productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in … to purchase fertilizer. Consistent with the model, many farmers in Western Kenya fail to take advantage of apparently …

, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of … the variation in outcomes - sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP - in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …

rate spread, and non-performing loans. A TFP decomposition finds that most of the productivity gains are captured by a …

in a two-stage randomized field experiment in Kenya. We find that, for a new technology with a lower usage cost than the …

Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …