On 13th and 14th December 2018, LSE hosted PEDL's fourth conference on “Private Sector Development” in London. The event brought together over 50 PEDL and IGC researchers from over a dozen countries to discuss their research on firms and markets in LICs.
Below you find a list of all the presentations made by PEDL researchers. When applicable, the link will direct you to the PEDL project page, where you can find more information and any outcput produced to date. Here you can find a short brochure on the conference, with presentations' summaries.
- "Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply" by Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur and Nandita Krishnaswamy
- "The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda" by Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
- "Improving Export Quality: The Case of the Sustainable Quality Program in Colombian Coffee" by Rocco Macchiavello and Josepa Miquel-Florensa
- "Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia" by Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and David McKenzie
- "Input Tariffs, Roads and Firm Performance: Evidence from Ethiopia" by Matteo Fiorini, Marco Sanfilippo and Asha Sundaram
- "The Impact of Monitoring Technologies on Contracts and Employee Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Kenya's Matatu Industry" by Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane and David Schönholzer
- "Women, Entrepreneurship and Institutions" by Nava Ashraf, Alexia Delfino and Edward Glaeser
- "Political Connections and Misallocation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from Ecuador" by Felipe Brugués, Javier Brugués and Samuele Giambra
- "Can Decentralized Vocational Training Work? Evidence from a National Apprenticeship Program Evaluation in Ghana" by Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti and Jamie McCasland
- "Measuring Changes in the Ghanian Firm Size Distribution: 1962-2014" by Andrew Kerr and Bruce McDougall
- "Enviromental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design" by Goujun He, Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang
- "Do Marketing Channel Reforms Increase Competition? Evidence from Indian Produce Markets" by Jorge Ale-Chilet and Beàta Itin-Shwartz
- "Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives" by Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi and Aminur Rahman
On 11th and 12th December 2018, PEDL PhD students presented their work in progress at the PEDL workshop in Oxford. Below are the projects discussed.
- "Returns to Industrial Park Employment for Workers and their Communities in Ethiopia" by Christian Meyer
- "Job reallocation, Employment and Productivity in the Zimbabwe Informal Manufacturing Sector" by Godfrey Kamutando
- "The Economic and Welfare Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers" by Shaoda Wang
- "Shared-Ownership Microfinance: A Field Experiment in Pakistan" by Muhammad Meki
- "The Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in Africa" by Wycliffe Oluoch
- "Corruption (Mis)Perceptions: Overestimating Bribery & Undervaluing Investments" by Sam Leone
- "Menstrual Health and Worker Productivity in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector" by Martina Miotto
- " In Search of a Better Life: Self-Control in the Ethiopian Labour Market" by Christian Meyer.