Marcel Fafchamps

About

Marcel Fafchamps is a member of the Advisory Board at the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. The page does not provide specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Business
• Economics
• Finance
• Statistics
• Medical education
• Family medicine
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Medicine
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• Banker my neighbour: Matching and financial intermediation in savings groups

  Journal of Development Economics · 2020 · 25 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment

  Journal of Development Economics · 2020 · 21 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment

  The Economic Journal · 2025-04-21 · 12 citations

  articleOpen access

  Abstract We evaluate the impacts of a randomised job fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants’ expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model; this improves employment outcomes for less educated jobseekers. Through a unique two-sided belief-elicitation survey, we confirm that firms and jobseekers have overoptimistic expectations about the…

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• Panel data evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods in urban Côte d’Ivoire

  PLoS ONE · 2023-02-01 · 5 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  In early March 2020, a few cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in Abidjan, the capital city of Côte d’Ivoire. To combat the spread of the disease, large restrictions to mobility and gatherings were introduced between mid-March and late May 2020. We collected panel survey data on over 2,500 individuals from poorer neighborhoods of the Greater Abidjan area over the period immediately before and after the start of the pandemic. We document striking drops in employment, hours worked, income, and food c…

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• Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment

  The Economic Journal · 2024-06-12 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access

  Abstract We conduct a field experiment in which we offer credit and saving contracts to the same pool of Pakistani microfinance clients. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form of reminders, either to respondents or to their families), hard commitment (in the form of a penalty for missing an instalment) and flexibility (an option to postpone an instalment) to save or pay loan instalments on time. We find substantial demand for fixed repayment contracts in both…

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Frequent coauthors

• Simon Quinn

  325 shared

• Måns Söderbom

  74 shared

• Albert Zeufack

  66 shared

• Remco Oostendorp

  66 shared

• Farah Said

  65 shared

• Uzma Afzal

  Government College University, Faisalabad

  64 shared

• Jan Willem Gunning

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  63 shared

• Stefan Dercon

  University of Oxford

  61 shared

Awards & honors

• outstanding PhD thesis award from the American Agricultural…

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