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Gharad Bryan

  • Associate Professor
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Roles

IGC Staff

Research programme directors

Researchers

Email

[email protected]

Gharad Bryan is a Research Programme Director for the IGC Cities research programme.

Bryan is a an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate of the STICERD Economic Organisation and Public Policy programme. His research interests include development economics, behavioural economics, and experimental economics.

Projects

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Addressing urban growth in risky areas

Gharad Bryan, Nick Tsivanidis, Emiliano Rinaldi 30 Sep 2026
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Trading trash and recyclables on tricycles

Yoshiki Wiskamp, Ignacio Banares Sanchez, Gharad Bryan 30 Jun 2026
Project
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Can soil testing unlock agricultural productivity gains?

Miguel Fajardo-Steinhäuser, Konrad Burchardi, Jonathan de Quidt, Gharad Bryan 31 Mar 2026
Project
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Trading trash: Waste markets for sustainable urban development

Gharad Bryan, Ignacio Banares Sanchez, Yoshiki Wiskamp, Ignacio Banares Sanchez 30 Jun 2025
Project
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Can shrimp farming unlock a sustainable future?

Gharad Bryan, Krittika Ray, Jack Thiemel 1 Jan 2025
Project
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Spatial vulnerabilities in Punjab

Gharad Bryan, Nick Tsivanidis, Muhammad Omar Masud, Hina Shaikh, Oliver Harman 30 Sep 2024
Project
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Land value capture and air rights: Evidence from Brazil

Gharad Bryan, Nick Tsivanidis, Caterina Soto-Vieira, Flavia Leite 31 Jul 2025
Project
The road from Kitwe, through the Copperbelt

Place-based economic development in Zambia's copperbelt

Gharad Bryan, Shahrukh Wani, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Neil Lee, Eric Werker, Benjamin Shawa
Project
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Managing climate migration: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Gharad Bryan, Robin Burgess 31 Dec 2023
Project

Effect of capacity in delivery of urban services

Gharad Bryan, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Adnan Khan, Ali Cheema 30 Nov 2018
Project

Cost effective panel data collection for Kampala

Gharad Bryan, Simon Franklin, Julia Bird, Astrid Haas
Project

Cost effective panel data collection

Julia Bird, Gharad Bryan, Simon Franklin, Astrid Haas 30 Sep 2018
Project

Randomised impact evaluation of farmer participatory innovative agricultural practices

Cátia Batista, Dean Karlan, Gharad Bryan 31 May 2017
Project

Evaluating the impacts of the Dar es Salaam Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system

Gharad Bryan, Bilal Siddiqi, Melanie Morten 30 Sep 2018
Project

Understanding the efficiency effects of a credit bureau: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Aban Haq, Gharad Bryan, Jonathan de Quidt, Greg Fischer
Project

Encouraging seasonal migration to mitigate the consequences of a seasonal famine in rural Bangladesh

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Shyamal Chowdhury, Gharad Bryan, Jashim Uddin Ahmed 1 Jan 2014
Project

All contributions

Bryan and Burgess Policy Brief September 2024

Climate pessimists, adaptation optimists: Evidence on climate beliefs from a representative sample of Bangladeshis

Gharad Bryan, Robin Burgess
Policy brief
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IGC Evidence Paper - Cities

Gharad Bryan, Edward L. Glaeser, Nick Tsivanidis
Synthesis paper
A landscape image of Zambia, featuring a blue sky and clouds, mountains, desert and grass.

Unlocking economic prosperity in the Zambian Copperbelt

Niels Mulder, Gharad Bryan, Neil Lee, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Benjamin Shawa, Shahrukh Wani, Eric Werker
Synthesis paper
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New frontiers in urban economics research for developing countries

Gilles Duranton, Gharad Bryan, Victoria Delbridge
Video
busy street in Dhaka. people riding tuk-tuks. Photo taken by Francisco Anzola

New frontiers in urban economics research for developing countries

21 September 2023 15:00-16:00
Past Webinar

Addressing the sustainable urbanisation challenge in developing countries

22 September 2022 Zoom
Past Event
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State capacity in Punjab’s local governments: Benchmarking existing deficits

Gharad Bryan, Ali Cheema, Ameera Jamal, Asad Liaqat, Gerard Padró i Miquel
Project report

Lessons learned from a scale-up of a seasonal migration RCT in Bangladesh

Gharad Bryan, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Reimão, Ashish Shenoy
Policy brief
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Encouraging seasonal migration to mitigate the consequences of a seasonal famine in rural Bangladesh

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Shyamal Chowdhury, Gharad Bryan, Jashim Uddin Ahmed 1 Mar 2019
Data set
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No Lean Season 2017 summary of results

Gharad Bryan, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Reimão, Ashish Shenoy
Working paper

Uganda High-Level Economic Growth Forum

14–15 September 2017 Munyonyo, Uganda
Past Event

Sharing once hidden information: Credit bureaus, MFIs, and client welfare

Gharad Bryan, Greg Fischer, Jonathan de Quidt, Ali Akbar
Blog

IGC Cities Conference

28–29 January 2016 London, UK
Past Event
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Africa Growth Forum 2015: Gharad Bryan

Gharad Bryan
Audio
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IGC cities research group 2015: Gharad Bryan

Gharad Bryan
Video

Encouraging seasonal migration to mitigate the consequences of a seasonal famine in rural Bangladesh (Policy Brief)

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Shyamal Chowdhury, Jashim Uddin Ahmed, Gharad Bryan
Policy brief
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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh (Working Paper)

Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Working paper