Researchers test whether it is possible to nudge small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to use formal hiring channels and whether an improvement in technology will formalise hiring techniques. 

A large-scale survey over 58 countries shows a strong association between perceptions of insufficient government response and lower mental well-being from respondents.

How do people make future choices in settings of uncertainty? We posit that the performance of different strategies stored in the brain can be accessed through mental visualisation (or imagery). We further hypothesise that people who have experienced trauma face greater barriers in undertaking visualisation and hence stand to benefit more from the intervention. To test this theory, we developed a curriculum to teach entrepreneurs in Bogotá how to visualise the likely outcomes of their choices and study the impact of this intervention on their economic and psychological resilience.

This project introduces a novel methodology for treatment assignment, which aims to balance the goals of maximising the precision of treatment effect estimates and maximising the welfare of experimental participants. The assignment algorithm is applied to three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan.