academic position
Associate Professor (untenured), Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
other affiliations
Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
CEPR Industrial Organization & Development Economics Program
International Growth Center (IGC)
Center for the Study of Industrial Organizations, Northwestern University (CSIO NU)
Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Northwestern University
Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL), Northwestern University
contact details
fields Economic Development, Organizational Economics, Political Economy of Developing Countries
research
publications
joint with Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel and Gerard Padro i Miquel
American Economic Review, June 2015
Media coverage: KelloggInsight; voxeu.org; chrisblattman.com; AEA Research Highlight
joint with Rocco Macchiavello
American Economic Review, September 2015
working papers
joint with Rocco Macchiavello
Status: 2nd round revision requested, July 2020
Media coverage: National Agricultural Export Board Rwanda; The East African; The New Times
Policy Notes: IGC
joint with Christopher Ksoll and Rocco Macchiavello
Status: Revision requested at Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2012
Policy Notes: iiG
Product Conflation and Market Design: Evidence from Ethiopia's Commodity Exchange
Status: Draft paper, Oct 2020
Presentations: MIT Organizational Economics lunch, Yale Mini-Kuznets Conference 2020, 6th Workshop on Relational Contracts
Entry, Growth, and Exit in Ethiopia's New Industry
Status: Draft paper, February 2020
Presentations: NBER Africa 2019, Northwestern University
Status: Working paper, November 2018
work in progress
Governance in Agricultural Supply Chains: Evidence from Rwanda and
joint with Barron Talamas
Status: fieldwork completed
Funding: Gate and Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship
Quality Upgrading and Pass-Through in Uganda's Coffee Sector
joint with Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist and Yulu Tang
Status: pilots ongoing
Funding: PEDL, ATAI/MITx2, IGCx2, Weiss, and Milton