Exploiting an on-going experiment, this project attempts to assess the role of cultural barriers within the household in hindering female’s career advancement and whether women taking up low-level managerial positions can reduce them.
Exploratory Research Grant Projects
Exploratory Research Grants are awarded to successful applicants every two months. Projects are chosen based on scientific merit, methodological rigour and policy relevance.
Grants Round: 22nd Round
Country: Bangladesh
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
The goal of this project is to study and understand the inefficiencies of the transport sector in Liberia, and give policymakers the tools to tackle them.
Grants Round: 22nd Round
Country: Liberia
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states
This project investigates the existence of a ‘market for lemons’, i.e. markets sell only low quality products since sellers are not able to signal high quality products to consumers, for agro-inputs in rural Kenya.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Kenya
This project uses a randomized controlled experiment to test the role of behavioural factors in the high take-up rates and subsequent high repayments for asset-collateralized loans.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Kenya
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
How important is to have a good supplier for the success of a firm? This project based in China will shed some light on the role that the supply side of the economy plays on firm performance.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: China
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
The key purpose of this project is to measure management practices, undertake a rigorous empirical analysis of management-performance relationship, and investigate the determinants of management practices in manufacturing establishments in previously inaccessible provinces of Pakistan.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Pakistan
This project studies the impact of globalization on employment and wages focusing on the relationship between both importing and exporting and employment volatility in Rwanda.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Rwanda
How do citizens react to political connections when the rule of law is weak? This project estimates the impact of political connections on trust in economic exchange in Senegal and, when exchange occurs, it explores whether buyers prefer formal or informal contracts.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Senegal
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project studies the impact of FDI and multinational firms’ entry on domestic firms’ productivity in Costa Rica.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: Costa Rica
This work will shed light on how much employers value cognitive (e.g. IQ) and non-cognitive (e.g. motivation, perseverance etc.) skills and the extent to which these skills are predictive of future productivity.
Grants Round: 21st Round
Country: South Africa
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
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