GLM|LIC Publications

The research and knowledge coming out of the GLM|LIC programme will not have the desired impact if they are not transformed into effective and widely disseminated research outputs. We work with project teams to produce and disseminate these outputs, including Working Papers, Policy Briefs, and Synthesis Papers.

Latest Policy Briefs

GLM\|LIC Policy Brief No. 32 Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo
GLM\|LIC Policy Brief No. 31 Child Labor Measurement in Agricultural Households: Seasonality, Proxy Respondent and Gender Information Gaps in Ethiopia
GLM\|LIC Policy Brief No. 30 Rural Roads and Local Economic Development
GLM\|LIC Policy Brief No. 29 Social Security Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Ethiopia
GLM\|LIC Policy Brief No. 28 Productivity under Twenty Years of Structural Change in Zimbabwe’s Manufacturing Sector

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Latest Synthesis Papers

GLM\|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 11 Gender, Jobs and Poverty
GLM\|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 10 The Demography of the Labor Force in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
GLM\|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 9 The Effects of Cash Transfers on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
GLM\|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 8 Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid
GLM\|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 7 What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries?

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Latest Working Papers

GLM\|LIC Working Paper No. 47 Child Labor Measurement in Agricultural Households: Seasonality, Proxy Respondent and Gender Information Gaps in Ethiopia
GLM\|LIC Working Paper No. 46 He Said, She Said: Child Labor Measurement in Ethiopia
GLM\|LIC Working Paper No. 45 Wage Growth and Social Security Reform
GLM\|LIC Working Paper No. 44 The Impact of Job Quality on Wellbeing: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
GLM\|LIC Working Paper No. 43 Child Labor Measurement in Agricultural Households

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Latest Published Articles

Krishna Kumar Shanthi Nataraj Italo A Gutierrez Krishna B Kumar Minhaj Mahmud Farzana Munshi Transitions between informal and formal employment: results from a worker survey in Bangladesh IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 9(3)
Krishna Kumar Shanthi Nataraj Minhaj Mahmud Italo A Gutierrez What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh The World Bank Economic Review, lhz046
Francisco Campos Markus Goldstein Leonardo Iacovone Michael Frese Hillary C. Johnson David McKenzie Mona Mensmann Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108, 256–261
Mona Mensmann Michael Frese Who stays proactive after entrepreneurship training? Need for cognition, personal initiative maintenance, and well‐being Journal of Organizational Behavior, 40, 20– 37
Francisco Campos Markus Goldstein Leonardo Iacovone Michael Frese Hillary C. Johnson David McKenzie Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa Science, 357(6357), 1287-1290

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