PEDL / IGC Conference on Firms and the Private Sector in Low-Income Countries, 2018 - Papers

PEDL / IGC Conference on Firms and the Private Sector in
Low-Income Countries, 2018 

London, 13-14 December 2018

Papers

“Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply” (Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur and Nandita Krishnaswamy)

“The Mechanics of Job Search Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda” (Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, and Anna Vitali)

“Improving Export Quality: The Case of the Sustainable Quality Program in Colombian Coffee” (Rocco Macchiavello and Josepa Miquel-Forensa)

“Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia” (Leonardo Iacovone, William Maloney and David McKenzie)

“Input tariffs, Roads and Firm Performance: Evidence from Ethiopia (Matteo Fiorini, Marco Sanfilippo, and Asha Sundaram)

“The Impact of Monitoring Technologies on Contracts and Employee Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Kenya's Matatu Industry” (Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane and David Schönholzer)

“Women, Entrepreneurship and Institutions” (Nava Ashraf, Alexia Delfino, and Edward Glaeser) 

“Political Connections and Misallocation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from Ecuador” (Felipe Brugués, Javier Brugués and Samuele Giambra) 

“Can Decentralized Vocational Training Work? Evidence from a National Apprenticeship Program Evaluation in Ghana” (Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, and Jamie McCasland)

“Measuring Changes in the Ghanian Firm Size Distribution: 1962 - 2014” (Andrew Kerr and Bruce McDougall)

“Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design” (Goujun He, Shaoda Wang, and Bing Zhang) 

“Do Marketing Channel Reforms Increase Competition? Evidence from Indian Produce Markets” (Jorge Ale-Chilet and Beáta ItinShwartz) 

"Break “Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives” (Francesco Amodio, Jieun Choi, Giacomo De Giorgi, and Aminur Rahman)