Researchers examine whether exposure to role models through a video documentary can change individual’s aspirations and their future-oriented investments, such as investments in their children’s education.

Researchers partner with the organisations BRAC and MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit to develop and study a way to treat or prevent depression among adolescents in low-resource settings.  

Researchers partner with Harambee Youth Accelerator in South Africa to investigate the potential for using skill measures  to determine matches of work-seekers to job opportunities. .

Can a psychological intervention enhance the known positive economic effects of cash transfers ?

This study investigates how a large, one-off cash transfer from an NGO to the poorest 40% of households in a thousand villages in western Kenya impacts civic engagement and community behaviour. 

This project looks at how voters process information from pre-election polls, and examines the effect of different messages on voter turnout, vote choice and election and party beliefs.

Researchers partner with GiveDirectly to test whether a cash transfer or aspirational video can impact women’s control of household resources or experiences of intimate partner violence. 

Researchers test whether visualisation and planning interventions can impact preventive health investments.  

Kiss, Garlick, Orkin and Hensel (2023) provide the first direct evidence that workers’ beliefs about their skills influence how they direct their search across jobs with different skill demands – which, in turn, impacts their labour market outcomes.

In Nairobi, Kenya, researchers use worker and firm surveys to examine the relative importance of beliefs and preferences of both firms and jobseekers, to explore the root causes of a pervasive gender gap in labour market outcomes.

Researchers partner with the Busara Center for Behavioural Economics to deliver and evaluate a scalable cognitive behavioural therapy for young workseekers in Nairobi.