Jonathan Robinson

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

UC Santa Cruz

457 Engineering 2

Santa Cruz, CA 95064

831-459-5618 (office)

jmrtwo@ucsc.edu

 

CV

 

Welcome to my webpage. Here you can find my research papers and information on the courses I teach.

 

Drafts

Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis, with Pascaline Dupas, June 2009.

 

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya, with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, June 2009.

 

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya, with Pascaline Dupas, March 2009.

 

Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk, with Ethan Yeh, May 2009.

 

Limited Insurance Within the Household: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Western Kenya, April 2008.

 

Publication

 

How High are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya, with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (2): 482-488, 2008.

 

Works in Progress

 

Estimating Rates of Return Among Shopkeepers in Kenya: Evidence from Inventories, with Michael Kremer and Jean Lee. 

 

Teaching