2025
Van Campenhout, B., Nabwire, L. (2025). Buyer-side gender discrimination in bargaining: Evidence from seed sales in Uganda. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 119, 102404.
Miehe, C., Van Campenhout, B., Nabwire, L., Sparrow, R., Spielman, D.J. (2025). Miracle seeds: Biased expectations, complementary input use, and the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 74:1, 305-334 .
2024
Hidrobo, M., Kosec, K., Gartaula, H.N., Van Campenhout, B., Carrillo, L. (2024). Making complementary agricultural resources, technologies, and services more gender-responsive. Global Food Security, 42, 100778.
De, A., Miehe, C., Van Campenhout, B. (2024). Gender bias in consumer perceptions: The case of agro-input dealers in Uganda. Agricultural Systems, 217, 103954.
2023
Mogues, T., Van Campenhout, B., Miehe, C., Kabunga, N. (2023). The impact of community-based monitoring on public service delivery: A randomized control trial in Uganda. World Development, 172, 106374.
Farnworth, C.R., Lecoutere, E., Galiè, A., Van Campenhout, B., et al. (2023). Methodologies for Researching Feminization of Agriculture: What Do They Tell Us? Progress in Development Studies, 23(3), 294–316.
Lecoutere, E., Spielman, D., Van Campenhout, B. (2023). Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda. World Development, 167, 106240.
Lecoutere, E., Van Campenhout, B. (2023). Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households. Feminist Economics, 29(1), 266–297.
Van Campenhout, B., Lecoutere, E., Spielman, D.J. (2023). Hiding or Pleasing: Spousal Disagreement Among Ugandan Maize Farmers. The Journal of Development Studies, 53(1), 39–57.
Van Campenhout, B., De, A. (2023). Gendered Perceptions in Maize Supply Chains: Evidence from Uganda. Development Policy Review, 41(2), e12662.
Bagamba, F., Ntakyo, P.R., Otim, G., Spielman, D.J., Van Campenhout, B. (2023). Policy and performance in Uganda’s seed sector: Opportunities and challenges. Development Policy Review, 41(3), e12665.
2022
Van Campenhout, B. (2022). ICTs to address information inefficiencies in food supply chains. Agricultural Economics, 53(6), 968–975.
Ignowski, L., Minten, B., Van Campenhout, B., Vandevelde, S. (2022). Trade, Value Chain Technology and Prices: Evidence from Dairy in East Africa. Q Open, qoac016.
2021
Spielman, D., Lecoutere, E., Makhija, S., Van Campenhout, B. (2021). ICTs and Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 13(1), 177–201.
Vandevelde, S., Van Campenhout, B., Walukano, W. (2021). Accounting for spillovers in assessing the effectiveness of video messages to improve potato seed quality: Evidence from Uganda. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 27(4), 503–534.
Van Campenhout, B., Minten, B., Swinnen, J. (2021). Leading the way – foreign direct investment and dairy value chain upgrading in Uganda. Agricultural Economics, 52(5), 607–631.
Van Campenhout, B. (2021). The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 69(3), 1239–1272.
Van Campenhout, B., Spielman, D.J., Lecoutere, E. (2021). Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(1), 317–337.
2020–2016
Marivoet, W., Becquey, E., Van Campenhout, B. (2019). How well does the Food Consumption Score capture diet quantity, quality and adequacy across regions in the DRC? Food Security, 11(5), 1029–1049.
Van Campenhout, B., Bizimungu, E., Smart, J., Kabunga, N. (2018). Impact pathways of a participatory local governance initiative in Uganda – A qualitative exploration. Development in Practice, 28(8), 1046–1056 - working paper version can be found here.
Van Campenhout, B., Pauw, K., Minot, N. (2018). The impact of food price shocks in Uganda: first-order effects versus general-equilibrium consequences. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 45(5), 783–807 - working paper version can be found here.
Van Campenhout, B., Bizimungu, E. (2018). Risk and Returns of Sustainable Crop Intensification: The Case of Smallholder Rice and Potato Farmers in Uganda. Development Policy Review, 36, O605–O633.
Van Campenhout, B., Vandevelde, S., Walukano, W., Van Asten, P. (2017). Agricultural Extension Messages Using Video on Portable Devices Increased Knowledge about Seed Selection, Storage and Handling among Smallholder Potato Farmers in Southwestern Uganda. PLoS One, 12(1), e0169557.
Van Campenhout, B. (2017). There’s an App for that? The Impact of Community Knowledge Workers in Uganda. Information, Communication & Society, 20(4), 530–550.
