Morgan Hardy is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Division of New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses broadly on private enterprise development and employment in low-income countries. She employs a variety of experimental and applied methods, often using originally collected data from Africa. Her field projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria consider topics including combating youth unemployment, improving small business profits, community-level impacts of industrialization, gender pay inequality, and the dynamics of small business owner networks.