Finance and Entrepreneurship

Enabling electric vehicle adoption with innovative financing and infrastructure

This project proposes a field experiment in which the researchers create variation in financial contract form and access to charging infrastructure to evaluate the barriers to electric two-wheelers adoption in Kenya.

Research Project
29 Oct 2024

Market-based Information to Predict Small Firms’ Marginal Returns to Capital and Other Business Support Services

This project leverages a randomised control trial in a large-scale business support program in Ghana to explore whether the networks of entrepreneurs who own small firm, including peers and other stakeholders such as suppliers, can help predict entrepreneurs' marginal returns to the program and future business performance.

Research Project
29 Oct 2024

Bridging the Gender Gap in Credit Access by Small Businesses in Low-Income Countries: The Transformative Impact of Digital Lending

This project investigates the impact of digital lending on reducing the gender gap in the credit markets and the performance of small businesses in Kisumu City, Kenya.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

The economic burden of tax enforcement

This project studies the cost imposed by tax enforcement measures on firms in Uganda.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Does weak contract enforcement hurt female entrepreneurship and inter-gender business linkages?

This project is a series of low-cost lab-in-the-field interventions that aim to identify the causal effects of institutions on business performance and gender gaps, and explore the channels behind this effect in Lusaka, Zambia.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Training and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Ghana

This project seeks to study the effects of accelerator training programmes in developing countries while also controlling for selection bias.

Research Project
1 Mar 2024

Female Labour Force Participation and Mixed Gender Workplaces

This study will test labour demand and labour supply-side explanations as to why firms gender-segregate, while also testing several firm-level policy interventions that could ease these frictions.

Research Project
1 Nov 2023

Friendship and Collusion Among Lusakan Fruit and Vegetable Sellers

This study examines the role that non-monetary aspects (such as friendships) can play in sustaining collusive behaviour.

Research Project
1 Aug 2023