VoxDev
LightNews LightNews
banner
voxdev.bsky.social
VoxDev
@voxdev.bsky.social
3.5K followers 340 following 970 posts
Where research meets practice; a platform for development enthusiasts to discuss key policy issues. Powered by CEPR, IGC & PEDL.

Board: Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Michael Callen, Cesi Cruz, David Lagakos, Joana Naritomi, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
voxdev.bsky.social
VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 22d
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now!

Senior Editor @singhabhi.bsky.social & Co-Editors @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @iies.su.se & Philip Oreopoulos, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech.

Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...
Education Technology
Policy Priorities for EdTech in LMICsAvoid hardware-first approaches. These have consistently failed and are expensive.Prioritise interventions with strong evidence of cost-effective impact:Personalis...
voxdev.org
Reposted by VoxDev
olihanney.bsky.social
Earlier this year, Ben Moll & I wrote about the missing intercept problem in economics.

It ended up being @voxdev.bsky.social's most read article released in 2025!

Learn about the problem with scaling cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/method...
The ‘missing intercept’ problem with going from micro to macro
Many applied microeconomics papers conclude with a back-of-the-envelope calculation that scales their cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level. These types of aggregate estimates are only vali...
voxdev.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
olihanney.bsky.social
Through 250+ articles, 50+ podcasts & 13 VoxDevLits we featured ~900 researchers in 2025.

A huge thank you to all of those who have contributed to building this public good.

Here are some stats from the past year + a preview of what we have planned ⤵️
voxdev.bsky.social VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 4d
2025 at VoxDev

We have reflected on 2025 at VoxDev, and previewed some of our exciting plans for 2026: voxdev.org/topic/2025-v...
2025 at VoxDev
The VoxDev team reflects on 2025 at VoxDev, and previews our plans for 2026.
voxdev.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
2025 at VoxDev

We have reflected on 2025 at VoxDev, and previewed some of our exciting plans for 2026: voxdev.org/topic/2025-v...
2025 at VoxDev
The VoxDev team reflects on 2025 at VoxDev, and previews our plans for 2026.
voxdev.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
Evidence from Ecuador reveals that central transfers to subnational governments can meaningfully stimulate local economic activity – operating primarily through higher municipal spending on wages, procurement, and small-scale investment.

Read today's article to learn more:
Impact of the MET reform on local economies – Total sales and SME sales (2018)
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Reallocating resources, revitalising economies: How central transfers affect local economies

Today on VoxDev, Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón (ESPOL), Gonzalo Sánchez & Wladimir Zanoni (IDB) discuss how central transfers stimulated local economic activity: https://ow.ly/zN1j50XM7X6
Reallocating resources, revitalising economies: How central transfers affect local economies
Evidence from Ecuador reveals that central transfers to subnational governments can meaningfully stimulate local economic activity – operating primarily through higher municipal spending on wages, procurement, and small-scale investment.
ow.ly
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Inside the global web of education evidence

In today's VoxDev blog, Samuel Kembou (Jacobs Foundation), Aashti Zaidi Hai (Global Schools Forum) & Juan Hernández Agramonte (Innovations for Poverty Action) discuss bridging the gap between education research and policy: https://ow.ly/gk4450XMbcP
Inside the global web of education evidence
Around the world, governments are under pressure to improve learning outcomes. There is now an unprecedented wealth of research, yet this rarely reaches the people making decisions. The sector needs to shift from producing evidence for governments to generating it with them. True progress lies not only in discovering what works, but in building systems that learn, adapt, and implement at scale.
ow.ly
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
This week we featured research on Indian farms, Chinese universities, Brazilian inequality and more!

Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-19122025
This week in development economics at VoxDev: 19/12/2025
This week we featured research on Indian farms, Chinese universities, Brazilian inequality and more!
voxdev.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Inside the global web of education evidence

In today's VoxDev blog, Samuel Kembou (Jacobs Foundation), Aashti Zaidi Hai (Global Schools Forum) & Juan Hernández Agramonte (Innovations for Poverty Action) discuss bridging the gap between education research and policy: https://ow.ly/gk4450XMbcP
Inside the global web of education evidence
Around the world, governments are under pressure to improve learning outcomes. There is now an unprecedented wealth of research, yet this rarely reaches the people making decisions. The sector needs to shift from producing evidence for governments to generating it with them. True progress lies not only in discovering what works, but in building systems that learn, adapt, and implement at scale.
ow.ly
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Reallocating resources, revitalising economies: How central transfers affect local economies

Today on VoxDev, Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón (ESPOL), Gonzalo Sánchez & Wladimir Zanoni (IDB) discuss how central transfers stimulated local economic activity: https://ow.ly/zN1j50XM7X6
Reallocating resources, revitalising economies: How central transfers affect local economies
Evidence from Ecuador reveals that central transfers to subnational governments can meaningfully stimulate local economic activity – operating primarily through higher municipal spending on wages, procurement, and small-scale investment.
ow.ly
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 How Chinese universities drive industrial growth

Today on VoxDev, Jianyong Fan (Fudan), Wei Tang (SUFE) & Feng Zhang (NUFE) discuss how the nationwide reshuffling of universities in China impacted industrial development: https://ow.ly/L54Q50XLpvZ
How Chinese universities drive industrial growth
The nationwide reshuffling of universities in China during the 1950s sheds light on the long-run effects of higher education on industrial development.
ow.ly
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Promoting innovation: Lessons from R&D tax credits in India

Today on VoxDev, Pavel Chakraborty (@uniofbath.bsky.social), Sankalp Mathur (RBI), Sujaya Sircar (IIT Kanpur) & Rubina Verma (Georgetown) show that targeted R&D tax credit policies generated meaningful gains: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Promoting innovation: Lessons from R&D tax credits in India
Evidence from India shows that R&D tax credit policies which targeted specific sectors generated meaningful welfare gains, particularly through improvements in product quality and product variety.
voxdev.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil

Today on VoxDev, Vinicius Cicero (Denison University) & Laura Heras-Recuero (American University) discuss how commodity booms deepened inequality in Brazil: https://ow.ly/1Gln50XLkzV
How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil
Commodity booms are often seen as development opportunities, but new evidence from Brazil shows they can deepen inequality and reshape consumption in unexpected ways.
ow.ly
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 How Chinese universities drive industrial growth

Today on VoxDev, Jianyong Fan (Fudan), Wei Tang (SUFE) & Feng Zhang (NUFE) discuss how the nationwide reshuffling of universities in China impacted industrial development: https://ow.ly/L54Q50XLpvZ
How Chinese universities drive industrial growth
The nationwide reshuffling of universities in China during the 1950s sheds light on the long-run effects of higher education on industrial development.
ow.ly
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Promoting innovation: Lessons from R&D tax credits in India

Today on VoxDev, Pavel Chakraborty (@uniofbath.bsky.social), Sankalp Mathur (RBI), Sujaya Sircar (IIT Kanpur) & Rubina Verma (Georgetown) show that targeted R&D tax credit policies generated meaningful gains: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Promoting innovation: Lessons from R&D tax credits in India
Evidence from India shows that R&D tax credit policies which targeted specific sectors generated meaningful welfare gains, particularly through improvements in product quality and product variety.
voxdev.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil

Today on VoxDev, Vinicius Cicero (Denison University) & Laura Heras-Recuero (American University) discuss how commodity booms deepened inequality in Brazil: https://ow.ly/1Gln50XLkzV
How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil
Commodity booms are often seen as development opportunities, but new evidence from Brazil shows they can deepen inequality and reshape consumption in unexpected ways.
ow.ly
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
“The purpose of a carbon market, and we are going to be talking specifically about compliance carbon markets, is to have a mechanism to ensure that the total emissions of the set of players who are in the market is kept below a certain cap”. Rohini Pande today on VoxDevTalks
voxdev.bsky.social VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 9d
🆕 A proposal for a unified global carbon market 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess (@theigc.bsky.social) & Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) discuss the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
The new Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) quantifies the impact of gender gaps in the labour market, shedding light on how much higher economic activity would be if women had the same opportunities as men.

Read today's article to learn more:
The GGDI in different countries
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
One major barrier to gender equality is men's perceptions of what other men think

Men in 60 countries said they themselves were in favour of gender equality, but that other men were not. Men consistently overestimate their peers' opposition to women's rights

voxdev.org/topic/common...
Common misperceptions: What people get wrong about the world and why it matters
What do people get wrong, i.e. misperceive, about the world? Why do misperceptions matter for economic development? How can fixing misperceptions benefit society?
voxdev.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
voxdev.bsky.social
“The purpose of a carbon market, and we are going to be talking specifically about compliance carbon markets, is to have a mechanism to ensure that the total emissions of the set of players who are in the market is kept below a certain cap”. Rohini Pande today on VoxDevTalks
voxdev.bsky.social VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 9d
🆕 A proposal for a unified global carbon market 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess (@theigc.bsky.social) & Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) discuss the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
theigc.bsky.social
🎙 New VoxDevTalks:

Following the publication of their Carbon Market proposal, Robin Burgess (IGC) & Rohini Pande ( @yaleegc.bsky.social ) outline in this podcast episode how a single, opt-in global compliance market could cut emissions cost-effectively.
voxdev.bsky.social VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 9d
🆕 A proposal for a unified global carbon market 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess (@theigc.bsky.social) & Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) discuss the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities

Today on VoxDev w/ Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University), Charles Gottlieb (Aix Marseille Université), Somik Lall, Meet Mehta, Michael Peters & Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center): https://ow.ly/mwvG50XKM1g
The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities
The new Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) quantifies the impact of gender gaps in the labour market, shedding light on how much higher economic activity would be if women had the same opportunities as men.
ow.ly
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 A proposal for a unified global carbon market 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess (@theigc.bsky.social) & Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) discuss the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities

Today on VoxDev w/ Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University), Charles Gottlieb (Aix Marseille Université), Somik Lall, Meet Mehta, Michael Peters & Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center): https://ow.ly/mwvG50XKM1g
The global cost of gender inequality in labour market opportunities
The new Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) quantifies the impact of gender gaps in the labour market, shedding light on how much higher economic activity would be if women had the same opportunities as men.
ow.ly
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 A proposal for a unified global carbon market 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Robin Burgess (@theigc.bsky.social) & Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) discuss the credibility and scale needed to drive global decarbonisation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by VoxDev
voxdev.bsky.social
In India, easing the barriers to renting land could boost agricultural productivity by encouraging the most productive farmers to expand.

Read today's article to learn more:
Efficiency gains from easing land rental barriers
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM