On 14th and 15th December 2017, 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.
- “If she Builds it, They Won't Come: Experimental Evidence of Demand-side Constraints in the Gender Profit Gap ” by Morgan Hardy and Gisella Kagy.
- “Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship” by Fernando Vega-Redondo, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Paolo Pin, Gaia Rubera, and Diego Ubfal.
- “Land Mines and Spatial Development” by Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou.
- “What Kinds of Chinese “Geese” Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms” by Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang and Xia Ying.
- “Exporting to Fragile States in Africa: Firm Level Evidence” by Peter Chacha and Lawrence Edwards.
- “Contractual Flexibility and Selection into Borrowing: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh” by Marianna Battaglia, Selim Gulesci and Andreas Madestam.
- “Binding Up the Nation's Wounds: An Economic Analysis of the Korean Reunification” by Sang Yoon Lee and Yongseok Shin.
- “Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh” Andreas Menzel and Christopher Woodruff.
- “The long-run effects of industrial work on health: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia” by Chris Blattman, Stefan Dercon and Simon Franklin.
- “The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training” by Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham.
- “Explaining Worker Productivity: The Roles of Hidden Traits and Weather” by Atonu Rabbani, Mushfiquar Rahman, Riya Siddiqua and Mohammad Salim Hossain.
- “Corruption and Firms: Evidence from Randomized Audit in Brazil” by Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem.
On 12th and 13th December 2017, PEDL PhD students presented their work in progress at the PEDL workshop in Oxford. Below there are some vide interviews.
- "Jackboots and Bootstraps: The Effects of Bribery on Entrepreneurship" by Sam Leone - click here for the video interview.