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Maarten Voors is a 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 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) and JPAL.