New #PEDLJournalArticle by Xinshen Diao (IFPRI), Mia Ellis (IFPRI), Margaret McMillan (Tufts University) and Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School) sheds light on Africa's manufacturing puzzle. bit.ly/4e9SOKA #Manufacturing #LaborForce #Growth

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Jing Cai (Univ. of Maryland) and Adam Szeidl (Central European University) published by the #AmericanEconomicReview. The authors investigate the indirect effects of access to finance. bit.ly/3681JA1 #AccesstoFinance #IndirectEffects

New #PEDLResearchNote by Eyoual Demeke (Policy Studies Institute), Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau) and Tewodros Tesemma (Policy Studies Institute) examines the weak take-up of digital payment technologies among MSMEs in developing countries. bit.ly/9537RN1 #DigitalPayment

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Wycliffe Oluoch (Wits Business School) and Kalu Ojah (UCT Graduate School of Business) 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

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New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Abiola Oyebanjo 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 Frank Germann (University of Notre Dame), Stephen J. Anderson (Texas A&M University), Pradeep Chintagunta (Chicago Booth) and Naufel Vilcassim (LSE Management) studying mentor gender impact on female entrepreneurs. bit.ly/3V2sSKj #FemaleEntrepreneurs #Mentorship

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Jing Cai (Univ. of Maryland), Wei Lin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) and Adam Szeidl (Central European University) investigates the impact of firm-to-firm referrals. bit.ly/3YYkb52 #ProfessionalNetworks #Referrals

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Yunyu Shu (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 Carolyn Pelnik (Tufts University) studies spatial misallocation of entrepreneurs within the city of Kampala, Uganda. bit.ly/412MTo5 #SpatialMisallocation #Mobility #Frictions

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Yuen Ho (UC Berkeley) and Yihong Huang (Peking University) examines supervisor discretion in the selection of workers for promotion to managerial positions. bit.ly/7071WP1 #Discretion #Promotion

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Patrick Agte (Yale Economic Growth Center), Arielle Bernhardt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)), Erica Field (Duke Economics), Rohini Pande (Yale Economic Growth Center) and Natalia Rigol (Harvard Business School) published by the American Economic Review. bit.ly/1018JA1 #ChildrenEducation #Microenterprise

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Azhar Hussain (LSE Department of Economics) estimates the immediate effects of flooding on key economic variables in Indonesia. bit.ly/9035WP1 #Flooding #Firms #ClimateChange

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Deivy Houeix (@MITecon) explores the trade-off between data observability and digital payment technology adoption by the Senegalese taxi industry. bit.ly/3E6FQ3W #DigitalPayment #AsymmetricInformation

New #PEDLJournalArticle by @erinmunrokelley (The University of Chicago), Gregory Lane (The University of Chicago) and David Schönholzer (UC Santa Cruz) introduces monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomises access to the data. bit.ly/3839JA #Monitoring

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Gauthier Marchais, Christian Mastaki Mugaruka, Miguel Ortiz, Raul Sanchez de la Sierra and @david_wqh analyses the role of community in the rise of militias. bit.ly/1030WP1

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Soeren J. Henn, Christian Mastaki Mugaruka, Miguel Ortiz, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra and @david_wqh published by The Review of Economic Studies. bit.ly/1030JA1

New #PEDLJournalArticle by Gharad Bryan (LSE Department of Economics), Dean Karlan (Northwestern) and Adam Osman (University of Illinois) published by the #AmericanEconomicReview. bit.ly/289JA

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Edward Wiles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) and Deivy Houeix (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) studies the potential of smartphone ownership and social media usage to alleviate search and trust frictions along the supply chain. bit.ly/10014WP2