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Overview

Marcel Fafchamps is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. The primary field of study is Social Sciences, with specific concentration in Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Gender Studies.

Their research topics include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Taxation and Compliance Studies, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Auction Theory and Applications, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Asad Islam
  • Debayan Pakrashi
  • Paolo Falco
  • Pascaline Dupas
  • Denni Tommasi

Marcel Fafchamps has contributed to multiple publication venues. The most frequent are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • The Economic Journal
  • The World Bank Economic Review
  • The Review of Economic Studies

Recent papers by Marcel Fafchamps include:

  • Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment, 2020, Journal of Development Economics
  • Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, 2021, The World Bank Economic Review

Other recent papers relevant to the broader research community, though not authored by Marcel Fafchamps, include:

  • Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City, 2020, The Review of Economic Studies
  • Labor conflict within foreign, domestic, and Chinese-owned manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, 2022, World Development
  • Matching Frictions and Distorted Beliefs: Evidence from a Job Fair Experiment, 2025, The Economic Journal

Marcel Fafchamps has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks titled The Evolution of Built-Up Areas in Ghana since 1975 (2020).

Best Publications

  • Peasant Household Behaviour with Missing Markets: Some Paradoxes Explained.

    Alain de Janvry;Marcel Fafchamps;Elisabeth Sadoulet

  • Risk-Sharing Networks in Rural Philippines

    Marcel Fafchamps;Susan Lund

  • Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • The formation of risk sharing networks

    Marcel Fafchamps;Flore Gubert

  • Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock?

    Marcel Fafchamps;Christopher Udry;Katherine Czukas

  • Rural Poverty, Risk and Development

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Solidarity Networks in Preindustrial Societies: Rational Peasants with a Moral Economy*

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Cash Crop Production, Food Price Volatility, and Rural Market Integration in the Third World

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Returns to Social Network Capital among Traders

    Marcel Fafchamps;Bart Minten

  • Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers

    Marcel Fafchamps;Bart Minten

  • Selling at the Farmgate or Traveling to Market

    Marcel Fafchamps;Ruth Vargas Hill

  • When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

    Marcel Fafchamps;David McKenzie;Simon R. Quinn;Christopher Woodruff

  • Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa

    Arne Bigsten;Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon;Marcel Fafchamps

  • The enforcement of commercial contracts in Ghana

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Ethnicity and credit in African manufacturing

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Relationships and traders in Madagascar

    Marcel Fafchamps;Bart Minten

  • Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting

    Arne Bigsten;Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon;Marcel Fafchamps

  • Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

    Marcel Fafchamps;David McKenzie;Simon Quinn;Christopher M. Woodruff

  • Development and social capital

    Marcel Fafchamps

  • Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan

    Marcel Fafchamps;Agnes R. Quisumbing

Frequent Co-Authors

Måns Söderbom
Måns Söderbom University of Gothenburg
Jan Willem Gunning
Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
Bart Minten
Bart Minten International Food Policy Research Institute
Arne Bigsten
Arne Bigsten University of Gothenburg
Agnes R. Quisumbing
Agnes R. Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute
Paul Collier
Paul Collier University of Oxford
Francis Teal
Francis Teal University of Oxford
Christopher Woodruff
Christopher Woodruff University of Oxford
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Elisabeth Sadoulet University of California, Berkeley

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