PEDL Annual Workshop - Papers

Below are a selection of papers presented at the PEDL Annual Workshop, 14-15 March 2016 in London.

Not all papers presented are available for various reasons given by the authors.

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Monday 14 March

 

09.10 - 09.30 Microenterprise Development as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Nepal (Paper shown here part of a PhD thesis)

Ajay Thapa (Pokhara University)

10.10 - 10.30 The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Yogita Shamdasani (Columbia)

11.10 - 11.35 Management Matters in Hospitals’ Performance in Nepal (Paper 1 / Paper 2)

Shiva Raj Adhikari (Tribhuvan Unviersity)

11.35 - 11.50 Organizational Learning: Experimental Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Andreas Menzel (Warwick)

12.00 - 12.25 Supply Chain Risk and the Pattern of Trade

Hannes Malmberg (Stockholm University)

14.25-14.50 It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion

Morgan Hardy (Brown University)

15.15 - 15.40 The Supply of High Quality Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria

Adedayo James (National Center for Technology Management)

17.10 - 17.35 Competition, Financial Constraints and Misallocation

Simon Galle (Berkeley)

17.35 - 18.00 Does Technical Efficiency Dominate Resource Reallocation in Aggregate Productivity Growth? Firm-Level Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Swaziland

Samuel Mhlanga (University of Swaziland)

Tuesday 15 March

 

12.25 - 13.00 Finding a Path to Formalization in Benin: Early Results after the Introduction of the Entreprenant Legal Status

Victor Pouliquen (Paris School of Economics)

14.35 - 15.10 Firms and the Decline of Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Nik Engbom (Princeton)

16.50 - 17.25 Agglomeration Advantages in the Developing World: Identification and Micro-mechanisms

Girum Abebe Tefera (Ethiopian Development Research Institute) & Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto)