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
• Demographic economics
• Environmental health
• Statistics
• Agricultural economics
• Actuarial science
• Psychology
• Applied psychology

Selected publications

• Going the Extra Mile: Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• P.115 Addressing barriers to the use of remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) during labour - a quality improvement project

  International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia · 2025-05-01

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• The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment Linking Farmers Cooperatives with a Maize Processor in Rwanda

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-07-19

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• The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 4 citations

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• Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-03-01

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  While cash transfers consistently show large effects on immediate outcomes like consumption, limited access to markets may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access agricultural inputs. Cash alone increases investment by 27%, while the joint provision of cash and the input fair increases investment by about 40%; thus, the incremental effect of the input fair is equivalent to about a 50% increase compared to the effect of cash alone. Input fairs alone were ineffective.

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• The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment Linking Farmers Cooperatives with a Maize Processor in Rwanda

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-07-19

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• Shortening the Path to Productive Investment: Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 5 citations

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• Shortening the path to productive investment: Evidence from input fairs and cash transfers in Malawi

  Journal of Development Economics · 2024-04-08 · 5 citations

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• Its Showtime! Evaluating the Effect of TV Programming on Agricultural Productivity in Rural Zambia

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-08-29

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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