Gender

Firm Culture: How Social Norms Affect Gender Bias in Hiring in Online Labour Markets

Social norms that shape expectations of women’s roles within groups can cause gender inequality in employment to persist, even in high information environments. We test this hypothesis using new data from the largest online job platform in Nigeria.

Working Paper
28 Apr 2025

Adoption of Digital Payment Technologies and Access to Finance among MSMEs in Ethiopia: Exploratory Evidence

Digital Payment Technologies (DPTs) offer significant benefits for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries, including lower transaction costs, improved security, and enhanced access to credit through verifiable transaction r

Working Paper
8 Apr 2025

Female Entrepreneurship and Trust in the Market

Commerce requires trust, but trust is difficult when one group can expropriate another using violence or social power.

Working Paper
25 Mar 2025

Managers’ and Households’ Attitude Toward Women Working in Factories: Role Model Firms and Information Interventions in Pakistan

Women’s work outside the home (WWOH) rate in Pakistan is among the lowest in the world. This is partly due to employer’s having incorrect information and beliefs about women’s ability to carry out work (a demand-side information constraint) and social stigma preventing women and their families from seeking jobs related information (a supply-side information constraint).

Research Project
3 Dec 2024

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children’s education.

Publication
26 Nov 2024

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs Through Female Mentors

Among the millions of entrepreneurs in developing economies, few are able to earn a decent livelihood. To help these entrepreneurs succeed, governmental and nongovernmental organizations invest billions of dollars every year in providing training programs.

Journal Article
19 Nov 2024

Bridging the Gender Gap in Credit Access by Small Businesses in Low-Income Countries: The Transformative Impact of Digital Lending

This project investigates the impact of digital lending on reducing the gender gap in the credit markets and the performance of small businesses in Kisumu City, Kenya.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Does weak contract enforcement hurt female entrepreneurship and inter-gender business linkages?

This project is a series of low-cost lab-in-the-field interventions that aim to identify the causal effects of institutions on business performance and gender gaps, and explore the channels behind this effect in Lusaka, Zambia.

Research Project
28 Oct 2024

Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labour Markets

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions.

Journal Article
4 Oct 2024

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.

Working Paper
28 Jun 2024

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