Leopold Remi Sarr
Biographic Data
| ID | 6456899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leopold Remi Sarr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leopold Remi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarr |
| SIGNATURE | SARR L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh
We use matched employer-employee data representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive skills and personality traits in this part of the labour market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage…
Measuring willingness to pay for reliable electricity: Evidence from Senegal
Low-quality electricity service constitutes a significant obstacle in achieving sustainable development. Governments in low-income countries and donors are increasingly seeking to invest in improving electricity service quality and reliability. Understanding households’ and firms’ willingness to pay (WTP) for quality improvements is key to designing investments in the electricity sector. In this paper, we provide new evidence on WTP for service q…
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
Financial Education and Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment among Low-Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India
Financial literacy programs are popular, despite limited evidence that they lead to significant changes in savings behavior. We experimentally test the impact of financial literacy training on clients of a branchless banking program that offers doorstep access to banking to low-income households. The intervention had significant impacts: total savings in the treatment group increased by 49% ($39) within a period of 1 year. The increase in savings…
Measuring willingness to pay for reliable electricity: Evidence from Senegal
Low-quality electricity service constitutes a significant obstacle in achieving sustainable development. Governments in low-income countries and donors are increasingly seeking to invest in improving electricity service quality and reliability. Understanding households’ and firms’ willingness to pay (WTP) for quality improvements is key to designing investments in the electricity sector. In this paper, we provide new evidence on WTP for service q…
Financial Education and Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment among Low-Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India
Financial literacy programs are popular, despite limited evidence that they lead to significant changes in savings behavior. We experimentally test the impact of financial literacy training on clients of a branchless banking program that offers doorstep access to banking to low-income households. The intervention had significant impacts: total savings in the treatment group increased by 49% ($39) within a period of 1 year. The increase in savings…
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
Financial Education and Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment among Low-Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India
Financial literacy programs are popular, despite limited evidence that they lead to significant changes in savings behavior. We experimentally test the impact of financial literacy training on clients of a branchless banking program that offers doorstep access to banking to low-income households. The intervention had significant impacts: total savings in the treatment group increased by 49% ($39) within a period of 1 year. The increase in savings…
Measuring willingness to pay for reliable electricity: Evidence from Senegal
Low-quality electricity service constitutes a significant obstacle in achieving sustainable development. Governments in low-income countries and donors are increasingly seeking to invest in improving electricity service quality and reliability. Understanding households’ and firms’ willingness to pay (WTP) for quality improvements is key to designing investments in the electricity sector. In this paper, we provide new evidence on WTP for service q…
Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh
We use matched employer-employee data representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive skills and personality traits in this part of the labour market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Attribution (2 works) · Big Five personality traits (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Cognitive skill (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works)