Productivity

Competition and Management Upgrading: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

This research investigates how competition affects firms' willingness to invest in management upgrading, a crucial factor for productivity growth in developing countries.

Research Note
10 Jul 2025

High Returns, Low Adoption: Air Purifiers in Bangladeshi Firms

Even under the most optimistic regulatory scenarios, many developing countries will continue to face decades of dangerously elevated pollution levels.

Working Paper
4 Jul 2025

Firm relocation as environmental policy: impacts on firms and air quality

We study an environmental place-based policy that randomly moved over 20,000 small firms in New Delhi to industrial areas outside the city over several years.

Research Note
28 Apr 2025

Embedding Agroforestry into Supply-Chains: Experimental Evidence with a Large Coffee Buyer in East Africa

Agroforestry, a farming system where trees are grown alongside crops, has the potential to help achieve multiple development objectives. It can help coffee farms combat climate change by acting as carbon sinks. Beyond reducing carbon emissions, agroforestry helps shield coffee plants from heat and heavy rains, increasing resilience to climate change. Further, products of agroforestry can provide important independent income stream to farmers facing extreme poverty.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Finacial Constraints to Exporting: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda's Export Frowth Fund

Strong export performance is often seen as key to unleashing firm productivity and spurring economic growth, both for the exporting firms themselves and for the broader economy. Given these perceived benefits, middle and low-income country (LMIC) governments commonly implement export promotion policies that aim to alleviate market failures hindering export growth.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Brine and Burden: How Salinisation Threatens Worker Productivity and Health in Coastal Bangladesh

Little is known about the economic impacts of high salt intake resulting from climate change-induced salinization (CCIS).

Research Note
2 Apr 2025

Worker Productivity Impacts of Climate Change Induced Salinisation

Climate change-induced salinisation (CCIS) has exacerbated the global crisis of safe drinking water, particularly in vulnerable coastal regions of low-income countries.

Working Paper
2 Apr 2025

The Role of (Mis)Perceptions in Product Choice: Evidence from a Randomised Trial in Zambia

We study whether small retailers are deterred from stocking products by misperceptions about their profitability.

Research Note
24 Mar 2025

Monitoring in Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Public Transit

Small firms struggle to grow beyond a few employees. We introduce monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomize which minibus owners have access to the data using a novel mobile app.

Journal Article
14 Jan 2025

Asymmetric Information and Digital Technology Adoption: Evidence from Senegal

Digital technologies have the potential to increase firm productivity. However, they often come bundled with data observability, which can be a double-edged sword.

Working Paper
14 Jan 2025

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