Innovation, Organisations and Markets

This project assesses medium-term economic impacts of improved electricity reliability by leveraging persistent discontinuities in electricity reliability across nearby areas in Kenya that are serviced by different feeder lines.

This project employs a randomised controlled trial and the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism to examine the impact of a solar light subsidy on small firm owners' firm and household outcomes with different exposure to blackout risks in Nakuru, Kenya.

This project is a randomised controlled trial designed to test whether there are market failures in the spatial distribution of private-market transit in low-income cities and if they can be corrected using temporary route creation subsidies. The project also tests whether there are different groups under-served by existing urban transit alignment.

This project is a randomised controlled trial designed to quantify and decompose the frictions in international trade (information asymmetries and contracting barriers) among Senegalese importers, using the derived estimates to understand relationship formation along the international supply chain.

In this project, the research team conducts surveys of approximately 2,200 HR managers at garment factories in Gazipur, Savar, and Narayanganj, the three major garments-producing clusters around peri-urban Dhaka, to create a novel set of stylized facts about vacancies and hiring practices across firms and within firms over time.

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

This project seeks to understand how technology adoption impacts employment in the least developed countries. 

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.

This study seeks to examine the role played by information asymetries and contracting barriers in shaping international trade. 

This project aims to estimate the local economic costs resulting from transportation infrastructure and road traffic in Pakistan, specifically through increased air pollution, and compare them to the estimated benefits.