Clare Balboni et al.'s paper "Why do people stay poor?" is truly remarkable. Even in a field so enamored with theoretical models like Economics, I've rarely seen real-life data fit so remarkably with what the model predicts...

... Doubly remarkable that it is for such a fundamental insight as the existence of poverty traps. She is currently presenting here (and you can rewind to the start) Ungated: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/eopp/eopp67.pdf

Well overdue to give a shoutout to @orianabandiera @maitreesh @anton_heil (did I get that tag right?) who are on Twitter!

And while you are all here, these are two other papers that rocked my world recently on how clever experiments can answer the really big questions:
Communities against Ebola: http://odube.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ebola_Sierra_Leone.pdf and what happens to an entire economy when you give cash: http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/general-equilibrium-effects-of-cash-transfers-experimental-evidence-from-kenya