The Economic Impact of Audits

David J. Henning

David J. Henning

Past project

Clustering at the Business Level: Competitive Forces and Micro-Firm Markets

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Production Network Growth and Resilience: Evidence from Rwanda and Uganda

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Cash Transfers in Slack Labour Market

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Intergenerational Impact of Labour Coercion

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Rural Market Coordination

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Unlocking the Chinese Miracle with Historical Satellites

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Hunting Talents and Nurturing Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Ethiopia

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

The Implications of Internet Upgrades for Domestic Market Integration in Kenya

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Understanding the Role of Informal Firm Clusters for Productivity and Growth

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Larger Research Grants

Past project

Trade Exposure, Market Concentration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from Uganda

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Small Research Grants

Past project

Can Natural Resources Promote Industrialisation? Firms, Competition, and Spillovers from an Industrial Policy

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Active project

AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Phasing Out Fertiliser Subsidies in India

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Two-Sided Market Power in Buyer-Supplier Networks: Evidence from Chilean Transaction Data

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Tax Dispersion and the Spatial Allocation of Economic Activity

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Transition to Clean Energy Technologies

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Natural Resource Abundance and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from Mine Openings

Research Theme 5: Political Economy and Public Investment • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Land Inequality and Rural Structural Transformation: The Role of Frictions in Land and Credit Markets

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

How does Technological Progress Matter for Intra-Household Resource-Allocation at Early Stages of Development? Evidence from Ethiopia

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Natural Resource Driven Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Ghana: Optimising Backward and Forward Linkages

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Understanding Disparate Structural Change and Growth Among Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Senegal and Mauritius

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Impact of Land Use Regulations on Housing Supply: Evidence from India

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Labour Market Frictions, the Organisation of Labour, and Structural Change

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Legacies of Military Forced Labour in Mali: Traditional Institutions and Local Development Outcomes

Research Theme 5: Political Economy and Public Investment • PhD Research Grants

STEG Working Paper Series

Trade Exposure and Social Cohesion: Evidence from Uganda

Kasper Vrolijk, Gideon Ndubuisi 06 July 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Project Policy Brief

Origins of the Mammoth: Emergence and Evolution of Large High-Growth Firms in Nigeria

Abiodun Egbetokun 22 June 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

Active project

The Incidence of Distortions in the Developing World

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Larger Research Grants

Active project

Spotlight Kampala: Illuminating Energy Inequities in Informal Urban Communities

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • Small Research Grants

Past project

Nutrition Demand, Subsistence Farming, and Agricultural Productivity

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Demographic Trends as Drivers of Structural Transformation

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Banks, Misallocation, and Structural Transformation: Evidence from India's Bank Expansion Policy in 2005

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Small Research Grants

Past project

Persistence in Employability and Wages of Youth Post-Wage Subsidies: Matched Firm-Employee Level Evidence from South Africa

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Small Research Grants

PhD Research Grants

Fifth Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

PhD Research Grants

PhD Research Grants

Fourth Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

18 July 2022 • PhD Research Grants

Past project

The Food Problem and Structural Change in Partially Open Economies

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • PhD Research Grants

Active project

Climate Shocks, Culture and Intra-household Redistribution: Evidence from Malawi

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Structural Transformation and Female Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Urban-Rural Wealth Gaps, Human Capital Risk, and Aggregate Savings along the Development Path

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Who Wants Property Rights? Conjoint Evidence from Senegal

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

PhD Research Grants

Third Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

11 April 2022 • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Bringing Work Home: Internet-Mediated Gig Work and Women’s Employment

Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household • PhD Research Grants

Past project

Using Digital Technology for Agricultural Mechanisation: Evidence from the Tractor Rental Market in Ghana

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • PhD Research Grants

STEG Working Paper Series

Global Value Chains, Job Creation, and Job Destruction among Firms in South Africa

Solomon Owusu, Gideon Ndubuisi 17 August 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

Data set

Wage and Employment Data in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ija Trapeznikova, Juan Pablo Rud 11 August 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Do Small Firms Partially Insure Customers from Price Increases? Evidence from Retail Firms in Tanzania

Jess Rudder 13 July 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Foreign Direct Investment, Geography, and Welfare

Jose Asturias, Marco Sanfilippo, Asha Sundaram 29 June 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Trade Integration, Industry Reallocation, and Welfare in Colombia

George Alessandria, Oscar Avila 22 June 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Project Policy Brief

Focal Points of Market Access: How Marketplaces Shape Rural Development over 50 years

Tillmann von Carnap 25 May 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Worker Mobility in Production Networks

