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 …

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

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …

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 …

Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption …

aid disbursement? Through a parallel set of surveys in two urban regions in Africa--with comparable education, cell phone … 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 …

a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …