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Connecting buyers and sellers in the countryside

[Research Highlight]

April 02, 2021

E-commerce development in rural China may not be as promising as many expected.

Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China

By Victor Couture, Benjamin Faber, Yizhen Gu, and Lizhi Liu

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2021

This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little ev...

Free movement and labor markets

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A policy reform in Switzerland helped estimate the effect of foreign workers on native employment and wages.

The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa

By Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero

American Economic Review, April 2021

Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to treat and prevent sleeping sickness. Villagers were forcibly examined and injected with medications with severe, sometimes fatal, side effects. We digitized 30 years of arch...

The risk of research

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How do companies weigh the tradeoffs with R&D investment?

Why the United States has the best research universities

[Research Highlight]

April 12, 2021

Miguel Urquiola discusses the history of higher education in America and why it surpassed Europe.

CTREE 2021 Exhibitors Demonstration

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AEASP: Course Descriptions

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Calling in election fraud

[Research Highlight]

April 09, 2021

Did cell phone technology in Afghanistan help reduce ballot stuffing at the polls?

Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan

By Robert M. Gonzalez

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2021

This paper examines the impact of cell phone access on election fraud. I combine cell phone coverage maps with the location of polling centers during the 2009 Afghan presidential election to pinpoint which centers were exposed to coverage. Results from a ...

Progressive Taxation and Long-Run Growth

By Li Wenli and Pierre-Daniel Sarte

American Economic Review, December 2004

The long shadow of colonial medicine

[Research Highlight]

April 02, 2021

To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?

Information for Attending the Remo Events

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How to use the Remo website to attend the CTREE Events taking place at June 3, 2021 at 2:45 pm ET, and again on June 4, 2021 at 10:30am ET