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Smit Gade

Good Business Lab
gade@goodbusinesslab.org

Smit Gade is Data and Research Manager at Good Business Lab (GBL) where he looks after research design and field implementation. He currently works on research projects related to Female labour force participation, Skilling, and Labour productivity.

Prior to GBL, he worked as a Research Associate at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab(J-PAL) working on Early Childhood Development projects with the Government of Rajasthan and the Government of Tamil Nadu.

His research interests also include Child Malnutrition, Economics of Corruption, and Political Economy. He holds M.Phil. Economics from Oxford University.

Posts by Smit Gade

Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice

Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...

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Role of private sector in the holistic skilling of India’s workforce

Low skill levels of workers are a key reason for low labour productivity in developing countries. In this article, Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that centres around two important questions in this...

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