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Values of Directors, Gender Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Industrial Region of Ghana

In recent years, gender diversity has gained considerable attention at both the global and national levels and is aimed at multiple perspectives including governance and operations.

Working Paper
26 Jun 2023

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment

We experimentally study the impact of relatively large enterprise loans in Egypt.

Working Paper
1 Jun 2023

Electricity Supply and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Large Experiment in Bihar

We conduct a large-scale randomised experiment with two electricity distribution companies in the state of Bihar in India, to test the impact of a new power allocation rule on consumer payment rates and firm outcomes.

Working Paper
7 May 2023

Labour Market Power, Self-employment, and Development

This paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development.

Working Paper
15 Apr 2023

Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks

Female-owned businesses continue to be smaller and less profitable than male-owned firms. We conduct an RCT in Ghana on a sample of 1,771 growth-oriented female entrepreneurs to investigate the effect of online networking groups on firm performance.

Working Paper
12 Apr 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.

Working Paper
23 Feb 2023

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

Business incubators are a policy tool for spurring and supporting entrepreneurial businesses. In recent years, many African countries have established many of them.

Working Paper
9 Feb 2023

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

How to integrate disadvantaged workers such as immigrants and refugees into host-country labor markets is a pressing global question.

Working Paper
3 Feb 2023

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