Christopher Woodruff is Professor of Development Economics and a Fellow at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at IZA.
His research focuses on enterprises in low-income countries, with noted work on returns to capital investments in microenterprises and the effect of formal registration on enterprise performance. He is a pioneer in the use of field experiments in firms.
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