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Ritwika Sen

  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Ritwika Sen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research lies at the intersection of organizational and development economics, with several ongoing projects in Uganda and Ethiopia. She has previously worked with the International Growth Centre in Uganda and the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources in Rwanda.    

Projects

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Bureaucrat-firm relationships and the success of labour market policy

Ritwika Sen, David Qihang Wu, Philipp Barteska 1 Sep 2026
Project
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Managers, motivation, and worker productivity: Evidence from survey enumerators in Uganda

Ritwika Sen 15 Jan 2024
Project
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Seeding innovation through reality TV

Chris Udry, Eliana La Ferrara, Ritwika Sen 15 Jun 2022
Project
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter 31 Mar 2022
Project

COVID-19 and the value of relationships in informal economies

Vittorio Bassi, Tugume Esau, Ritwika Sen, Tommaso Porzio 28 Feb 2021
Project

Quality upgrading and contract enforcement in Uganda's coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Ritwika Sen 30 Jun 2019
Project
Cityscape of downtown Kigali, the growing capital city of Rwanda. Photo credits: Edwin Remsberg / The Image Bank via Getty Images.

Responding to the US threat to remove AGOA preferences - Rwanda

Garth Frazer, Victor Steenbergen, Ritwika Sen
Project
Kenyan women selling 'mitumba', second hand clothes. Photo credit: Manu Davidson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Responding to the US threat to remove AGOA preferences - Uganda

Garth Frazer, Victor Steenbergen, Ritwika Sen
Project
Steelworkers at a factory in Jinja, Central Uganda. Photo credits: The Ethnographer via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Firm-level technology adoption and investment in training

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Tugume Esau, Ritwika Sen, Raffaela Muoio 30 Sep 2018
Project
Rubber processing. Photo credit: Atlantide Phototravel / The Image Bank Unreleased via Getty Images.

Reform of the EAC Common External Tariff

Ben Shepherd, Jaime de Melo, Ritwika Sen
Project
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Reviewing Uganda’s 2017 National Export Action Plan

Ritwika Sen, Richard Newfarmer
Project

All contributions

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Quality upgrading and quality incentives in Uganda's coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Ritwika Sen
Policy brief
Bassi et al. Working Paper September 2024

Self-employment within the firm

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Working paper
Sen Policy Brief August 2024

Supervisors nurture talent in organisations

Ritwika Sen
Policy brief
Sen Working Paper August 2024

Supervision at work: Evidence from a field experiment

Ritwika Sen
Working paper
Journal Article Cover Page

Achieving scale collectively

Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau Econometrica 90 6
Journal article
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Policy brief
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Recovery from the COVID-19 shock and the informal labour market in urban Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Jung Hyuk Lee, Alessandra Peter, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Project report
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The resilience of informal labour markets

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Project report

The resilience of informal labour markets: Insights from Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Blog
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The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on SMEs and employment relationships in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Policy brief
Photo credit: USAID in Africa, United States Government WorkUSAID in Africa, United States Government Work.

Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Joshua Mutambi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Policy brief
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Understanding productivity dispersion: Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi, Raffaela Muoio, Joshua Mutambi, Tommaso Porzio, Ritwika Sen, Tugume Esau
Project report
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Opportunities in Uganda’s Arabica value chain

Ameet Morjaria, Martin Sprott, Jenny Scharrer, Ritwika Sen
Policy brief
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Reform of the EAC Common External Tariff: Evidence from trade costs

Ben Shepherd, Jaime de Melo, Ritwika Sen
Working paper
Worker carries a large box destined for cargo shipping against a background of palm trees and stacked cargo.

WTO Aid for Trade - IGC side event

11–13 July 2017 Geneva, Switzerland
Past Event
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Agricultural transformation and urbanisation in Uganda

Douglas Gollin, Ritwika Sen
Policy brief

Maximising the impact of FDI on domestic industrial capabilities and job creation

Ritwika Sen, Sarah Logan
Policy brief

Workshop on trade, FDI and regional value chains in Uganda

12 December 2016 Protea Hotel, Kampala (Uganda)
Past Event