Gender

This project will study one potential explanation behind female owned enterprises showing lower returns than their male counterparts: lack of access to childcare services.

This project aims to run a pilot study in Bangladesh measuring differences in frictions that firms encounter in hiring and retaining workers of various skills.

This project aims to provide some evidence on management in Ethiopia.

This project investigates the effects of subsidised or free disposable menstrual pads on worker’s well-being, health, and productivity.

This project studies which are the effects of private actors enforcing labour standards in Bangladesh on local firms and workers.

This project studies whether aspirational and soft touch job search skills interventions can contribute towards bridging the supply and demand side in promoting female employment in Pakistan.

This project considers an innovative new microfinance product, based on the principles of equity financing, in which promising potential entrepreneurs are provided with capital, training and mentorship to help them become online freelancers.

The project seeks to further our understanding of the effects of industrialization initiatives on rural communities in developing countries.

This project uses a field experiment in Kenya to understand the effect of consumer-side discrimination on individual and aggregate-worker productivities.

The project explores whether business can be encouraged to form horizontal linkages and collaborate on higher quality production through the offer of an opportunity to be part of a vertical linkage in Zambia.