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Blog Post
January 09, 2024
Child vaccination is one of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to save lives. But just how good is the data that we’re using to track progress on this life-saving intervention? In this piece, we examine trends in the quality of government-produced vaccination data. Our main message is that r...
Oct
8
2015
12:30—2:00 PM
October 05, 2015
Why are the wide gaps in living standards between rural and urban areas in developing countries so persistent? The presence of amenities in rural areas is one explanation for why (even more) people don't move from impoverished rural areas to urban centers. In her new paper, Martina Kirchberger l...
Blog Post
October 02, 2015
Recent research overturns the standard narrative about refugee crises: that addressing them mainly means curtailing the conflict and poverty that “push” migrants away from home and slashing the excessive generosity that “pull” them into other countries. Instead, pragmatic and...
Apr
2
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
February 23, 2015
How can we encourage the return migration of high-skilled individuals to countries experiencing “brain drain?” In a new paper, Mathis Wagner and his coauthors present the first evidence on the efficacy of a major program designed to do so by using the case of Malaysian Returning Expert P...