model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, anticipating the …

We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the …

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …

methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that …

college education, suggesting that aggressive enforcement policies may be missing their intended targets. No similar effect is …