Personalising schemes which incentivise exercise substantially increases their performance compared to one-size-fits-all approaches.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Ariel Zucker (University of California, Santa Cruz) joins us to discuss research with Rebecca Dizon-Ross on diabetes and hypertension in urban India: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/targeting-health-incentives-india

🆕 Air pollution and infant mortality.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Jennifer Burney (UC San Diego) joins us to discuss how the impacts of pollution on health can be estimated and what lessons policymakers can draw from research in this area: https://voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment/air-pollution-and-infant-mortality

🆕 Unpacking multi-faceted anti-poverty programmes.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, our new Editorial Board member Robert Darko Osei (University of Ghana, Legon) joins us to discuss research in #Ghana comparing individual interventions to multi-faceted programmes. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/public-economics/unpacking-multi-faceted-anti-poverty-programmes

Evidence from a participatory development experiment in #Ghana shows that political insiders lose out when international aid underperforms.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Kate Baldwin (Yale University) joins us to discuss her research with Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry and Ernest Appiah, showing aid's complex distributional consequences. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/politics-and-participatory-development-ghana

Globalisation and the ladder of development.

Does international trade always push countries up the ladder of development? Today on #VoxDevTalks, David Atkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) joins us to discuss research with Arnaud Costinot and Masao Fukui. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/globalisation-and-ladder-development

How can development economics respond to the challenges of the 21st century?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, in an episode recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, Esther Duflo talks to Tim Phillips about development economics in the 21st century: https://voxdev.org/topic/methods-measurement/development-21st-century

What does recent evidence tell us are “Smart Buys” for improving learning in low- and middle-income countries?

This week on #VoxDevTalks, Rachel Glennerster joins us to outline the key takeaways from the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP)'s new report: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/policies-improve-global-learning

Expanding higher education empowered women in Egypt.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Ahmed Elsayed joined us to discuss research with Alina Shirshikova on the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/expanding-higher-education-empowered-women-egypt

Evidence from #China shows why autocrats may introduce local elections and how this can affect policy.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, we are joined by Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management) to discuss the rise and fall of local elections in China: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/local-elections-china

Does exposure to other ethnic regions promote national integration?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Oyebola Okunogbe (World Bank) joins us to discuss new evidence on promoting national integration in Nigeria. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/promoting-national-integration-nigeria

How does rebel governance affect long-term development?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University) joins us to discuss new research with Antonella Bandiera, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Juan Miguel Jimenez and Sandra V. Rozo on the economic, social and political consequences of temporary territorial control by guerrillas during the Salvadoran Civil War. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/rebel-governance-and-development-el-salvador

Providing access to #childcare can help women achieve greater economic parity and enhance their agency, and could also lead to a substantial boost to the global economy.

Last week on #VoxDevTalks, Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin) joined us to discuss the key takeaways from a recent J-PAL policy insight: https://voxdev.org/topic/labour-markets-migration/how-childcare-empowers-women

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Zulfiqar Bhutta (SickKids Foundation, Aga Khan University), a global leader in implementing large-scale public health programmes in developing countries, joins us to discuss what he has learned about working with communities to improve their health, how failure can often be a positive learning experience, and what clinicians can learn from – and teach – economists.

Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/research-practice-lessons-healthcare

Monitoring drivers raised effort on average, but broke the trust between managers and well-performing drivers.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Golvine de Rochambeau discusses new research in #Liberia which shows how monitoring workers can backfire. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/how-monitoring-workers-can-backfire-evidence-truck-drivers-liberia

Mothers and fathers spend differently on daughters relative to sons, which can perpetuate the benefits of empowering women today.

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Rebecca Dizon-Ross joins us to discuss new research in #Uganda with Seema Jayachandran. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: http://ow.ly/ez1g50NiEqT

What are the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market for a low-income country?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Nina Pavcnik joined us at the STEG conference to discuss new research with Brian McCaig and Woan Foong Wong. Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/fdi-inflows-and-domestic-firms-evidence-vietnam

In today's episode of #VoxDevTalks, Tom Vogl joins us to discuss recent research with Frances Lu which studies the intergenerational persistence of inequality by focusing on grandmother-mother associations in the loss of a child.

Listen here: https://voxdev.org/topic/health-education/how-child-mortality-persists-across-generations

In Mexico, where grandmothers are a key source of childcare for families, their death results in a reduction in the employment rate of the mother, who disproportionately assumes the responsibility of childcare.

Listen to Miguel Ángel Talamas Marcos outline his research on our latest episode of #VoxDevTalks: http://ow.ly/4Gco50MMMiH

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Did joint ventures help China's automobile industry?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School) joins us to discuss work with Panle Jia Barwick, Shengmao Cao & Shanjun Li on whether FDI facilitated knowledge spillovers & quality upgrades in #China: https://voxdev.org/topic/firms-trade/did-joint-ventures-help-chinas-automobile-industry

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Did joint ventures help China's automobile industry?

Today on #VoxDevTalks, Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School) joins us to discuss work with Panle Jia Barwick, Shengmao Cao & Shanjun Li on whether FDI facilitated knowledge spillovers & quality upgrades in #China: ow.ly/xU2h50MGpxC

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