Peer referrals are a common strategy for addressing asymmetric information in contexts such as the labor market. They could be especially valuable for increasing testing and treatment of infectious diseases, where peers may have advantages over health workers in both identifying new patients and...

Peer referrals are a common strategy for addressing asymmetric information in contexts such as the labor market. They could be especially valuable for increasing testing and treatment of infectious diseases, where peers may have advantages over health workers in both identifying new patients and...

Online platform businesses have thrived and created enormous economic value in recent decades. However, disintermediation, which occurs when platform users bypass the platform to complete transactions directly, has become the Achilles’ heel of the platform business model, hurting platforms'...

This paper examines a business support intervention in which international professionals from different functional backgrounds (e.g., marketing, consulting) volunteered their time to help Ugandan entrepreneurs improve performance. Findings from a multi-year field experiment show that...