Jonathan M Robinson

About

Jonathan M Robinson is a Professor in the Economics Department within the Social Sciences Division. His areas of expertise include Economics and Development Economics, with research interests focused on development economics, program evaluation, and applied microeconomics. He is engaged in research that explores economic development and evaluates programs aimed at improving economic outcomes. His work contributes to understanding economic processes and policies that influence development, leveraging microeconomic analysis to inform policy and practice.

Research topics

• Business
• Economics
• Political Science
• Geography
• Finance
• Socioeconomics
• Mathematics
• Development economics
• Medicine
• Biology

Selected publications

• Exhaustive or exhausting? Evidence on respondent fatigue in long surveys

  Journal of Development Economics · 2022 · 151 citations

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• COVID-19 market disruptions and food security: Evidence from households in rural Liberia and Malawi

  PLoS ONE · 2022 · 46 citations

  We use data collected from panel phone surveys to document the changes in food security of households in rural Liberia and Malawi during the market disruptions associated with the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. We use two distinct empirical approaches in our analysis: (a) an event study around the date of the lockdowns (March to July 2020), and (b) a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the lockdown period in 2020 to the same months in 2021, in order to attempt to control for seasonality. I…

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• The Impact of Digital Credit in Developing Economies: A Review of Recent Evidence

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 24 citations

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• Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi

  The Economic Journal · 2023-10-06 · 20 citations

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  Abstract Digital credit has expanded rapidly in Africa, with opaque loan terms amidst low consumer financial literacy. Rich data from Malawi shows substantial demand for a digital loan with a base interest rate of 10% over 15 days, yet most borrowers are not aware of loan terms, repay late and incur substantial late fees. Regression discontinuity analyses show no evidence that access to small digital loans harms consumers’ perceived well-being. A short, randomised, phone-based financial literacy…

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• Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

  The World Bank Economic Review · 2024-08-22 · 6 citations

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  Abstract Women may underreport intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys. In an experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi, women were asked IPV questions via self-interviewing (SI) or face-to-face interviewing. Many respondents appear to misunderstand questions in SI, and significant effects of SI were observed on innocuous placebo questions. Because the prevalence of IPV is typically well below 50 percent, such measurement error will tend to bias IPV reporting upwards. Indeed, the results show th…

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Frequent coauthors

• Pascaline Dupas

  Center for Economic and Policy Research

  111 shared

• Shilpa Aggarwal

  Indian School of Business

  47 shared

• Marko Prous

  University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden

  37 shared

• E. Jansen

  Senckenberg German Entomological Institute

  37 shared

• Ole J. Lønnve

  37 shared

• Taeger Andreas

  37 shared

• Erik Heibo

  36 shared

• Keith P. Bland

  36 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Princeton University

• S.B., Economics, Political Science

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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