Social compliance and the environment

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.

This project seeks to understand the direct and indirect impacts of flooding on firms in Pakistan and how they respond to limit their future exposure.

This project examines the local social, economic and environmental costs and benefits of the mining industry in India.

In this project, Schreiber sets up suggestion boxes for 1,600 workers in a Bangladeshi garment factory and tests the efficacy of two cross-randomized voice-enhancing managerial interventions through an RCT.

This project identifies the role of information frictions in the relationships between firms and government bodies.