Uganda

This paper studies the role of consumer information frictions in driving firms’ location choices within cities.

In developing countries, most manufacturing firms are small and located in high-density urban areas, often near congested streets.

One third of the 420 million young people in Africa are unemployed. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what a¤ects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance.

Many firms in developing countries could be too small to adopt modern technology embodied in expensive production machines. This paper shows that rental market interactions allow these small firms to increase their e↵ective scale and mechanize production.

In a field experiment in Uganda, mothers of young children are randomly offered a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, both or nothing.

Promoting growth by differentiating products is a core tenet of marketing. However, establishing and quantifying marketing’s causal impact on firm growth, while critical, can be difficult.