A randomized controlled trial of a capital-grant program in post-conflict Iraq, estimating direct effects on beneficiaries and indirect effects on their social ties and professional peers across seven dimensions of social cohesion.

A hybrid sampling-frame method that combines machine-learning building footprints with satellite imagery, tested in displacement-affected Iraqi communities, that reduces the systematic undercounting of displaced and mobile populations.

Aid institutions delivering social assistance balance donors’ conceptions of appropriate program design with the need to maintain legitimacy among local beneficiaries.

A conjoint survey experiment with Venezuelan displaced persons in Colombia testing whether return-migration decisions follow a threshold (lexicographic) rule rather than compensatory tradeoffs across conditions.

Using a pre-existing employer-employee register in post-conflict Iraq to trace how large capital grants to firms affect business performance, worker turnover, and social attitudes across owners, their employees, and their networks.

This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation.

We study how prioritization rules for a large-scale cash transfer program affect who is targeted, program effectiveness, and beneficiary satisfaction.

Social assistance programs often provide a per-person benefit to targeted beneficiaries.

This paper quantifies the gender gap in the returns to electoral success on the career progression of novice U.S.

Policies that increase women’s representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions of the organization.