Decentralization has been put forward as a powerful tool to reduce poverty and improve governance in Africa. The aim of …

Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption …

aid disbursement? Through a parallel set of surveys in two urban regions in Africa--with comparable education, cell phone … line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …

a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …

as collateral. Using a field experiment in Kenya, we show that borrowers instead strongly prefer loans collateralized …

Kenya reduces all-cause under-5 mortality by 1.4 percentage points (95% CI: 0.3 pp, 2.5 pp), a 63% reduction relative to …