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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
  • 2016 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Oriana Bandiera is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences, with focus areas including Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, and Business and International Management.

Their work covers a range of topics such as labor market dynamics and wage inequality, gender, labor, and family dynamics, firm innovation and growth, poverty, education and child welfare, microfinance and financial inclusion, innovation and socioeconomic development, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Bandiera include:

  • Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa (2020), published in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence From a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda (2020), published in Econometrica
  • Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services (2020), published in American Economic Review
  • Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa (2022), published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Do Women Respond Less to Performance Pay? Building Evidence from Multiple Experiments (2021), published in American Economic Review Insights

Frequent coauthors of Bandiera's research include:

  • Robin Burgess
  • Imran Rasul
  • Andrea Prat
  • Munshi Sulaiman
  • Nava Ashraf

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economica
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of the European Economic Association
  • The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Awards and recognitions received by Bandiera include the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2019, election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2016, and being an Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique

    Oriana Bandiera;Imran Rasul

  • Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • Social Incentives in the Workplace

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND INCENTIVES IN THE WORKPLACE: EVIDENCE FROM PERSONNEL DATA

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • Active and passive waste in government spending: evidence from a policy experiment

    Oriana Bandiera;Andrea Prat;Tommaso Valletti

  • Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa ¤

    Oriana Bandiera;Niklas Buehren;Robin Burgess;Markus Goldstein

  • Incentives for Managers and Inequality among Workers: Evidence from a Firm-Level Experiment

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • Does Financial Reform Raise or Reduce Saving

    Oriana Bandiera;Gerard Caprio;Patrick Honohan;Fabio Schiantarelli

  • Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies

    Oriana Bandiera;Robin Burgess;Narayan Das;Selim Gulesci

  • TEAM INCENTIVES: EVIDENCE FROM A FIRM LEVEL EXPERIMENT

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • No margin, no mission? A field experiment on incentives for public service delivery

    Nava Ashraf;Oriana Bandiera;B. Kelsey Jack

  • CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

    Oriana Bandiera;Stephen Hansen;Andrea Prat;Raffaella Sadun

  • Land Reform, the Market for Protection, and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: Theory and Evidence

    Oriana Bandiera

  • Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

    Oriana Bandiera;Luigi Guiso;Andrea Prat;Raffaella Sadun

  • Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

    Nava Ashraf;Oriana Bandiera;Scott Sang-Hyun Lee

  • Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

    Oriana Bandiera;Valentino Larcinese;Imran Rasul

  • Losing prosociality in the quest for talent? Sorting, selection, and productivity in the delivery of public services

    Nava Ashraf;Oriana Bandiera;Edward Davenport;Scott S. Lee

  • Field Experiments with Firms

    Oriana Bandiera;Iwan Barankay;Imran Rasul

  • Nation-Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass Migration

    Oriana Bandiera;Myra Mohnen;Imran Rasul;Martina Viarengo

  • Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence From a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

    Livia Alfonsi;Oriana Bandiera;Vittorio Bassi;Robin Burgess

  • Labor markets and poverty in village economies

    Oriana Bandiera;Robin Burgess;Narayan Das;Selim Gulesci

Frequent Co-Authors

Imran Rasul
Imran Rasul University College London
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrea Prat
Andrea Prat Columbia University
Luigi Guiso
Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
James E. Anderson
James E. Anderson Boston College
Tommaso M. Valletti
Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London
Gerard Caprio
Gerard Caprio Williams College
Fabio Schiantarelli
Fabio Schiantarelli Boston College
Patrick Honohan
Patrick Honohan Trinity College Dublin
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven Princeton University

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