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Virtual Social Networks and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries: A Randomized Controlled Experiment in Ghana

This experiment investigates the potential of virtual social networks and access to technology in promoting innovative entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries.

Research Project

25 Jul 2014

Registry Data in Burma: Mapping the Country’s Manufacturing Industry and Related Infrastructure

This project seeks to create a database of micro level firm data from Myanmar’s manufacturing sector to promote further research and policy insights.

Research Project

24 Jul 2014

Management Practices in the Manufacturing Sector in Pakistan

This project analyses management practices in Pakistan to explore whether weak management hinders productivity and innovation, and thus explain the differences in firm-level performance between and within developing and developed countries.

Research Project

23 Jul 2014

Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology and Survey Design to Filter Noise in Self-Reported Business Outcomes

The research team has designed a new electronic survey tool to reduce the high levels of measurement error in data on micro-enterprise sales and profits and tests this new approach in a randomized controlled trial among micro-entrepreneurs in Ghana.

Research Project

22 Jul 2014

Firm Entry Barriers, Growth Constraints, and Job Creation (Stage One)

This project considers financial constraints as barriers to entry and growth and examines whether easing these constraints can induce entry of more dynamic start-ups with greater long-run growth potential than by removing explicit entry barriers.

Research Project

21 Jul 2014

Learning and Productivity within Organizations: Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Focusing on Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment factories, this project provides micro-evidence of on-the-job learning between co-workers and aims to identify the conditions under which the productivity effects of this on-the-job learning are particularly strong.

Research Project

20 Jul 2014

Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

This project aims to quantify the cost of the business friction involved when matching with trusted partners.

Research Project

20 Jul 2014

Measuring the Competitiveness of Markets and predicting the impact of policy: A study of the West African Retail Tyre Market

This project aims to better understand productivity dispersion by developing a market-specific measure of the competitive pressure to innovate and exit, and also a comprehensive measure of productivity dispersion, in the retail tyre market in West Africa.

Research Project

20 Jul 2014

Wage Compression in Labor Markets: The Effect of Fairness Norms

By using a field exeperiment on full-time workers, this study aims to understand the labour market distortions generated by wage compression.

Research Project

19 Jul 2014

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Virtual Social Networks and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries: A Randomized Controlled Experiment in Ghana

Registry Data in Burma: Mapping the Country’s Manufacturing Industry and Related Infrastructure

Management Practices in the Manufacturing Sector in Pakistan

Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology and Survey Design to Filter Noise in Self-Reported Business Outcomes

Firm Entry Barriers, Growth Constraints, and Job Creation (Stage One)

Learning and Productivity within Organizations: Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Measuring the Competitiveness of Markets and predicting the impact of policy: A study of the West African Retail Tyre Market

Wage Compression in Labor Markets: The Effect of Fairness Norms

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