Recent decades have seen growing interest in research into how employees can, on their own initiative, develop their jobs to make them better suited to themselves. Such employee-initiated job design activities are referred to in the literature as job crafting. Research on job-crafting research...

As life expectancy rises but also for financial reasons, older workers are increasingly being encouraged to continue working longer, even beyond the statutory retirement age. In this chapter we will delve into the benefits and challenges of ‘bridge employment’ for older workers. To...

Two consistent findings from the experimentally literature on public good games are that cooperation declines over time and cooperation is lower in countries with weak institutions. These findings, however, are primarily based on experiments in Europe, North America and Asia. There is little...

Reducing high public debts is key for countries seeking to restore fiscal capacity and resilience in the wake of recent crises. But large debt reductions are rare. Jamaica stands out for reducing its debt from 144 percent of GDP to 72 percent over the last decade, a record achieved by running...

Recent research suggests that using additional teachers to provide small-group instruction or tutoring substantially improves student learning. However, treatment effects on test scores can fade over time, and less is known about the lasting effects of such interventions. We leverage data from a...

Recent research suggests that using additional teachers to provide small-group instruction or tutoring substantially improves student learning. However, treatment effects on test scores can fade over time, and less is known about the lasting effects of such interventions. We leverage data from a...