"We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on characteristics that matter for labor market success. We reweight the NLSY79 to look like the NLSY97 along a number of dimensions that are related to labor market success,...

Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts of one of the most popular digital loan products in the world, M-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible...

Using two decades of data from twelve low-income countries in West Africa, we show that dust carried by harmattan trade winds increases infant and child mortality. Health investments respond to dust exposure, consistent with compensating behaviors. Despite these efforts, surviving children still...

Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a randomized control trial design in Nepal, evaluates a program that provided...

We examine the impact of air pollution (PM10 measure) on birth weight, probability of being Low Birth Weight (less than 2500 grams), and Very Low Birth Weight (less than 1500 grams). We exploit the unique interaction between rainfall and pollution accumulation in Santiago, Chile to pin down the...

The partition of India separated the jute mills of West Bengal from the farms in Bangladesh that supplied raw materials. The demand for loose jute in India rose dramatically, and Indian farmers responded by expanding jute acreage. At the same time, some three million migrants arrived in Eastern...