Van Campenhout, B. (2016). Fertility, Agricultural Labor Supply and Production: Instrumental Variable Evidence from Uganda. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 45(3), 581–607.
2015–2011
Cassimon, D., Van Campenhout, B., Ferry, M., Raffinot, M. (2015). Africa: Out of debt, into fiscal space? International Economics, 144, 29–52. see also this coverage in The Economist.
Lecoutere, E., D’Exelle, B., Van Campenhout, B. (2015). Sharing Common Resources in Patriarchal and Status-based Societies: Evidence from Tanzania. Feminist Economics, 21(3), 142–167. - see also this coverage in The Economist.
Van Campenhout, B., Lecoutere, E., D'Exelle, B. (2015). Inter-temporal and Spatial Price Dispersion Patterns and the Well-being of Maize Producers in Southern Tanzania. Journal of African Economies, 24(2), 230–253.
Van Campenhout, B., D'Exelle, B., Lecoutere, E. (2015). Equity-Efficiency Optimizing Resource Allocation: The Role of Time Preferences in a Repeated Irrigation Game. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 77(2), 234–253.
D’Exelle, B., Lecoutere, E., Van Campenhout, B. (2012). Equity-efficiency Trade-offs in Irrigation Water Sharing: Evidence from a Field Lab in Rural Tanzania. World Development, 40(12), 2537–2551.
D'Exelle, B., Van Campenhout, B., Lecoutere, E. (2012). What Determines Impatience in Tanzania: Is it Poverty or Modernization? Journal of Development Studies, 48(4), 579–598.
Van Campenhout, B., Cassimon, D. (2012). Multiple equilibria in the dynamics of financial globalization: The role of institutions. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 22(2), 329–342.
2010–2006
Claessens, S., Cassimon, D., Van Campenhout, B. (2009). Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria. World Bank Economic Review, 23(2), 185–208.
Cassimon, D., Van Campenhout, B. (2008). Comparative Fiscal Effects of Debt Relief: an Application to African HIPCs. South African Journal of Economics, 76(3), 427–442.
Mulenga, S., Van Campenhout, B. (2008). Decomposing Poverty Changes in Zambia: Growth, Inequality and Population Dynamics. African Development Review, 20(2), 284–304.
Van Campenhout, B. (2007). Modelling trends in food market integration: Method and an application to Tanzanian maize markets. Food Policy, 32(1), 112–127.
Van Campenhout, B. (2007). Locally Adapted Poverty Indicators Derived from Participatory Wealth Rankings: A Case of Four Villages in Rural Tanzania. Journal of African Economies, 16(3), 406–438.
Cassimon, D., Van Campenhout, B. (2007). Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance Response: Evidence from a Panel of HIPCs. Review of World Economics, 143(4), 742–763.
2025
Van Campenhout, B., Abate, G.T., Colen, L., & Kramer, B. (2025). Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2369.
Van Campenhout, B., Nabwire, L., Kramer, B., Trachtman, C., & Abate, G.T. (2025). Production and consumption traits and the adoption of improved maize varieties: Evidence from seed sample packs and cooking demonstrations. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2331.
Ariong, R., Chamberlin, J., Kariuki, S.W., & Van Campenhout, B. (2025). “Accelerating quality upgrading in Ugandan dairy value chains-Preliminary results from a value chain experiment”, Rethinking Food Markets Technical Report.
2024
Ariong, R., Chamberlin, J., Kariuki, S.W., & Van Campenhout, B. (2024). “Quality upgrading in dairy value chains: Mixed methods evidence from southwestern Uganda”, IFPRI Discussion Paper 2264.
2023
Miehe, C., Sparrow, R., Spielman, D., & Van Campenhout, B. (2023). The (perceived) quality of agricultural technology and its adoption: Experimental evidence from Uganda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2918.
2022
Nabwire, L., Van Campenhout, B., Minot, N., Kabir, R., Vos, R., Narayanan, S., Rice, B., & Aredo, S.D. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on food value chains in Uganda: Results of surveys of farmers, traders, and processors. IFPRI Working Paper.
2021
Van Campenhout, B., Kabunga, N., Mogues, T., & Miehe, C. (2021). Community advocacy forums and public service delivery in Uganda: Impact and the role of information, deliberation and administrative placement. 3ie Impact Evaluation Report 136, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie).
2020–2016
Van Campenhout, B., Nabwire, L., Minten, B., & Ariong, R.M. (2020). Institutional and technological innovations to foster agro-industrialization in Uganda: Insights from the dairy value chain. IFPRI Policy Note.
