Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) defines what counts as Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) —what we usually think of as “aid.” It has been around since the 1960s, and has weathered...

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

This paper examines politicians’ attitudes and beliefs about the press, their potential role in shaping aid policy and how these views differ from the…

Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...

What do people get wrong, i.e. misperceive, about the world? Why do misperceptions matter for economic development? How can fixing misperceptions benefit society?

The Weiss Fund Fellowship provides supplementary financial support for exceptional job market PhD candidates accepting positions in Weiss Fund-eligible countries and doing work aligned with the Weiss ...

The widely-adopted die rolling experiment measures average lying behaviour. Its original design uses so-called control rolls; subjects should roll twi…