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Christopher Woodruff

Christopher Woodruff

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
61
Citations
26111
World Ranking
766
National Ranking
85

Overview

Christopher Woodruff is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics and Econometrics, with additional work intersecting Accounting, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Management Information Systems, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their recent papers include varied topics and publication venues: Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka (2020) published in The Review of Economics and Statistics; Gender wage gaps and worker mobility: Evidence from the garment sector in Bangladesh (2021) featured in Labour Economics; Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labour Courts (2024) appearing in The Review of Economic Studies; Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector (2020) published in SSRN Electronic Journal; and Business practices in small firms in developing countries 2010-2015 (2020) available via RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

The primary topics associated with Woodruff's work include:

  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Auction Theory and Applications
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Woodruff include:

  • Claudia Martinez A.
  • Andreas Menzel
  • Olaf Oseguera
  • Claudia Martínez Alvear
  • Federico Huneeus

Woodruff's research is often published in venues linked to experimental and applied economics. These include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The Review of Economic Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Labour Economics

Best Publications

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Property Rights and Finance

    Simon Johnson;John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Property Rights and Finance

    Simon Johnson;John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Suresh de Mel;David J. McKenzie;David J. McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam

    John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies

    John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after communism

    Simon Johnson;Daniel Kaufmann;John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Migration networks and microenterprises in Mexico

    Christopher Woodruff;Rene Zenteno

  • Courts and Relational Contracts

    Simon Johnson;John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world

    David J. McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Experimental evidence on returns to capital and access to finance in Mexico

    David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

    Marcel Fafchamps;David McKenzie;Simon R. Quinn;Christopher Woodruff

  • What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world

    David J. Mckenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?☆

    Suresh De Mel;David J. McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics : Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

    Suresh De Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

    Suresh de Mel;David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Private Order under Dysfunctional Public Order

    John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises

    David J. McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Dispute Prevention Without Courts in Vietnam

    John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

  • Formal Measures of the Informal-Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador, and Peru*

    Douglas Marcouiller;Veronica Ruiz de Castilla;Christopher Woodruff

  • Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

    David McKenzie;Christopher Woodruff

  • Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity after Communism

    Simon Johnson;John McMillan;Christopher Woodruff

Frequent Co-Authors

John McMillan
John McMillan Stanford University
Marcel Fafchamps
Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University
Craig McIntosh
Craig McIntosh University of California, San Diego
Robert W. Fairlie
Robert W. Fairlie University of California, Los Angeles
Luc Laeven
Luc Laeven European Central Bank
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria International Monetary Fund
Stephan Haggard
Stephan Haggard University of California, San Diego
Gail Hanson
Gail Hanson University of California, Riverside

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