Guns and butter? Fighting violence with the promise of development

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze…

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A Malaria Ecology Index Predicted Spatial and Temporal Variation of Malaria Burden and Efficacy of Antimalarial Interventions Based on African Serological Data

Researchers developed a Malaria Ecology Index using climatological and ecological data and found strong associations between malaria ecology and malaria testing data. Using both insecticide-treated nets or indoor residual spraying…

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Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality

Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that labor unions, on balance, reduce economic disparities. But unions are complicated, multifaceted organizations straddling markets and politics. Much of…

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