
Oriana Bandiera is Professor of Economics and the Director of the Suntory and Toyota Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD and IZA. She is director of the research programme in State Capabilities within the International Growth Centre (IGC), and of the research programme in Development Economics at CEPR. She is co-editor of Microeconomic Insights, the Journal of Labor Economics and Economica. Her research focuses on the ways in which incentives affect people’s behaviour, and how far these effects depend on social context or social relationships. Professor Bandiera was the 2011 recipient of Carlo Alberto medal, which is awarded biennially to an Italian economist under the age of 40 for outstanding research contributions to the field of economics.
Recent work by Oriana Bandiera
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Do social structures affect the success of development policies?
Policy delivery agents perform better when working with members of their own social groups thereby affecting the efficiency of policy interventions
Audio : Institutions & Political Economy
Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess Erika Deserranno Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Ricardo Morel
Published 23.09.20
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Why does poverty persist?
Does poverty continue due to differences in ability or limited access to opportunities?
Video : Macroeconomics & Growth
Clare Balboni Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess Maitreesh Ghatak
Published 22.07.20
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Autonomy – not rules – may be a government’s best weapon in the fight against corruption
Giving government procurement officers more leeway in decision-making over expenses could save billions
Katie Parry Oriana Bandiera Michael Best Adnan Khan Andrea Prat
Published 22.05.20
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Is it time to rethink poverty policy?
New study offers perhaps the first empirical example of poverty traps and shows that one-off transfers can provide a sustainable route out of poverty
Katie Parry Robin Burgess Oriana Bandiera
Published 14.02.20
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Solving sub-Saharan Africa’s demographic challenge: Matching firms and workers
Evidence from Uganda shows both vocational training and within-firm training help workers find better-paid jobs, but with crucial differences
Video : Labour Markets & Migration
Published 27.11.19
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Alleviating poverty with experimental research: The 2019 Nobel laureates
The Nobel nomination’s emphasis on the practical applications of Banerjee’s, Duflo’s and Kremer’s methods represents a monumental and welcome change
Articles : Methods & Measurement
Published 01.11.19
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Empowering adolescent girls in Sierra Leone under the Ebola crisis
In the midst of the Ebola crisis an empowerment programme acts as a shield for adolescent girls
Oriana Bandiera Niklas Buehren Markus Goldstein Imran Rasul Andrea Smurra
Published 06.09.19
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Hiring do-gooders or go-getters: Attracting talent to improve public service delivery in Zambia
In an experiment conducted with the Ministry of Health, workers recruited via career incentive ads proved more effective at delivering health services
Oriana Bandiera Julia Tobias Nava Ashraf
Published 13.10.17
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Labour markets and poverty in village economies
Programme to provide ultra-poor women in Bangladesh with livestock assets suggests one-off interventions can be effective in fighting extreme poverty
Articles : Labour Markets & Migration
Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess Imran Rasul
Published 29.06.17