A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention …

promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …

who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh …

,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we randomized (1) either group financial incentives or a non-financial "social recognition …

wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …