Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri and Celine Zipfel Abstract Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In […]
Social networks in development economics- undergraduate, Yale
Econ 479 syllabus
BREAD Working Paper No. 581, October 2020
Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan, Xiaobo Zhang Abstract This paper examines resilience of Chinese firms to the Covid-19 shock, and how it varied with a cluster index (measuring spatial agglomeration of firms in related industries) at the county level. Two data sources are […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 587, February 2021
Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation Joshua W. Deutschmann, Laura Schechter, Molly Lipscomb, Jessica Zhu Abstract We run a randomized controlled trial coupled with lab-in-the-field social network experiments in urban Dakar. Decision spillovers and health externalities play a large role in determining uptake of sanitation technology, with decision spillovers being largest among households that don’t […]