Friday Seminar with Morgan Hardy (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Morgan Hardy is Associate Professor of Economics and Faculty Director of Study Abroad of New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU Abu Dhabi). She is also an Affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). 

She is is a development economist whose research focuses broadly on private enterprise development and employment in low-income countries. Her research has employed a variety of experimental and applied methods, using originally collected data from Africa. She has active field projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Nigeria, on topics including combatting youth unemployment, improving small business profits, community-level impacts of industrialization, gender pay inequality, and the dynamics of small business owner networks.

Morgan Hardy's website

She will present a paper, joint with Jamie McCasland and Jiayue Zhang, at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Won't You Hire Your Neighbor? Experimental Evidence on Small Firm Labor Consolidation (read abstract, PDF 42 KB)

The next Friday Seminar will host Agathe Denis (JMC, PhD Sciences Po) on September 21st.