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We’re excited to share that PEDL is now part of the Growth Research Platform (GRP) — bringing PEDL, STEG & ReCIPE together under one umbrella.

Same PEDL programme, now on one unified site with publications, projects, events & calls: grp.cepr.org/pedl

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Edward Wiles (@MIT) and @DeivyHoueix (@MIT) studies the potential of smartphone ownership and social media usage to alleviate search and trust frictions along the supply chain.

bit.ly/10014WP2

New #PEDLJournalArticle by @gharadbryan (@LSEEcon), @deankarlan (@NorthwesternU) and @adammosman (@UofIllinois) published by the #AmericanEconomicReview.

bit.ly/289JA

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Soeren J. Henn, Christian Mastaki Mugaruka, @mortiz217, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra and @david_wqh published by The Review of Economic Studies.

bit.ly/1030JA1

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Gauthier Marchais, Christian Mastaki Mugaruka, @mortiz217, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra and @david_wqh analyses the role of community in the rise of militias.

bit.ly/1030WP1

The Finance & Entrepreneurship Theme of the PEDL programme invites submissions for a workshop on AI, Finance, and Entrepreneurship to be held in person on June 16-18 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya.

More information available here: bit.ly/3CcPFwO

New #PEDLJournalArticle by @erinmunrokelley (@UChicago), Gregory Lane (@UChicago) and @davidfromterra (@ucsc) introduces monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomises access to the data.

bit.ly/3839JA

#Monitoring

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by @DeivyHoueix (@MITecon) explores the trade-off between data observability and digital payment technology adoption by the Senegalese taxi industry.

bit.ly/3E6FQ3W

#DigitalPayment #AsymmetricInformation

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Azhar Hussain (@LSEEcon) estimates the immediate effects of flooding on key economic variables in Indonesia.

bit.ly/9035WP1

#Flooding #Firms #ClimateChange

New #PEDLJournalArticle by @PatrickAgte (@YaleEGC), Arielle Bernhardt (@MIT), Erica Field (@DukeEcon), Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC) and Natalia Rigol (@HarvardHBS) published by the American Economic Review.

bit.ly/1018JA1

#ChildrenEducation #Microenterprise

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Yuen Ho (@UCBerkeley) and Yihong Huang (@PKU1898) examines supervisor discretion in the selection of workers for promotion to managerial positions.

bit.ly/7071WP1

#Discretion #Promotion

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by @CarolynPelnik (@TuftsUniversity) studies spatial misallocation of entrepreneurs within the city of Kampala, Uganda.

bit.ly/412MTo5

#SpatialMisallocation #Mobility #Frictions

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by @YunyuShu (@Brown_Economics) and Jiayue Zhang (@Brown_Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under different subsidy schemes for cocoa farmers in Ghana.

bit.ly/4fDNjFC

#ClimateAdaptation #Cocoa

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Jing Cai (@UofMaryland), Wei Lin (@cuhksz) and Adam Szeidl (@ceu) investigates the impact of firm-to-firm referrals.

bit.ly/3YYkb52

#ProfessionalNetworks #Referrals

New #PEDLJournalArticle by @f_germann (@NotreDame), Stephen J. Anderson (@TAMU), Pradeep Chintagunta (@ChicagoBooth) and Naufel Vilcassim (@LSEManagement) studying mentor gender impact on female entrepreneurs.

bit.ly/3V2sSKj

#FemaleEntrepreneurs #Mentorship

📣🎉REGISTRATION IS OPEN for the CSAE Conference 2025 #OxCSAE2025

Join us for 3 days to discuss economic development in Africa across a range of topics.

📆23-25 March 2025
🏢Oxford, UK
💻Register by 23 Feb (05 Jan for speakers): cvent.me/MmdZ3g

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by @abiola1864 investigates if personalised digital record-keeping support for small firms in developing countries can increase the likelihood of digital record adoption and enhance the accuracy of profit tracking over time.

bit.ly/4eCMprW

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Wycliffe Oluoch (@witsbschool) and Kalu Ojah (@UCTGSB) examines financial market development from the perspective of the microstructure of corporate bond markets, and its efficiency effects on cost of debt in Africa.

bit.ly/5415JA1

New #PEDLResearchNote by Eyoual Demeke (Policy Studies Institute), Asha Sundaram (@AucklandUni) and Tewodros Tesemma (Policy Studies Institute) examines the weak take-up of digital payment technologies among MSMEs in developing countries.

bit.ly/9537RN1

#DigitalPayment