PEDL is a joint research initiative of CEPR and FCDO
Summary:
PEDL offers a competitive research grants scheme for projects related to the behaviour of firms in low-income countries that aim to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in these countries. Since the launch of the initiative in 2011, PEDL has awarded 259 Exploratory Grants and 51 Major Grants. PEDL-funded projects have produced 133 refereed journal publications, including 29 in the top five journals in economics. We expect the flow of publications to increase as more of the 183 working papers from existing projects make their way through the publication process.
The new Research Strategy is now available online! It includes the restructuring of the PEDL research themes as well as the introduction of Theme Leaders.
26 Apr 2023
Title:
Sign up to our PEDL Newsletter
Summary:
Keep updated on our open and upcoming funding calls as well as our most recent projects and publications.
VoxDev is a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues. Expert contributors provide insightful commentary, analysis, and evidence on a wide range of policy challenges in formats that we hope are accessible to a wide audience interested in development.
This study will test labour demand and labour supply-side explanations as to why firms gender-segregate, while also testing several firm-level policy interventions that could ease these frictions.
Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions.
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, 186 countries implemented direct cash transfers to households, and 181 introduced in-kind programs that lowered the cost of utilities such as electricity, water, transport, and mobile money.
The beef cattle sector is the leading driver of deforestation worldwide. This creates high sectoral emissions, which are geographically concentrated in expanding agricultural frontiers.