This article reviews an emerging body of evidence on relational contracts, defined as
informal arrangements sustained by the value of future interactions. We focus on developing …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? We present
results from a field experiment that introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “Responsible Sourcing”(RS)
standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation …

Working conditions in many large factories in low income countries are difficult, and many
workers are internal migrants from rural areas. We examine the relationship between …

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that
women's wages are 20 percent lower than men's and are 8 percent lower even among …

This study examines an initiative by a large multinational garment retailer (H&M Group) to
increase wages at its supplier factories by intervening in their wage‐related management …

We study differences in markups earned by Bangladeshi garment exporters across buyers
with different sourcing strategies and make three contributions. First, we distinguish buyers …

After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect
responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) …

Women remain disadvantaged in access to management positions around the world. We
conduct a field experiment with 24 large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for …