Fragile and conflict-affected states

This project will assess whether mobile money adoption can induce informal firms to formalise in Burkina Faso.

Through experiments with a freelancing platform in South Asia, this project will investigate whether introducing small application costs that vary in size and content attracts workers with better “job fit” and improves productivity.

This project asks whether political affiliations enable local firms to outperform multinationals in corrupt natural resource sectors.

Through an RCT, this project will test mechanisms to alleviate frictions relating to the economic integration of forced migrants.

This project studies the operations and employment impacts of the coronavirus crisis on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Burkina Faso and tests an experiment to improve access to government relief.

In this project, Grant, Grossman and Startz will collect, analyse, and make available to other researchers data that traces the distribution of manufactured consumer goods in Nigeria.

This project seeks to understand the direct and indirect impacts of flooding on firms in Pakistan and how they respond to limit their future exposure.

This project examines the local social, economic and environmental costs and benefits of the mining industry in India.

This projects studies how firms are affected when transportation infrastructure provides them with access to new markets and when outside firms gain access to their local markets.

This project examines the formal and informal institutions for dispute resolution used by microenterprises in Somalia, how access to them affects business outcomes and whether the provision of female-only saving and loan groups can redress gender imbalances in access to dispute resolution.