- Development Economics
- Econometrics
- Trade
- Political Economy
Job Market Paper
"Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders in Kenya"
Coverage: World Bank Development Impact Blog
Publications
"Corruption, gender, and small-scale cross-border trade in East Africa: A review", (2021), with Jacqueline M. Klopp and Melissa Trimble. Development Policy Review, 40(5).
Coverage: ODI blog
Completed Working Papers
"Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture", (2022) with Manzoor H. Dar, Kyle Emerick, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Revise and Resubmitted, AEJ Applied.
Coverage: Vox Dev
"Poisoned by Policy: The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Political Participation", (2022), with Kate Pennington. Submitted.
"Inter-dependencies between Formal and Informal Trade: Border Restrictions and Corruption in Kenya", (2021).
Previously circulated as: "Trade, Informality and Corruption: Evidence from Small-scale Traders in Kenya"
Coverage: IGC Blog
“Should Voters be Allowed to Register Anywhere: Evidence from Kenya”, (2017), with Tavneet Suri and Rahul Deb.
Paper upon request
Previously circulated as: "Do People Register and Vote Strategically: Evidence from the 2013 Kenyan Election"
Work in Progress
"The Effect of Cash Transfers and Village Savings Groups on Youth", with Jeremy Magruder and Ben Krause.
[Data Collection & Data Analysis completed]
Abstract
"Bargaining for a Bribe: an Audit Study with Traders".
[Data Collection & Data Analysis completed, Draft in progress]
Abstract
“Diffusion Mechanism in Technology Adoption: how do Entry Points Matter?”, with Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry.
[Data Collection & Data Analysis completed, Draft in progress]
Abstract
"Market Integration, Contracts and Value Chain in Agriculture Trade: winners and losers".
[Data Collection completed]
"You Leave, You Lose: the Value of Stall Placement in Kenyan markets".
[Data Collection completed]
- Yale University, MA in International and Development Economics, 2012 (Honors)
- Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, BA in Engineering, Economics and Management, 2011 (Magna Cum Laude)
- University of Cambridge, BA in Economics, 2010
Awards
WEAI Graduate Student Workshop Fellow (2021)
Sidney Hoos prize for best econometrics research paper (2017)
Fellowships
ARE Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, 2022
ARE Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, 2020
ARE Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, 2018
U.C. Berkeley Fellowship, 2015-2016
Research Grants
J-Pal ATAI Grant ($263,100)
CEGA Development Challenge ($10,000)
J-Pal Governance Initiative Grant ($120,000)
J-Pal Governance Initiative Pilot Grant ($49, 100)
ARE Travel Grant ($2,000)
Levin Family Seed Grant ($2,000)
- Statistics, Masters in Development Practice - Instructor - UC Berkeley (Summer 2022)
- STEG Macro Development Course - Teaching Assistant for Lauren Falcao Bergquist (Spring 2021)
- Statistics, Masters in Development Practice - Instructor - UC Berkeley (Summer 2021)
- Statistics, Masters in Development Practice - Instructor - UC Berkeley (Summer 2020)
- Econometrics, PhD level - Teaching Assistant for Michael Anderson - UC Berkeley (Fall 2019)
- Statistics, Masters in Development Practice - Instructor - UC Berkeley (Summer 2018) (created course content)
Jeremy Magruder
Professor, Agriculture & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: jmagruder@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510)-642-7162Elisabeth Sadoulet
Professor, Agriculture & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: esadoulet@berkeley.eduEdward Miguel
Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: emiguel@berkeley.eduTavneet Suri
Associate Professor, Sloan School, MIT
Email: tavneet@mit.edu
Phone: (617)-253-7159
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Email: ewiseman@berkeley.edu
Phone: (978) 304-6023
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472
Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-409-4341
Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345