Marvin Cardoza, Francesco Grigoli, Nicola Pierri, Cian Ruane 18 May 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Demand for Quality, Variable Markups and Misallocation: Evidence from India

Apoorv Gupta 04 May 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Timo Boppart, Patrick Kiernan, Per Krusell, Hannes Malmberg 26 April 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina Quispe, Monica Morlacco 15 April 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

The Great Upgrade

Alexandros Ragoussis, Jonathan Timmis 06 April 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

Active project

On the Political Economy of Urbanization: A Natural and Two Field Experiments Around the 2023 Local Elections in Mozambique

Research Theme 5: Political Economy and Public Investment • Larger Research Grants

Pathfinding Paper

Self Employment, Micro-Entrepreneurship, and Development

Austin Davis, Eric Hsu, Mitchell VanVuren 31 March 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

AI and Services-Led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts

Alexander Copestake, Max Marczinek, Ashley Pople, Katherine Stapleton 29 March 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Rural Marketplaces and Local Development

Tillmann von Carnap 23 March 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Misallocation and Financial Constraints Among Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fatou Kiné Thioune 16 March 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Place-based Policies, Structural Change and Female Labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones

Johannes Gallé, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel 13 March 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Remotely-sensed Market Activity as a High-frequency Economic Indicator in Remote Rural Areas

Tillmann von Carnap 07 March 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Industry Linkages from Joint Production

Xiang Ding 02 March 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

Active project

The Impact of Pollution on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Gas Flares in Nigeria

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • Small Research Grants

Active project

Clean Water

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • Larger Research Grants

STEG Working Paper Series

Searching for Customers, Finding Pollution

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew E. Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin 21 October 2022 • Searching for Customers, Finding Pollution

Active project

How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Understanding Land Investment and its Long-Run Impacts in Uganda

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • Larger Research Grants

STEG Working Paper Series

How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Joseph P. Kaboski, Molly Lipscomb, Virgiliu Midrigan, Carolyn Pelnik 22 February 2022

Active project

Structural Transformation and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Bangladesh

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • Small Research Grants

Active project

Labour Exchange Groups in Rural Tanzania: Can They Foster Development and Women’s Empowerment?

Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing • Small Research Grants

Active project

Family Firms and the Evolution of Production and Labour Networks

Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy • Small Research Grants

Active project

Support Prices, Input Subsidies and Misallocation in Indian Agriculture

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • Small Research Grants

Active project

Climate Change and the Regional Lake Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa: Analytical Framework, Predicted Economic Effects, and Policy Implications

Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps • Small Research Grants

Active project

Borders, Distance, Regional Economic Blocs, and Product Market Integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Research Theme 4: Trade and Spatial Frictions • Small Research Grants

Larger Research Grants

Fourth Call for Proposals for STEG Larger Research Grants

23 June 2023 • Larger Research Grants

STEG Project Policy Brief

Bringing Work Home: Internet-Mediated Gig Work and Women’s Employment

Lisa Ho, Anahita Karandikar, Suhani Jalota 17 August 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

STEG Working Paper Series

Who Wants Property Rights? Conjoint Evidence from Senegal

Matthew Ribar 10 August 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

Ideas for Transformation (I4T)

Breaking Barriers to Inclusion: Assessing Job Security, School-to-Work Transition and Discouragement Effects of Youth in Nigeria

Jamilu Said Babangida 25 July 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

STEG Working Paper Series

A Theory of Structural Change, Home Production and Leisure

Fenicia Cossu, Alessio Moro, F. Javier Rodríguez-Román, Silvio Tunis 21 July 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

Ideas for Transformation (I4T)

Voluntary sustainability standards, participation in global value chains and the livelihoods of mango farmers and farmworkers in Ghana

Rexford Akrong 18 July 2023 • Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps

STEG Project Policy Brief

Nutrition Demand, Subsistence Farming, and Agricultural Productivity

Stepan Gordeev 29 June 2023 • Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps

Small Research Grants

Sixth Call for Proposals for STEG Small Research Grants

Small Research Grants

STEG Working Paper Series

Structural Transformation and Gender-Specific Labour Market Frictions: Evidence from Nigeria

Jubril Animashaun, Lotanna E. Emediegwu 11 May 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

Journal Article

Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women’s Time in Home Production

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman, Komal Sareen 01 May 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

Data set

Rotating Panel Labor Force Surveys

Kevin Donovan, Will Lu, Todd Schoellman 18 April 2023

STEG Working Paper Series

Financial Access and Entrepreneurship by Gender: Evidence from Rural India

Sandhya Garg, Samarth Gupta, Sushanta Mallick 13 April 2023 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household