Christopher Woodruff

Institution: Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 1994

Most Recent: 2019

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Last 10 Years	2.02	1.35	1.01	4.37	68%
All Time	26.24	14.80	9.75	50.79	98%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 28

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 23.71

Publications (28)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2019	What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka	Review of Economic Studies	S	4
2019	Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	3
2017	Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential	World Bank Economic Review	B	2
2015	The Market for Training Services: A Demand Experiment with Bangladeshi Garment Factories	American Economic Review	S	3
2014	Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2014	Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka	Journal of Development Economics	A	3
2013	The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	3
2013	Deposit Collecting: Unbundling the Role of Frequency, Salience, and Habit Formation in Generating Savings	American Economic Review	S	3
2012	Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2011	Remittances and banking sector breadth and depth: Evidence from Mexico	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2010	Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises	American Economic Review	S	3
2009	Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?	Journal of Development Economics	A	3
2009	Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	3
2009	Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
2008	The Impact of Short-Term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Fincomun-Bimbo Program in Mexico	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	2
2008	Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
2008	Experimental Evidence on Returns to Capital and Access to Finance in Mexico	World Bank Economic Review	B	2
2007	The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	2
2007	Migration networks and microenterprises in Mexico	Journal of Development Economics	A	2
2006	Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	2
2002	Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Schooling: The Case of Mexico.	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	2
2002	Property Rights and Finance	American Economic Review	S	3
2002	Non-contractible investments and vertical integration in the Mexican footwear industry	International Journal of Industrial Organization	B	1
2000	Why do firms hide? Bribes and unofficial activity after communism	Journal of Public Economics	A	4
1999	Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
1998	Contract enforcement and trade liberalization in Mexico's footwear industry	World Development	B	1
1997	Formal Measures of the Informal-Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador, and Peru.	Economic Development & Cultural Change	B	3
1994	Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests, and International Trade Policy: Comment.	American Economic Review	S	2