4th Special ERG Call for PhD Students, Deadline: June 30, 2019 - CLOSED

The Fourth Special Round of the Exploratory Research Grants for PhD students under the PEDL initiative is now closed. Proposals submitted by 11:59pm GMT on June 30, 2019 will be considered for funding.

Indoctrinated Developmentalism and Local Sustainability: A Social–Ecological Model for Community-Based Enterprises

Developmental approaches over time have been largely economistic and overlooked local sustainability preconditions. They were greatly influenced by a host of doctrines, theories, and strategies argued through macro-level, macro-scale policies.

Journal Article

15 May 2025

Firm Culture: How Social Norms Affect Gender Bias in Hiring in Online Labour Markets

Social norms that shape expectations of women’s roles within groups can cause gender inequality in employment to persist, even in high information environments. We test this hypothesis using new data from the largest online job platform in Nigeria.

Working Paper

28 Apr 2025

Formalised Employee Search and Labour Demand

Firms in low- and middle-income countries rarely advertise their vacancies formally and instead use social networks to find employees.

Working Paper

28 Apr 2025

Firm relocation as environmental policy: impacts on firms and air quality

We study an environmental place-based policy that randomly moved over 20,000 small firms in New Delhi to industrial areas outside the city over several years.

Research Note

28 Apr 2025

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4th Special ERG Call for PhD Students, Deadline: June 30, 2019 - CLOSED

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