Project • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing, Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy, Research Theme 5: Political Economy and Public Investment

The Economic Impact of Audits

This project has been retired

Years active

November 2021 to October 2022

Funding category

PhD Research Grants

Project summary to follow.

PhD Research Grants

First Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

Closed • Deadline 13 September 2021 • PhD Research Grants

Research Team

David J. Henning

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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

Past project

Cash Transfers in Slack Labour Market

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

Past 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

Synthesis Paper

New Views of Structural Transformation: Insights from Recent Literature

Douglas Gollin, Joseph P. Kaboski 10 January 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

Past 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

Past 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

Past project

Electrification, New Technologies, and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Senegal

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

Past project

Transition to Clean Energy Technologies

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

Past project

Natural Resource Abundance and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from Mine Openings

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

Past 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

Does Electrification Matter for Child Development? Evidence from Ethiopia

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

Past project

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

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

Financing Costs and Development

Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno Martins, Cezar Santos 29 March 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries

Jaedo Choi, Younghun Shim 26 March 2024 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Market Day Coordination, Market Size, and Rural Development

Moritz Poll 19 February 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Economic Growth and the Rise of Large Firms

Zhang Chen 23 October 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

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

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

The Incidence of Distortions in the Developing World

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

Past 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

Indigenisation and Political Risk: Evidence from the Global Mining Sector

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

Past 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

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

The Gender Division of Work Across Countries

Charles Gottlieb, Cheryl Doss, Douglas Gollin, Markus Poschke 11 April 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban

Alejandro Estefan, Roberto Gerhard, Joseph P. Kaboski, Illenin Kondo, Wei Qian 15 March 2024 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

Andrea Atencio de Leon, Munseob Lee, Claudia Macalus 14 March 2024 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Estimating Poverty Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from Pseudo-Panel Data 1991-2018

Josephat Hongoli, Vincent Leyaro 19 February 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Income Diversification and Household Welfare in Tanzania 1991-2018: Evidence from a Synthetic Panel

Vincent Leyaro, Josephat Hongoli 19 February 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Project Policy Brief

Paternalistic Discrimination

Nina Buchmann, Carl Meyer, Colin D. Sullivan 31 January 2024 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Paternalistic Discrimination

Nina Buchmann, Carl Meyer, Colin D. Sullivan 30 January 2024 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Taxation when markets are not competitive: Evidence from a loan tax

Felipe Brugués, Rebecca De Simone 10 January 2024 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Land Abundance, Openness, and Industrialization

Adrian Wood 06 November 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Self-employment Within the Firm

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Esau Tugume 23 October 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

STEG Working Paper Series

Tradability and sectoral productivity differences across countries

Robert Inklaar, Ryan Marapin, Kaira Gräler 18 October 2023 • Research Theme 0: Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing

STEG Working Paper Series

Hunting Talents and Nurturing Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Countries

Abebe Ambachew Ayana 31 August 2023 • Research Theme 1: Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy

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

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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

Rural Marketplaces And Local Development

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

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

Digitizing Bureaucracy

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

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

Active project

Curse of the Cow: Barriers to Climate Adaptation in Pakistan’s “Biblical” Floods

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

Past project

Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Open Economy Perspective

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

Past 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

Past project

Structural Transformation and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Bangladesh

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

Past project

Occupational Dynasties and Economic Development

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

Past project

Poverty within and across Countries

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

Past project

Long-Run Analysis of Income Diversification and Household Welfare 1991-2021

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

Past 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

Rural Roads and Agricultural Value Chains

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

Past 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

Past project

Support Prices, Input Subsidies and Misallocation in Indian Agriculture

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

Past 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

PhD Research Grants

Seventh Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants

26 March 2024

STEG Working Paper Series

Misallocation and Product Choice

Stepan Gordeev, Sudhir Singh 05 April 2024 • Research Theme 3: Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps

Ideas for Transformation (I4T)

Good fences make good neighbours? Exploring potential transformative impacts of local governance towards livestock fence-in rights in Malawi

Maxwell Mkondiwa, Vernon Kabambe, Amos Ngwira 04 April 2024

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Ideas for Transformation (I4T)

The Rise of Business Services and Structural Transformation in India, Kenya and South Africa: Role of Female Labour Supply

Isha Gupta 03 April 2024 • Research Theme 2: Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of the Household

STEG Project Policy Brief

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