The Jedi path to formal economy
Untangling the causal effects of development on informality in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21542006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fayssal Ayad (0000-0003-0446-0453) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 3251-3291 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Empirical Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-7332 • E-ISSN: 1435-8921 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00181-025-02812-2 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 124 |
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Causality
The Informal Economy Revisited
Estimating long-run relationships from dynamic heterogeneous panels
Valid t -ratio Inference for IV
Making Sense of Sensitivity
Instrumental Variables and GMM
Natural “Natural Experiments” in Economics
Optimal bandwidth choice for robust bias-corrected inference in regression discontinuity designs
Rdrobust
Optimal Data-Driven Regression Discontinuity Plots
Quantiles via moments
Common correlated effects estimation of heterogeneous dynamic panel data models with weakly exogenous regressors
Firms, Informality, and Development
Inference with Arbitrary Clustering
New Estimates for the Shadow Economies all over the World
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?
Machine Learning Methods That Economists Should Know About
Estimation of the Parameters of a Single Equation in a Complete System of Stochastic Equations
Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests
Double/debiased machine learning for treatment and structural parameters
Dodging the grabbing hand
Geography and Economic Development
Informality
What Motivates Tax Compliance?
Cluster-robust inference
Generalized random forests
Estimating Treatment Effects with Causal Forests
The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data
Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
Informality
An Exploration into the Nature of Informal—Formal Sector Relationships
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Diffusion Indexes
Plausibly Exogenous
Fifty shades of sustainable development
Is informality a barrier to sustainable development
The urban informal sector
Informal sector or petty commodity production
Introduction - the urban informal sector
The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle-income countries
Informal versus Formal
A theoretical analysis of the informal sector
Strict duality and overlapping productivity distributions between formal and informal firms
Lurking in the shadows
Modelling the informal sector formally
Corruption and the shadow economy
How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix, and What to Do About It
Interpreting African Underdevelopment
Informality Revisited
The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes
Informality and Development
The Informal Sector
A critical evaluation of competing representations of the relationship between formal and informal work
Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |