About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000- employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...

Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted...

The paper examines some of the economic and institutional explanations for sub-Saharan Africa's poor agricultural performance in the last 15 years, and suggests the role that governments and their aid donors should now be playing in promoting a change of fortune. (DSE)