iiG Research Phase 1: Improving Institutions for Growth

This research phases includes projects under the themes: Accountability and Governance, Firm Developments and Exports, and Institutions for Inclusive Growth in Poor Settings.

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Accountability and Governance

Research within this theme considers how governance affects public goods provision. Understanding how political institutions affect public goods provision and service delivery also leads to more fundamental issues about the working of these political institutions themselves. Research projects are:

A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Paralegal Program in Sierra Leone

Accountability and Economic Performance

Community-Based Justice and the Rule of Law in Liberia: A Field Experiment Using Mobile Paralegals

Determinants of Leadership Turnover

Does crime pay for politicians in India?

Elections, Ethnic Polarisation and Managing Post-Electoral Conflict in Kenya

Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Evidence from Kenya

Evaluating the Impact of Relief Teachers on Academic Achievement in Kenyan Primary Schools

India’s Employment Guarantee: Wages, Entitlements and Service Delivery

Is Information Power? Using Cell Phones During an Election in Mozambique

Is Vote-Buying Effective? A Field Experiment in Sao Tome and Principe

Linking Institutions, Security and Pro-Poor Growth in Nigeria

Management and Motivation in Ugandan Primary Schools

Mutual Fears and Civil War

Political Violence in Nigeria: A Field Experiment around the 2007 Elections

Randomised Evaluation of Policies to Create Local Accountability Under Free Primary Education in Kenya and Uganda

Social Funds and Political Patronage in Kenya

The Economics of the Military

The Election Process in Nigeria: Candidate Selection, Finance and Outcomes

The Origins of State Capacity

Trade and The Cost of Borders and Conflict: Evidence from the India Pakistan Border

What Makes an Effective Bureaucrat? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

iiG Research Phase 1: Improving Institutions for Growth

Accountability and Governance

A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Paralegal Program in Sierra Leone

Accountability and Economic Performance

Community-Based Justice and the Rule of Law in Liberia: A Field Experiment Using Mobile Paralegals

Determinants of Leadership Turnover

Does crime pay for politicians in India?

Elections, Ethnic Polarisation and Managing Post-Electoral Conflict in Kenya

Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Evidence from Kenya

Evaluating the Impact of Relief Teachers on Academic Achievement in Kenyan Primary Schools

India’s Employment Guarantee: Wages, Entitlements and Service Delivery

Is Information Power? Using Cell Phones During an Election in Mozambique

Is Vote-Buying Effective? A Field Experiment in Sao Tome and Principe

Linking Institutions, Security and Pro-Poor Growth in Nigeria

Management and Motivation in Ugandan Primary Schools

Mutual Fears and Civil War

Political Violence in Nigeria: A Field Experiment around the 2007 Elections

Randomised Evaluation of Policies to Create Local Accountability Under Free Primary Education in Kenya and Uganda

Social Funds and Political Patronage in Kenya

The Economics of the Military

The Election Process in Nigeria: Candidate Selection, Finance and Outcomes

The Origins of State Capacity

Trade and The Cost of Borders and Conflict: Evidence from the India Pakistan Border

What Makes an Effective Bureaucrat? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

Contractual Relationships and Ethnic Violence: Theory and Evidence from Kenyan Flowers Exports

Growth in Manufactured Exports Across African States

Liberalisation Meets Investment Climate: The Case of India

A Sustainable Transition: Food Aid and Income Generation in South Sudan

Aspiration failure and rural development in Ethiopia

Culture and Incentives

Cyclones and development in India

Empowering the Very Poor: The Ultrapoor Programme in Bangladesh

Female Empowerment through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India

Human Capital, Financial Capital, and the Economic Empowerment of Female Adolescents: Evidence from a Randomised Intervention in Uganda and Tanzania

Information and Healthcare: A Randomised Experiment in India

Infrastructure and Development – The Political Economy of Road Placement in East Africa

Need, Merit or Self-Interest – What Determines the Allocation of Aid?

Property Rights in East Africa

Psychosocial Skills and Aspirations: Evaluating the Impact of a Long-term Intervention in India

Pure Home Water in Ghana

Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

Risk, Shocks, Growth, Aid and Poverty

Testing Two Views of Famine: Theory and Evidence from South Asia, 1861-1930

The Welfare and Behavioural Impact of Group-based Insurance Provision in Ethiopia

Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications of Climate Change

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