Professor Chris Blattman Finds Low-Paying Factory Jobs Improve Worker Outcomes More than Expected

Harris Public Policy Professor Chris Blattman is featured in Quartz to discuss low-paying factory jobs in developing countries. “All our funding proposals before the study suggested that we expected the sweatshops to pay higher and more steady wages than people’s bad alternatives in the informal sector,” wrote Blattman. “But in this case I was wrong.”

Full coverage is available at Quartz.