
Morgan Hardy is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Division of New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses broadly on private enterprise development and employment in low-income countries. She employs a variety of experimental and applied methods, often using originally collected data from Africa. Her field projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria consider topics including combating youth unemployment, improving small business profits, community-level impacts of industrialization, gender pay inequality, and the dynamics of small business owner networks.
Recent work by Morgan Hardy
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How financial need affects pricing: Evidence from small businesses in Ghana
Poorer business owners settle for lower prices when bargaining with buyers
Morgan Hardy Gisella Kagy Lena Song
Published 12.09.22
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How demand can inspire peer-to-peer technological learning: Evidence from small firms in Ghana
Increased demand was seen to induce technology diffusion among garment workers, but willingness of both learner and the teacher is necessary
Published 03.05.21
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If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap
Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.
Published 01.06.18
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If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap
Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.
Published 20.02.18