Marcel Fafchamps
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Professor of Development Economics, Director of Graduate Studies
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.
Courses Taught at the University
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Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Political Violence and Social Networks: Experimental Evidence from a Nigerian Election ()
- Bridging the gender divide: An experimental analysis of group formation in African villages (2009)
- Taboos, agriculture and poverty (2009)
- Testing Unilateral and Bilateral Link Formation (2009)
- Household Separation and Child Well-Being (2009)
- Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Agricultural Development (2009)
- Referral and Job Performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army (2009)
- Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination (2009)
- Risk Sharing Relations and Enforcement Mechanisms (2008)
- Subjective well-being, disability and adaptation: A case study from rural Ethiopia (2008)
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