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@voxdev.bsky.socialGlobal evidence from 2,041 cities linked to 33,262 mines producing 23 minerals shows that resource booms reshape local employment patterns far more than they drive urbanisation.
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Mining booms move workers from farms to services, not factories
Today on VoxDev, @qing-ucsb.bsky.social (Renmin University of China), @victoriawenxinx.bsky.social (Santa Clara University) & Wei You (Peking University) discuss global evidence on mining: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
@voxdev.bsky.socialThis week we featured research on interest rates, health insurance, social welfare and more!
You can read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...
@voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Mining booms move workers from farms to services, not factories
Today on VoxDev, @qing-ucsb.bsky.social (Renmin University of China), @victoriawenxinx.bsky.social (Santa Clara University) & Wei You (Peking University) discuss global evidence on mining: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
@voxdev.bsky.socialWhen Colombia shut down its largest health insurer, mortality rose not only among its enrolees but also among patients who were never enrolled with it. The reason is that incumbent insurers reduced the number of hospitals, clinics, and doctors their patients could visit.
@voxdev.bsky.socialIn 2016, the UN doubled the cash it paid Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan, and 363,000 people went home in the middle of the fighting season. New research finds that policy-induced return reduced insurgent violence but made it deadlier.
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 How health insurers’ network decisions affect patient mortality
Today on VoxDev w/ Giancarlo Buitrago (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes (Universidad del Rosario), Natalia Serna (Stanford University) & @papiteide.bsky.social (UCL): voxdev.org/topic/health...
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Paying refugees to go home: Lessons from Afghanistan’s cash-for-return experiment
Today on VoxDev w/ @chriswblair.bsky.social (@princeton.edu), @packlesshepherd.bsky.social (University of Virginia) & @austinlw.bsky.social (@harrispolicy.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
@voxdev.bsky.social🆕 How health insurers’ network decisions affect patient mortality
Today on VoxDev w/ Giancarlo Buitrago (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes (Universidad del Rosario), Natalia Serna (Stanford University) & @papiteide.bsky.social (UCL): voxdev.org/topic/health...
@voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Paying refugees to go home: Lessons from Afghanistan’s cash-for-return experiment
Today on VoxDev w/ @chriswblair.bsky.social (@princeton.edu), @packlesshepherd.bsky.social (University of Virginia) & @austinlw.bsky.social (@harrispolicy.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
@voxdev.bsky.social"We can't draw the same conclusions from one nice, beautifully done trial as we can from an accumulated mountain of evidence, and so we should just be conscious of this." Chris Cotton on VoxDevTalks today:
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Chris Cotton (Queen's University) discusses why one good study is not enough for confident policymaking, and how a new four-level evidence scale helps: voxdev.org/topic/method...
@voxdev.bsky.socialExperiments in Uganda reveal that employers and workers prefer to share income through paid work rather than cash, even when the work produces nothing, suggesting that some overstaffing reflects social support rather than inefficiency.
@voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Chris Cotton (Queen's University) discusses why one good study is not enough for confident policymaking, and how a new four-level evidence scale helps: voxdev.org/topic/method...
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Work over cash: Why employers and workers prefer jobs to handouts
Today on VoxDev, Elisa Macchi (@brown.edu) & @jeremiastalder.bsky.social (University of St. Gallen) outline evidence on Uganda: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
@voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Work over cash: Why employers and workers prefer jobs to handouts
Today on VoxDev, Elisa Macchi (@brown.edu) & @jeremiastalder.bsky.social (University of St. Gallen) outline evidence on Uganda: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
@voxdev.bsky.socialNepal’s civil service serves political parties more than it serves the public, and is a first-order constraint on growth. The new government has a rare opportunity to change this, but it will only work if reformers treat de-politicisation as a political project, not a technical one.
@voxdev.bsky.socialA lab experiment in Côte d’Ivoire finds that making applications for cash support public reduced unsuccessful claims but also deterred more than one in four eligible participants.
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Can Nepal depoliticise its civil service?
Today on VoxDev, Open Political Economy Analysis Programme (CSAE) discuss civil service reform in Nepal: https://voxdev.org/topic/public-economics/can-nepal-depoliticise-its-civil-service
@voxdev.bsky.socialReposted by @voxdev.bsky.social🆕 Asking for help in public: Why eligible people may not claim welfare
Today on VoxDev, Marcel Fafchamps (FSI Stanford) & Fadela Sadou Zouleya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) outline evidence on cash support in Côte d’Ivoire: https://ow.ly/EtcW50ZUPty
