We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous
evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement over …

Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help
jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to
global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This …

Every year, millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper harmonizes
surveys and censuses from 68 low-and middle-income countries to compare their job …

Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly
assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural …

We study the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development
(SEED) program, an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school …

We evaluate two interventions targeting young women in Nairobi, Kenya. The first is a
multifaceted program involving vocational training, in-kind transfers of physical capital, and …

The limited market size of many small emerging economies is a key constraint to the growth
of innovative small and medium enterprises. Exporting offers a potential solution, but firms …

Standard in-person business training programs are costly and difficult to scale to the millions
of microenterprises in the developing world. We conduct an experiment to test the feasibility …

Evidence suggests that many firms in lower-income countries stagnate because they cannot
access growth-conducive markets. We hypothesize that overlooked informational barriers …