Published and Forthcoming Papers
Dillon, Brian, Jenny Aker, and Joshua Blumenstock (2024). "Yellow Pages: Information, Connections, and Firm Performance." Forthcoming, Economic Journal.
Dillon, Brian, and Travis Lybbert (2024). "The Gambler's Fallacy Prevails in Lottery Play." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 69(1): 33-56.
Aker, Jenny C., Brian Dillon and C. Jamilah Welch (2023). "Demand, Supply and Long-Term Adoption: Evidence from a Storage Technology in West Africa." Journal of Development Economics 165: 103-129.
Ragunath, Ananditha, Laurel Krovetz, Hosea Mpogole, Henry Mulisa, Brian Dillon, Richard Anderson (2023). "From Grasshoppers to Secondhand Cars: Understanding the Smartphone-Enabled Marketplace in Peri-urban Tanzania." Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 1-13.
Rakotonarivo, O. S., Bell, A., Dillon, B., Duthie, A. B., Kipchumba, A., Rasolofoson, R. A., Razafimanahaka, J., & Bunnefeld, N. (2021). “Experimental evidence on the impact of payments and property rights on forest user decisions." Frontiers in Conservation Science 2, 33. [Link is open access]
Dillon, Brian (2020). “Selling Crops Early to Pay for School: A Large-scale Natural Experiment in Malawi.” Journal of Human Resources 56(4): 1296-1325. [Working paper version] [Replication page]
Dillon, Brian, Joachim De Weerdt, and Ted O’Donoghue (2020). “Paying More for Less: Why Don’t Households in Tanzania Take Advantage of Bulk Discounts?" World Bank Economic Review 35(1): 148-179. [Working paper version]
Dillon, Brian, Peter Brummund, and Germano Mwabu (2019). “Asymmetric Non-separation and Rural Labor Markets.” Journal of Development Economics (139): 78-96. [Working paper version] [Replication page]
Dillon, Brian and Alessandra Voena (2018). “Widows' Land Rights and Agricultural Investment." Journal of Development Economics (135): 449-460. [Working paper version]
Weld, Galen, Trevor Perrier, Jenny Aker, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Dillon, Adalbertus Kamanzi, Editha Kokushubira, Jennifer Webster, and Richard Anderson (2018). “eKichabi: Information Access through Basic Mobile Phones in Rural Tanzania.” CHI 2018 Conference Proceedings. [Link is open access]
Christian, Paul J and Brian Dillon (2018). “Growing and Learning when Consumption is Seasonal: Long-term Evidence from Tanzania.” Demography (2018)55: 1091-1118. [Link is open access]
Dillon, Brian and Chelsey Dambro (2017). “How Competitive are Crop Markets in sub-Saharan Africa?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 99(5): 1344-1361. [Link is open access]
Dillon, Brian and Chris B. Barrett (2017). “Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure.” Food Policy 67: 64-77. [Working paper version]
Dillon, Brian and Chris B. Barrett (2016). "Global Oil Prices and Local Food Prices: Evidence from East Africa." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(1): 154-171. [Working paper version]
Dillon, Brian (2012). "Using Mobile Phones to Collect Panel Data in Developing Countries." Journal of International Development 24(4): 518-527. [Link is open access]