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Oriana Bandiera

Oriana Bandiera

Associate, Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair of Economics, Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Co-director

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 7519
Email:
o.bandiera@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 3.02 B
Connect:
Twitter
Website
Links:
Hub for Equal Representation
Economics of Environment and Energy
Development
Psychology and Economics
Cohesive Capitalism
Department of Economics

Biography

Oriana Bandiera's current research interests are:

  • Development Economics
  • Contracts and Organizations
  • Public Policy
  • Labour Economics
  • Can entrepreneurship programs transform the lives of the poor?
  • Culture and incentives

Oriana's latest projects include:

Latest

STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Why do people stay poor?

01 March 2023

Robin Burgess (LSE), Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Imran Matin (BRAC), Shameran Abed (BRAC), Scott MacMillan (BRAC), Adnan Khan (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Recent research indicates there is a wealth threshold below which people are stuck in the so-called ‘poverty trap’ – where the initial wealth of a person and a system of oppression keeps them in a cycle of poverty rather... Read more...
Journal article
Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

01 June 2022

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under-representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

17 December 2021

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...
STICERD Public Events and Lectures
COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

10 November 2021

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRAC’s UPG program in rural areas of Bangladesh. The speakers, alongside a ... Read more...
IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
Organising Development

30 September 2021

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

People are poor because their labor is not paid enough to afford basic needs. To understand development we need to understand the jobs of the poor and how they change over the development path. The traditional view of de... Read more...
Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars
The misallocation of women's talent across countries: evidence from personnel data

01 April 2021

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar
The Accretion of Advantage in Childhood: Evidence from an 11-year Experiment in Bangladesh

08 October 2020

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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Development Discussion Papers
Development Policy through the Lens of Social Structure

29 May 2020

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Erika Deserranno, Ricardo Morel, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

This paper studies how the social structure of village economies affects policy implementation by local agents. We randomly select one of two viable candidates to deliver an agricultural extension program in rural Uganda... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
Why Do People Stay Poor?

09 March 2020

Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil

There are two views as to why people stay poor. The equal opportunity view emphasizes that differences in individual traits like talent or motivation make the poor choose low productivity jobs. The poverty traps view e... Read more...
Labour Markets Workshops
Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats

05 November 2019

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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Journal article
CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

03 July 2019

Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

We measure the behavior of over 1,100 CEOs in six countries (Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK and US) using a new methodology that combines (i) a survey measuring each activity undertaken in a random work-week by the e... Read more...
Journal article
Managing the family firm: Evidence from CEOs at work

01 May 2018

Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

We build a comparable and bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply for 1,114 CEOs and investigate whether family and professional CEOs differ along this dimension. Family CEOs work 9% fewer hours relative to professional CE... Read more...
Journal article
Nation-building through compulsory schooling during the age of mass migration

20 April 2018

Oriana Bandiera, Myra Mohnen, Imran Rasul and Martina Viarengo

Why did America introduce compulsory schooling laws at a time when financial investments in education and voluntary school attendance were high? We provide qualitative and quantitative evidence that states adopted compul... Read more...
CVER Seminar
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

10 January 2018

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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Development Discussion Papers
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labour Market Experiment in Uganda

08 January 2018

Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali

We design a labour market experiment to compare demand-side and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies

06 April 2016

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

We study how women’s choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable... Read more...
CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Family business: management effort and firm performance

30 July 2015

Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

Might familyowned, familyrun firms be a serious obstacle to productivity growth in Europe? Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun have collected time use data on over 1,000 chief executive officers to explore d... Read more...
STICERD Psychology and Economics Seminar
Recruiting for the state: the selection effect of career incentives on performance

11 February 2014

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

We study how career and social incentives affect who self-selects into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service. We collaborate with the Government of Zambia to experimentally vary th... Read more...
CEP/LSE Labour Seminar
Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?

02 November 2012

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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Labour Markets Workshops
No margin, No mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives and Productivity in a Non-Profit Organization

22 February 2011

Oriana Bandiera (LSE)

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