Program in Applied Economics--Fellows' Work in Africa
Published on: Jun 16, 2006

The Program on Applied Economics supports several fellows doing research in or on Africa.

2004 Graduate Student Risk and Development Field Research Grant Recipients

  • Catherine Duggan

    Do MFIs use Informal Inter-Firm Relationships to Mitigate their Risks? Quantifying Lender Interactions and Multiple Borrowing in Uganda
  • Christopher Ksoll

    Family Networks, Inheritance and Orphans in Tanzania
  • Paulo Santos

    The Social Articulation of Risk Among East African Pastoralists
  • Pablo Suarez

    Reducing Climate Vulnerability for Development: Modeling Present Bias in Rural Zimbabwe and Periurban Argentina
  • Jackie Vanderpuye-Orgle

    Risk Management and Social Insurance - A Closer Look at Credit Transactions, Social Networks and Welfare in Ghana


2004 Post-Doctoral Risk and Development Field Research Grant Recipients

  • Harounan Kazianga

    Informal Insurance and Schooling Outcomes in Burkina Faso
  • Ted Miguel

    Experimental Evidence on Child Health and Long-Run Outcomes in Kenya
  • Jon Zinman

    Identifying the Impact of Credit Constraints on Household Well-Being in South Africa


2003 Risk and Development Field Research Grant Recipients:

  • Marc Bellemare

    Sharecropping and Reverse Tenancy in Madagascar
  • Christopher Blattman

    Experimental Evidence on Health and Migration in Rural Kenya: A Longitudinal Survey
  • Julie Silva

    Economic Liberalization's Effects on Inequality and Social Change: Regional and Local Dynamics in Mozambique
  • Zaki Wahhaj

    Testing a Theory of Limited Insurance Among Couples in Southern Ghana
 
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