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Maarten Voors is an Associate Professor at the Development Economics Group (DEC), Wageningen University. I received my PhD from Wageningen University in 2011 (with honors) and was an Isaac Newton Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge 2011-2013.

My main field is development economics. My research focuses on institutions, development and behavior and I use a variety of methods including surveys, lab and field experiments and econometric analysis. I have conducted field research in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, DRC and elsewhere. Recent projects focus on health access, institutional change, rural electrification and efforts to prevent deforestation.

I am a member of the Wageningen Young Academy, and Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP), the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, Network of Development Economists in the Netherlands, European Development Research Network and a Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).