if there are better opportunities further away, and that leads to misallocation.” Sophie Nottmeyer on VoxDevTalks today:
🆕 How digital monitoring gets tractors to the most productive farms 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Sophie Nottmeyer (@Banxico) discusses how GPS tracking sends Kenya’s tractors to more productive farms, expanding their range by 80%: voxdev.org/topic/agriculture…
In China, guaranteeing auction winners a fixed share of public hospital purchases cut generic drug prices by around 40% and led winning firms to spend less on marketing.
Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 How centralised procurement cuts drug prices and pharmaceutical marketing
Today on VoxDev, @Chenyuan_Liu (@SEM_Tsinghua), Yi Lu & Wanyu Yang (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) discuss research in China: voxdev.org/topic/health/how-…
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🆕 How digital monitoring gets tractors to the most productive farms 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Sophie Nottmeyer (@Banxico) discusses how GPS tracking sends Kenya’s tractors to more productive farms, expanding their range by 80%: voxdev.org/topic/agriculture…
VoxDev retweeted
🆕 How centralised procurement cuts drug prices and pharmaceutical marketing
Today on VoxDev, @Chenyuan_Liu (@SEM_Tsinghua), Yi Lu & Wanyu Yang (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) discuss research in China: voxdev.org/topic/health/how-…
Transmission losses drive electricity productivity gaps 📢
Last week on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, @martinsyshu (@CUHKofficial) discussed why electricity productivity is closer to the global frontier than expected: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
🆕 How digital monitoring gets tractors to the most productive farms 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Sophie Nottmeyer (@Banxico) discusses how GPS tracking sends Kenya’s tractors to more productive farms, expanding their range by 80%: voxdev.org/topic/agriculture…
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Happy to see our @vox_dev article live! Universities often have free counselling on campus, yet most students in distress don't use it. Our piece asks what affordable tools can close this treatment gap, and argues that peer sharing and engagement are a promising lever.
🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?
Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…
How corporate investors boost AI innovation through data access
Last month on VoxDev, Jian Xie (Southern University of Science and Technology) & Kang Zhou (@ZJU_China) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/technology-…
🆕 How centralised procurement cuts drug prices and pharmaceutical marketing
Today on VoxDev, @Chenyuan_Liu (@SEM_Tsinghua), Yi Lu & Wanyu Yang (Dongbei University of Finance and Economics) discuss research in China: voxdev.org/topic/health/how-…
Weak property rights and lax enforcement fuel tropical forest fires
Last week on VoxDev, Clare Balboni (@LSEEcon), Robin Burgess & Benjamin Olken (@MITEcon) outlined research on Indonesia: voxdev.org/topic/energy-envi…
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Extremely happy to see our research featured in VoxDev! 😃
Give it a read!
🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?
Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…
Critical minerals scramble: Turning a windfall into development 📢
Last week on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Christopher Adam (@ODID_QEH) discussed why the critical minerals windfall may be short-lived, and how producer countries can capture its gains: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
Evidence from a survey experiment in Mexico shows that correcting misconceptions about therapy makes university students more likely to share counselling information with peers, while raising therapy use only among students who had recently used it.
ALT Effects of the intervention on sharing the professional support link
🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?
Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…
How to fund social insurance without pushing workers into informality
Last week on VoxDev, Jin Feng (@FudanUniversity), Yuting Li (@SCUCN) & Yu Liu (Fudan University) outlined research on China: voxdev.org/topic/firms/how-f…
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🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?
Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…
When banning foreign products backfires on domestic firms
Last month on VoxDev, Chirantan Chatterjee (@SussexUni), Ying Fan (@umichECON) & Debi Prasad Mohapatra (@UMassAmherst) outlined research on India: voxdev.org/topic/trade/when-…
🆕 Implementation science in education: Scaling what works 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks @timsvengali, @angrist_noam (@WWHGlobalEd) discusses why implementing proven education interventions at scale is harder than finding them, and how a new framework can help: voxdev.org/topic/education/i…
🆕 Can correcting misconceptions about therapy help students seek care?
Today on VoxDev w/ Alisher Batmanov (@UCSanDiego), @_IdaGri, Bruno Calderon-Hernandez (@umichpolisci), Roberto Gonzalez-Tellez (@StanfordGSB) & Alejandro Guardiola Ramírez: voxdev.org/topic/health/can-…
No taxation without administration: What makes tax authorities work 📢
Last month on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School) & @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) discussed why tax administration design matters for revenue: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
Can role models uplift marginalised communities?
Last week on VoxDev, Gaia Narciso (@tcdeconomics), Carol Newman & @FinnsAngle (@uni_copenhagen) outlined research on Vietnam: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
