Wyatt Brooks

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Current Projects

From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model (Revision Requested at REStat)
with Kevin Donovan and Terence Johnson

Capitalizing Village Economies (working paper)
with Danice Guzman and Joseph Kaboski

Trade, Conflict, and the Reorganization of Rwandan Agriculture (working paper coming soon)
with Kevin Donovan

Efficiency in Organizational Structure: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Schools (working paper coming soon)
with Viva Bartkus, Joseph Kaboski, Carolyn Pelnik, and Maurice Sikenyi

Community Lending with External Capital: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Uganda (working paper)
with Danice Guzman, Wyatt Brooks, Joe Kaboski, Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, Sr. Marie Nakitende, Francis Ssekijjo, Br Aloysius Byaruhanga, and Juliet Nambuubi

The Equilibrium Impact of Lowering Internal Trade Costs: Experimental Evidence from New Infrastructure in Rwanda (fieldwork ongoing)
with Kevin Donovan

Market Integration After Conflict: Evidence from Rural Colombia (fieldwork ongoing)
with Viva Bartkus, Joseph Kaboski, and Carolyn Pelnik

The Aggregate Effects of Firm-Level Trade Distortions (working paper)
with Jing Wang

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Economics

Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
(with Kevin Donovan, Terence Johnson, and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi) Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102929.

Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon
(with Viva Bartkus, Joseph Kaboski, and Carolyn Pelnik) Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 155, 102757.

Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
(with Joseph Kaboski, Illenin Kondo, Yao Amber Li and Wei Qian) IMF Economic Review, 2021, 69, 470-504.

Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share
(with Joseph Kaboski, Yao Amber Li and Wei Qian) Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102627.

Agglomeration, Misallocation and (the Lack of) Competition
(with Joseph Kaboski and Yao Amber Li) AEJ: Macro, 2021, 13(4), 483-519.
[IGC blog], [NBER Digest]

Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua
(with Kevin Donovan) Econometrica, 2020, 88(5), 1965-1997.
[VoxDev Article], [A Fine Theorem post], [.pdf copy]

Credit Market Frictions and Trade Liberalization
(with Alessandro Dovis) Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020, 111, 32-47.

Gains from Trade with Variable Trade Elasticities
(with Pau Pujolas) International Economic Review, 2019, 60(4), 1619-1646.

Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya
(with Kevin Donovan and Terence Johnson) AEJ: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(4), 196-221.
[What Would You Fight For?], [VoxDev Article], [J-PAL Summary]

Capital Accumulation and the Welfare Gains from Trade
(with Pau Pujolas) Economic Theory, 2018, 66(2), 491-523.

Other Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mixed methods study design, pre-analysis plan, process evaluation and baseline results of trailbridges in rural Rwanda
(with Denis Macharia, Laura MacDonald, Lambert Mugabo, Kevin Donovan, Sorenie Gudissa, Abbie Noriega, Christina Barstow, Katie Dickinson, and Evan Thomas) Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 838, 10 Septemeber 2022, 156546.

Engineering Environmental Resilience: A Matched Cohort Study of the Community Benefits of Trailbridges in Rural Rwanda
(with Evan Thomas, Abigail Bradshaw, Lambert Mugabo, Laura MacDonald, Katherine Dickinson and Kevin Donovan) Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 771, 1 June 2021, 145275.

Non-Refereed Publications

Is There a Cost-Effective Means of Training Microenterprises?
(with Kevin Donovan and Terence Johnson), World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (supplement), S63-S67.

 

 

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