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Jamie McCasland

  • PhD candidate
  • University of California - Berkeley

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Jamie McCasland is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research is in development economics, with a focus on labor markets and firms. She will be joining the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Fall 2015.

Projects

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National apprenticeship programme evaluation: Ten-year follow-up

Jamie McCasland 31 Aug 2024
Project
Young men burning electrical wires to recover copper at Agbogbloshie, September 2019. Photo credit: Muntaka Chasant via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Do apprentices alleviate firms’ labour constraints? Evidence from a unique experiment in Ghana

Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland
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Are small firms labor constrained? Experimental evidence from Ghana

Morgan Hardy, Jamie McCasland American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15 2
Journal article
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The apprenticeship-to-work transition: Experimental evidence from Ghana

Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, Isabelle Salcher
Working paper
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Do apprentices alleviate firms’ labour constraints? Evidence from a unique experiment in Ghana

Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland
Project report
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Vocational Education in Kenya (Policy Brief)

Joan Hamory Hicks, Jonas Hjort, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, Edward Miguel
Policy brief

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