Van Campenhout, B., Nabwire, L., Walukano, W., Kabunga, N., Bizimungu, E., & Smart, J. (2019). Pathways to strengthen the quality of public service delivery in Uganda: Barazas as citizen advocacy forums. Baraza Project Policy Note 01.
Van Campenhout, B., Nattembo, F., & Pauw, K. (2018). Evaluating the shifting priorities of Uganda’s agricultural extension services: A micro perspective. USSP Policy Note 21, IFPRI.
Nazziwa-Nviiri, L., Van Campenhout, B., & Amwonya, D. (2017). Stimulating Agricultural Technology Adoption – Lessons from Fertilizer Use among Ugandan Potato Farmers. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01608.
Van Campenhout, B., Walukano, W., & Van Asten, P. (2016). Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Rice Growing in Eastern Uganda. Uganda Strategy Support Program Policy Note 20, IFPRI.
Kabunga, N., Mogues, T., Bizimungu, E., Erman, A., & Van Campenhout, B. (2016). The state of public service delivery in Uganda: Report of a baseline survey. IFPRI/3ie/OPM.
Van Campenhout, B. (2016). How does credit affect yields? Lessons from potato and rice farmers in Uganda. Uganda Strategy Support Program Policy Note 18, IFPRI.
2015-2011
Van Campenhout, B. (2015). The dynamics of smallholder marketing behavior: Explorations using Ugandan and Mozambican panel data. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1478.
Van Campenhout, B. (2012). Market integration in Mozambique: A non-parametric extension to the threshold model. MozSSP Working Paper 4, IFPRI.
Van Campenhout, B., & Dercon, S. (2012). Nonlinear dynamics of livestock assets: Evidence from Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1215.
Mkenda, B.K., & Van Campenhout, B. (2011). Estimating transaction costs in Tanzanian supply chains. International Growth Centre Working Paper 11/0898.
2010-2006
Lecoutere, E., D’Exelle, B., & Van Campenhout, B. (2010). Who engages in water scarcity conflicts? A field experiment with irrigators in semi-arid Africa. MICROCON Research Working Paper 31, University of Sussex.
2025
Miehe, C., Sparrow, R., Spielman, D., Van Campenhout, B. & Nabwire, L. (2025). How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds. VoxDev.
2024
Ariong, R., Van Campenhout, B., Kariuki S.W. & Chamberlin, J. (2024). Enhancing milk quality in Uganda: Challenges and innovations in the dairy value chain. IFPRI Research Blog.
De Weerdt, J., Dillon, B., Hami, E., Van Campenhout, B. & Nabwire, L. (2024). Behavioral explanations for the sell-low-buy-high puzzle in smallholder market participation: Lessons from a field experiment in Malawi. IFPRI Research Blog.
Van Campenhout, B. & Nabwire, L. (2024). Gender bias in bargaining: Lessons from haggling over the price of seed in rural Uganda. IFPRI Research Blog.
2023
Miehe, C., Sparrow, R., Spielman, D., Van Campenhout, B. & Nabwire, L. (2023). ‘Miracle seeds,’ informational curses? The risk of high expectations for new agricultural technologies. IFPRI Research Blog.
De, A., Miehe, C. & Van Campenhout, B. This is a man’s world: Gendered perceptions of Ugandan agro-input dealers. IFPRI Research Blog.
Ariong, R., Kariuki S.W., Chamberlin, J. & Van Campenhout, B. (2024) Measuring the extent of a risky practice: Using toxic chemicals on cattle for tick control in Uganda. IFPRI Research Blog.
2022
Van Campenhout, B., Miehe, C., Spielman, D., & Sparrow, R. (2022). What changed when Ugandan farmers rated input quality and local vendor services? The Conversation.
2021
Van Campenhout, B., Miehe, C. (2021). Does bottom-up monitoring improve public services? What we found in Uganda. The Conversation.
2020- 2016
Van Campenhout, B., Lecoutere, E., & Spielman, D.J. (2020). Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda. VoxDev.
Van Campenhout, B. (2017). Designing gender sensitive agricultural extension information campaigns. IFPRI Research Blog.
Van Campenhout, B. (2017). How video can improve agricultural practices in Uganda. IFPRI Research Blog.
2015-2011
Van Campenhout, B. (2016). Addressing knowledge gaps in rice growing in eastern Uganda: Short videos can improve awareness of crop intensification techniques. IFPRI Research Blog.