Uganda

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

How do consumers’ information frictions affect firms’ choice of location within a city? This paper combines an original data collection and a quantitative equilibrium model of consumer search and firm location to answer this question.

Does exposure to one refugee worker increase local employers’ demand for refugees?

How to integrate disadvantaged workers such as immigrants and refugees into host-country labor markets is a pressing global question.

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

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 effective scale and mechanize production.