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Marcel A Fafchamps

Global rank #286 99%

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.stanford.edu/~fafchamp/

First Publication: 1992

Most Recent: 2026

RePEc ID: pfa2 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.34 2.82 4.86 0.00 11.83
Last 10 Years 1.34 8.41 12.90 0.00 35.84
All Time 2.35 26.34 50.08 0.00 114.41

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 85
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 83.65

Publications (85)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2026 Intertemporal risk pooling in village economies Journal of Development Economics A 2
2026 Diffusion in social networks: Experimental evidence on information sharing vs persuasion Journal of Development Economics A 4
2025 Material incentives and effort choice: Evidence from an online experiment across countries Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2025 To Defer or to Differ: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Cash Transfers in Nigerian Couples’ Decision-Making Economic Journal A 5
2024 Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment Economic Journal A 5
2022 Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 4
2022 Diffusion of Rival Information in the Field.” World Bank Economic Review B 3
2022 Adoption with Social Learning and Network Externalities* Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 3
2022 Labor conflict within foreign, domestic, and Chinese-owned manufacturing firms in Ethiopia World Development B 2
2021 Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh World Bank Economic Review B 4
2021 The Nature of Unemployment Among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia Review of Economic Studies S 6
2021 When no bad deed goes punished: Relational contracting in Ghana and the UK Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2020 Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment Journal of Development Economics A 4
2020 Banker my neighbour: Matching and financial intermediation in savings groups Journal of Development Economics A 2
2020 Can People form Links to Efficiently Access Information? Economic Journal A 2
2020 Family Networks and Distributive Politics Journal of the European Economic Association A 2
2020 Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2019 Corrigendum: Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan Economic Journal A 5
2019 Expectations, network centrality, and public good contributions: Experimental evidence from India Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2019 The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation World Bank Economic Review B 3
2019 Redistribution and Group Participation: Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK World Bank Economic Review B 2
2018 Are People Equally Other‐Regarding When Selecting a Match Versus Choosing an Allocation? Southern Economic Journal C 2
2018 An experimental study on decentralized networked markets Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2018 Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences: Comment American Economic Review S 2
2018 Peer effects in computer assisted learning: evidence from a randomized experiment Experimental Economics A 2
2018 Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment World Bank Economic Review B 2
2017 The Missing Transfers: Estimating Misreporting in Dyadic Data Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2017 Gold mining and proto-urbanization: recent evidence from Ghana Journal of Economic Geography B 3
2017 Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential World Bank Economic Review B 2
2016 Airtime transfers and mobile communications: Evidence in the aftermath of natural disasters Journal of Development Economics A 3
2016 The heterogeneous effect of software patents on expected returns: Evidence from India Economics Letters C 4
2015 The Formation of Community-Based Organizations: An Analysis of a Quasi-Experiment in Zimbabwe World Development B 3
2015 Keep up with the winners: Experimental evidence on risk taking, asset integration, and peer effects European Economic Review B 3
2015 Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa World Bank Economic Review B 2
2015 Referral and Job Performance: Evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2014 Social Networks and Research Output Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2014 Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana Journal of Development Economics A 4
2014 Network Proximity and Business Practices in African Manufacturing World Bank Economic Review B 2
2014 Editorial Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2014 Education and Household Welfare Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2013 Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 2
2013 Political violence and social networks: Experimental evidence from a Nigerian election Journal of Development Economics A 2
2013 Local financial development and firm performance: Evidence from Morocco Journal of Development Economics A 2
2012 Matching in community-based organizations Journal of Development Economics A 2
2012 Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages World Development B 3
2012 Who Shares Risk with Whom under Different Enforcement Mechanisms? Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2012 Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels Journal of Development Economics A 4
2012 Development, agglomeration, and the organization of work Regional Science and Urban Economics B 1
2012 Reprint of development, agglomeration, and the organization of work Regional Science and Urban Economics B 1
2012 Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers World Bank Economic Review B 2
2012 Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2009 Intrahousehold Welfare in Rural Ethiopia* Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics B 3
2009 The Determinants of Funding to Ugandan Nongovernmental Organizations World Bank Economic Review B 2
2009 Isolation and Subjective Welfare: Evidence from South Asia Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2009 Human Capital, Exports, and Earnings Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2008 Subjective welfare, isolation, and relative consumption Journal of Development Economics A 2
2008 Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2007 Risk Sharing and Network Formation American Economic Review S 2
2007 The formation of risk sharing networks Journal of Development Economics A 2
2007 Contingent Loan Repayment in the Philippines Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2006 Employment concentration across U.S. counties Regional Science and Urban Economics B 2
2006 Child labor, urban proximity, and household composition Journal of Development Economics A 2
2006 Crime, Transitory Poverty, and Isolation: Evidence from Madagascar Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2005 The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda World Development B 3
2005 Changes in the spatial concentration of employment across US counties: a sectoral analysis 1972--2000 Journal of Economic Geography B 2
2005 Assets at marriage in rural Ethiopia Journal of Development Economics A 2
2005 Increasing returns and market efficiency in agricultural trade Journal of Development Economics A 3
2005 Marriage, Bequest, and Assortative Matching in Rural Ethiopia Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2003 Risk Sharing in Labor Markets World Bank Economic Review B 12
2003 Risk-sharing networks in rural Philippines Journal of Development Economics A 2
2003 Social roles, human capital, and the intrahousehold division of labor: evidence from Pakistan Oxford Economic Papers C 2
2002 Insurance market efficiency and crop choices in Pakistan Journal of Development Economics A 2
2002 Returns to social network capital among traders Oxford Economic Papers C 1
2001 Property Rights in a Flea Market Economy. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2000 Rates of Return on Physical and Human Capital in Africa's Manufacturing Sector. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 14
2000 Ethnicity and credit in African manufacturing Journal of Development Economics A 1
1999 Social Heterogeneity and Wasteful Lobbying. Public Choice B 3
1999 Human Capital, Productivity, and Labor Allocation in Rural Pakistan Journal of Human Resources A 2
1998 Drought and saving in West Africa: are livestock a buffer stock? Journal of Development Economics A 3
1997 Introduction: Markets in sub-saharan Africa World Development B 1
1997 Trade credit in Zimbabwean manufacturing World Development B 1
1996 Local demand, investment multipliers, and industrialization: Theory and application to the Guatemalan highlands Journal of Development Economics A 2
1996 Sovereign debt, structural adjustment, and conditionality Journal of Development Economics A 1
1996 The enforcement of commercial contracts in Ghana World Development B 1
1992 Solidarity Networks in Preindustrial Societies: Rational Peasants with a Moral Economy. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1