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 …

Despite the popularity of business training among policy-makers, its use has faced
increasing scepticism. Most of the first randomized experiments could not detect statistically …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses
stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention, as well as …

We consider a model of technological learning under which people “learn through noticing”:
they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from …

This article studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot,
Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw …

Background The adoption of improved technologies is generally associated with better
economic performance and development. Despite its desirable effects, the process of …

Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

We here consider how Chinese firms react to higher minimum wages, exploiting the 2004
minimum-wage Reform in China. After this reform, we find that the wage costs for surviving …

We collate sixteen panel surveys from twelve developing countries to develop stylized facts
from over 14,000 firms on how much firm death there is, which types of these firms are most …