Oriana Bandiera

Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics, LSE.

About

I study organisations and labor markets, how they affect the process of development, and how they are affected by it. I am based in STICERD and the department of economics at the LSE.

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Research

In progress All papers

The Illusion of Time: Gender Gaps in Job Search and Employment

with Nina Roussille and Amen Jalal — Work in progress

Meritocracy across Countries

with Ilse Lindenlaub, Ananya Kotia, Chris Moser and Andrea Prat — NBER wp

Poverty Traps

with Robin Burgess, Anton Heil, and Munshi Sulaiman — for the Handbook of Development Economics

Meaning at Work

with Nava Ashraf, Virginia Minni, and Luigi Zingales

Beyond Bonuses: The Incentive Effect of a Prosocial Initiative on Bankers

with N. Ashraf, A. Delfino, and M. Fossi

Selected Publications

Why do people stay poor?

with Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess, Anton Heil and Maitreesh Ghatak — Quarterly Journal of Economics (2021)

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labour Market Experiment in Uganda

with Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali — Econometrica (2020)

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

with Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun — Journal of Political Economy (2019)

Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

with Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman — AEJ: Applied (2019)

Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies

with Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman — Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017)

Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

with Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti — American Economic Review (2009)

Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data

with Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul — Econometrica (2009)

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Students on the market

Earlier cohorts

Ignacio Banares Sanchez Anton Heil Nilmini Herath Amen Jalal Ananya Kotia Andrea Smurra Caterina Soto Viera Sarah Winton

Teaching

Current and past courses.

EC307: Development Economics

Undergraduate • LSE

Course page

FCDO/IZA Online Development Course

Open resources

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