2024
Mesfin H., Cecchi F., 2024. "Cash Transfers and Social Capital: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi," Forthcoming in Journal of African Economies.
Cecchi F., Lensink R., Slingerland E., 2024 "Ambiguity attitudes and demand for weather index insurance with and without a credit bundle: experimental evidence from Kenya," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 100885.
2023
Cecchi F., Voermans E. L., Lensink R., 2023. "The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia," Economic Development and Cultural Change 72(1).
Mesfin H., Cecchi F., Nillesen E., Tirivayi N., 2023. "Overconfidence, Trust, and Information-seeking among Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," Economic Development and Cultural Change 72(1).
2022
Cecchi F., Garcia A., Lensink R., Wydick B., 2022. "Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia," World Development 160, 106087.
Mesfin H., Cecchi F., Nillesen E., Tirivayi N., 2022. "The effect of siblings’ sex ratio on physical capital, human capital, and gendered time use among adolescents in Ethiopia," Economics & Human Biology 47, 101182.
Garcia A., Cecchi F., Eriksen S., Lensink R., 2021. "The plus in credit-plus-technical assistance: Evidence from a rural microcredit programme in Bolivia," The Journal of Development Studies 58 (2), 275-291.
2021
Cecchi F., Koster T., Lensink R., 2021. "Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab-in-the field experiment in Bolivia," Forthcoming in Review of Development Economics 25 (4), 2013-2030.
Cieslik K., Cecchi F., Damtew E., Gobena, S. T., Struik P., Lemaga B. and Leeuwis C., 2021. "The Role of ICT in Collective Management of Public Bads: The Case of Potato Late Blight in Ethiopia," World Development 140, 105366.
Damtew E., Leeuwis C., Struik P. C., Cecchi F., van Mierlo B., Lie R., Lemaga B. and Cieslik K., 2021. "Communicative Interventions for Collective Action in the Management of Potato Late Blight: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment in Ethiopia," Food Security 13, 255-271.
2020
Bulte E., Cecchi F., Lensink R., Marr A. and van Asseldonk M., 2020. "Does Bundling Crop Insurance with Certified Seeds Crowd-in Investments? Experimental Evidence from Kenya," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 180:744-757.
2019
Belissa T., Bulte E., Cecchi F., Gangopadhyay S. and Lensink R., 2019. "Liquidity Constraints, Informal Institutions, and the Adoption of Weather Insurance: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140: 269-278.
Duchoslav J. and Cecchi F., 2019. "Do Incentives Matter when Working for God? The Impact of Performance-Based Financing on Faith-Based Healthcare in Uganda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 113(1): 309-319.
2018
Cecchi F. and Duchoslav J., 2018. "The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Cooperation: Evidence from Violent Conflict in Uganda," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 101(1): 35-56.
Namayengo F., Antonides G. and Cecchi F., 2018. "Microcredit and Food Security: Evidence from Rural Households in Uganda," Journal of African Economies, Oxford University Press, vol. 27(4): 457-482.
Galarza-Villamar J. A., Leeuwis C., Pila-Quinga G. M., Cecchi F. and Párraga-Lema C. M., 2018. "Local Understanding of Disaster Risk and Livelihood Resilience: The Case of Rice Smallholders and Floods in Ecuador," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, vol. 30(1): 1107-1120.
2017
Melesse M. and Cecchi F., 2017. "Does Market Experience Attenuate Risk Aversion? Evidence from Landed Farm Households in Ethiopia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 98(1): 447-466.
2016
Cecchi F., Leuveld K. and Voors M., 2016. "Conflict Exposure and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from the Football Field in Sierra Leone," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 64(3): 405-435.
Cecchi F. and Melesse M., 2016. "Formal Law and Customary Change: A Lab-in-Field Experiment in Ethiopia," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 125(C): 67-85.
Cecchi F., Duchoslav J. and Bulte E., 2016. "Formal Insurance and the Dynamics of Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Uganda," Journal of African Economies, Oxford University Press, vol. 25(3): 418-438.
2013
Cecchi F. and Bulte E., 2013. "Does Market Experience Promote Rational Choice? Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 61(2): 407-429.
Insure or Unsure? Basis Risk Exposure and the Uptake of Weather Index Insurance in Kenya. (With S. J. Vosper)
Adopt, adapt, overcome: seed-insurance bundles, sowing time decisions, and insurance pay-outs in Kenya bundled insurance. (With S. J. Vosper)
(the latest version of all published and working papers is available here upon request)