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Connections, Gender, and Access to State-Facilitated Private Sector Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Senegal

In developing countries, access to opportunities within the private sector are often unequally distributed. Advantages accrue to those with connections to the state or to those with privileged social status.

Research Note

22 Mar 2023

Firm Culture: Can Information Interventions Close Gender Gaps in Online Labour Markets?

We study the effects of information frictions on gender gaps in matching and hiring in online labour markets.

Research Note

20 Mar 2023

Business incubators and entrepreneurship development in Africa’s innovation systems: a bibliometric review

Business incubators are a useful policy tool for spurring and supporting entrepreneurial businesses, but we know too little about their impact in Africa.

Research Note

16 Mar 2023

Labour Market Power, Self-employment, and Development

This paper shows that self-employment shapes the market power of employers in lowincome countries, with implications for industrial development.

Working Paper

14 Mar 2023

Firm size and mobility: descriptive evidence from the Senegalese formal sector, 2008-2020

Since 2008, the 10% largest firms in Senegal have consistently accounted for 90% of the total revenue of the private formal sector.

Research Note

13 Mar 2023

Consumer search and firm location: Theory and evidence from the garment sector in Uganda

How do consumers’ information frictions affect firms’ choice of location within a city? This paper combines an original data collection and a quantitative equilibrium model of consumer search and firm location to answer this question.

Research Note

10 Mar 2023

Matching with the Right Attitude: the Effect of Matching Firms with Refugee Workers

Does exposure to one refugee worker increase local employers’ demand for refugees?

Research Note

3 Mar 2023

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it?

Working Paper

27 Feb 2023

An Investigation into Product Market Integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

This study examines the extent of market integration within the West African sub-region using the theory of “law of one price”. The dataset covers three countries: Nigeria, Benin and Togo accounting for about three quarters of the sub-region economy.

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23 Feb 2023

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Connections, Gender, and Access to State-Facilitated Private Sector Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Senegal

Firm Culture: Can Information Interventions Close Gender Gaps in Online Labour Markets?

Business incubators and entrepreneurship development in Africa’s innovation systems: a bibliometric review

Labour Market Power, Self-employment, and Development

Firm size and mobility: descriptive evidence from the Senegalese formal sector, 2008-2020

Consumer search and firm location: Theory and evidence from the garment sector in Uganda

Matching with the Right Attitude: the Effect of Matching Firms with Refugee Workers

Monitoring Harassment in Organizations

An Investigation into Product Market Integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

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