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Embedding Agroforestry into Supply-Chains: Experimental Evidence with a Large Coffee Buyer in East Africa

Agroforestry, a farming system where trees are grown alongside crops, has the potential to help achieve multiple development objectives. It can help coffee farms combat climate change by acting as carbon sinks. Beyond reducing carbon emissions, agroforestry helps shield coffee plants from heat and heavy rains, increasing resilience to climate change. Further, products of agroforestry can provide important independent income stream to farmers facing extreme poverty.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Finacial Constraints to Exporting: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda's Export Frowth Fund

Strong export performance is often seen as key to unleashing firm productivity and spurring economic growth, both for the exporting firms themselves and for the broader economy. Given these perceived benefits, middle and low-income country (LMIC) governments commonly implement export promotion policies that aim to alleviate market failures hindering export growth.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Embedding Agroforestry into Supply-Chains: Experimental Evidence with a Large Coffee Buyer in East Africa

Agroforestry, a farming system where trees are grown alongside crops, has the potential to help achieve multiple development objectives. It can help coffee farms combat climate change by acting as carbon sinks. Beyond reducing carbon emissions, agroforestry helps shield coffee plants from heat and heavy rains, increasing resilience to climate change. Further, products of agroforestry can provide important independent income stream to farmers facing extreme poverty.

Research Project
13 Jan 2025

A Scalable Entrepreneurship Model to Address Drinking Water Scarcity in Coastal Bangladesh

In southern coastal Bangladesh, rising freshwater salinity due to climate change threatens over 20 million people with drinking water scarcity, causing health issues like hypertension and preeclampsia, especially among vulnerable populations. Traditional solutions, including centralised water systems and household-level treatments, have proven ineffective, leading to the proposal of a new entrepreneurial approach involving small-scale reverse osmosis (RO) plants.

Research Project
17 Dec 2024

Raising Retail Productivity through Data Pooling: A Mobile Phone App Intervention

The rise of the information economy has highlighted how data may be an input into production (Veldkamp and Chung, forthcoming). Since firms conversely accumulate data through production, large firms may be able to accumulate data more quickly, giving them an advantage. The advantage is especially stark in retail, where a key dimension of productivity is the ability to forecast demand for individual products (Samaniego de la Parra and Shenoy, 2023). Walmart came to dominate U.S.

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Managers’ and Households’ Attitude Toward Women Working in Factories: Role Model Firms and Information Interventions in Pakistan

Women’s work outside the home (WWOH) rate in Pakistan is among the lowest in the world. This is partly due to employer’s having incorrect information and beliefs about women’s ability to carry out work (a demand-side information constraint) and social stigma preventing women and their families from seeking jobs related information (a supply-side information constraint).

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Bricks to Blocks: Information and Coordination Challenges for Transitioning to a Cleaner Building Technology

While lack of policies are often considered as constraints to green growth, this project will investigate the challenges surrounding the adoption of eco-friendly construction materials in Bangladesh. Specifically, the project will focus on promoting the substitution of fired clay bricks (FCBs) with soil-stabilized blocks (SSBs) in public contracts and the construction industry as a whole.

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Pollution, Productivity and Willingness to Pay for Defensive Investments

This project consists in a field experiment with randomized allocation of air purifiers in small-scale textile firms in Bangladesh to estimate firms’ and households’ willingness to pay for air purifiers.

Research Project
7 Nov 2024

Extinguishing the Blaze: Impact of Crop Residue Management on Stubble Burning in India

Air pollution is a major health concern in many Indian cities exposing millions of people to extremely toxic air. Stubble burning is a major contributor to air pollution in northern parts of India, where it accounts for up to 40% of air pollution [SAFAR, 2019]. After conducting a pilot randomised controlled trial in August 2022 with 205 farmers, researchers finds that providing information and bio-decomposers to farmers reduced burning by 29% in comparison to control group farmers.

Research Project
31 Jul 2024

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