Labour markets in low-income countries are characterised by informal work, in which most people cycle between casual wage labour and low-return self-employment, facing weak returns to skills and experience. Improving outcomes will require not just more education but better matching, as well as a deeper understanding of worker constraints and employer behaviour.

Promoting sustained effortful mental activity in Indian primary schools markedly improved student cognitive and educational outcomes across a wide range of subjects.

A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...

Many rural workers turn to self-employment for lack of available jobs, not visions of entrepreneurship

Does easing the financial stress of short-term workers by paying them earlier lead to productivity improvements?

Social norms help sustain wage floors with workers taking jobs at wage cuts in private, but rejecting them in public due to fear of sanctions

Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.