Social compliance and the environment

This project will examine how managers respond to information about new technologies and how successful they are in updating their beliefs.

This project will examine the matching behaviour of job applicants and firms, and the role of ICT in easing frictions and gender gaps, using evidence from the largest online hiring platform in Nigeria.

This project exploits an arguably exogenous shock to the allocation of coal mines in India to study the spillovers of misallocation in an upstream sector through the rest of the economy.

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

This project seeks to understand how the provision of factory housing and the development of social networks in the workplace can improve worker productivity, retention rates and welfare in Ethiopia.

This project will randomly allocate air purifiers among small-scale textile firms in Bangladesh to estimate the effect of air pollution on worker productivity as well as willingness to pay for defensive investments that help reduce exposure to air pollution.

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

This project estimates the effects of COVID-19 illness amongst workers on productivity in garment factories in Bangladesh.

This project will examine the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bangladeshi garment manufacturers and exporters.

This project examines how the design and introduction of a whistleblower system affect information transmission by employees and misconduct by employers.