Working papers

Research

Working papers, policy reports and research notes in macroeconomics, public finance and development economics. Several are work in progress. Get in touch if you would like to discuss one. Applied projects, dashboards and code live in the portfolio.

6 papers
Working paper Private Schools and Student Performance : Insights from PASEC Assessments This working paper examines the relationship between private school prevalence and student performance across 14 Francophone African countries using PASEC data. Working paper Chinese Financial Flows: A Lever for Growth in Recipient Economies? This working paper investigates the effect of Chinese financial flows on economic growth in 147 countries between 2000 and 2021, using panel data methods including IV and dynamic panel mo... Working paper Does Double Taxation Agreement Promote More FDI? Evidence from a New Database This working paper uses a new dataset on international tax treaties to assess their effect on FDI and domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries using modern causal inference m... Working paper Calibrating Fiscal Risk Provisions: A Value-at-Risk Approach to Budget Forecast Errors This policy report proposes a method for setting a government's budgetary risk provisions. Public budget plans were scraped to build a structured database of revenue and expenditure line ... Working paper Labour market diagnostics: Liberia and The Gambia Deep-dive diagnostics of the labour markets of Liberia and The Gambia, drawing on multiple primary and secondary data sources. Internal report for Development Impact (DIME), World Bank Gr... Live app Working paper Monetary Policy in the Media Spotlight: Sentiments, Signals, and Economic Impact Research assistance on a working paper by Ayivodji, Briand, Moran and Stevanovic. Monetary-policy sentiment indicators built from more than 50,000 Canadian newspaper articles using dictio...