Episode 37: Michela Giorcelli on Management Training Programmes

Michela Giorcelli is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles

The paper discussed in this episode is “The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program”, by Nicola Bianchi and Michela Giorcelli.

Other papers mentioned in this episode are:

Alfaro-Urena, Alonso, Isabela Manelici, and Jose P. Vasquez. 2019. “The Effects of Multinationals on Workers: Evidence from Costa Rica.” working paper, UC Berkeley.

Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, and John Roberts. 2013. “Does Management Matter? Evidence from India.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(1): 1–51.

Bruhn, Miriam, Dean Karlan, and Antoinette Schoar. 2010. “What Capital is Missing in Developing Countries?” The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 100(2): 629–633.

Iacovone, Leonardo, William Maloney, and David J. McKenzie. 2021. “Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia.” Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

McKenzie, David J. and Christopher Woodruff. 2014. “What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?” World Bank Research Observer, 29(1): 48–82.

Womack, James, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos. 1990. The Machine That Changed the World. New York: Simon and Schuster.