How to Protect Sex Workers without Protective Legislation: Improving Outside Options to the Market for Sex

This is our 13th blog post for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025. Ruchi Mahadeshwar is a Ph.D. … More

Underground risk: how is living surrounded by landmines?

This is our sixth blog post for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025. Felipe Parra-Escobar is a Ph.D. candidate … More

Do Child Rights Matter in Developing Countries? Evidence from the Child Rights Act in Nigeria

Hamad Mahar completed his PhD in economics from Trinity College Dublin and is currently on the job market. More details … More

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Private Ways to Tackle Gender Discriminatory Inheritance Law: Lessons From a Survey Experiment in Tunisia

Christina Sarah Hauser, is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.  Her … More

ETRM Interview Series – Lauren Falcao Bergquist

As part of our interview series, we ask renowned experts in the field about the future of research in development … More

ETRM Interview Series- Mushfiq Mobarak

As part of our interview series, we ask renowned experts in the field for their advice for young researchers. For … More

Home-made Kenyan Beer

Alcohol and Agriculture: Results from a Field Experiment in Kenya

David Murphy is an assistant professor of economics at Colgate University. Why look at alcohol in Africa? While alcohol abuse … More

Livestock in Yabello Borena Ethiopia

Can drought insurance reduce Ethiopian pastoralists’ exposure to conflict?

Tekalign Gutu Sakketa is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Germany. He was a visiting fellow at Cornell University as … More