Marcel Fafchamps
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Professor of Development Economics
College or Institution: Mansfield College
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Research Interests
Summary: Development economics. Risk coping mechanis Market Institutions. Intrahousehold allocation.
My research interests revolve around risk-coping strategies, market institutions, intrahousehold allocation, and the allocation of economic activity across space. I see these topics as closely related because they all have to do with the institutions enabling exchange. Institutional issues resonate with my legal training. Spatial networks and social networks are also related from a methodological point of view. All my research is concentrated on poor countries, mostly in Africa and South Asia. My most recent papers include work on crime, on social networks, and on spatial welfare.
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Recent Working Papers
- Political Violence and Social Networks: Experimental Evidence from a Nigerian Election ()
- Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda (2011)
- Education, Preferences, and Household Welfare (2011)
- When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana (2011)
- Network Proximity and Business Practices in African Manufacturing (2011)
- Local Financial Development and Firm Performance: Evidence from Morocco (2011)
- Are Gifts and Loans between Households Voluntary? (2010)
- The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of a quasi-experiment (2010)
- Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels (2010)
- Bridging the gender divide: An experimental analysis of group formation in African villages (2009)
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