Jonathan Robinson

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

UC Santa Cruz

457 Engineering 2

Santa Cruz, CA 95064

831-459-5618 (office)

jmrtwo@ucsc.edu

 

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

 

Office Hours for Winter 2010

My office hours for Winter 2010 will be on Wednesdays from 10-12. If you can’t make this time, please email to set up another time.

 

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.

Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review

Popular press mentions: The Economist

 

Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk, with Ethan Yeh, (revised November 2009).

Revised and resubmitted, AEJ: Applied Economics

 

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

Popular press mentions: The NY Times; The Financial Times

 

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.

 

Teaching