We use plant level census data to identify spillovers from FDI in Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector.
This paper investigates the effect of terrorism financing and recruitment on attacks.
We examine how management quality is related to product market competition when firms are managed by their founders instead of hired managers.
Pakistan has gender parity in tertiary enrollment yet labor force participation rate of female graduates is one-third that of the male graduates.
How do firms ensure secure exchange when the rule of law is weak and contracting institutions privilege the politically connected?
Humanitarian programming in fragile economies often use unconditional cash transfers (UCT) to offset food-insecurity.
We study two interventions for poor and underemployed Ethiopian youth: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm.
The earnings of individuals depend on the demand for the factor services they supply.
Bargaining over real prices with microenterprise owners in Ghana, we show that sellers with less per capita household liquidity agree to lower sale prices.