Wyatt Brooks

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Current Projects

Working Papers

Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
with Kevin Donovan, Terence Johnson, and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi

Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon
with Viva Bartkus, Joseph Kaboski, and Carolyn Pelnik
R&R at Journal of Development Economics

The Aggregate Effects of Firm-Level Trade Distortions
with Jing Wang

From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model
with Kevin Donovan and Terence Johnson

Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
with Joseph Kaboski, Illenin Kondo, Yao Amber Li and Wei Qian
R&R at IMF Economic Review

Ongoing Fieldwork

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

Understanding the Details of Mentorship among Kenyan Microenterprises
with Kevin Donovan and Terence Johnson

Completing the Road Network: Evidence from New Vehicular Bridges in Nepal
with Kevin Donovan and Theophile Bougna

Community Lending with Outside Capital: Evidence from Ugandan Villages
with Danice Brown, Marie Nakitende and Jackline Oluoch-Aridi

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Economics

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

Agglomeration, Misallocation and (the Lack of) Competition
(with Joseph Kaboski and Yao Amber Li) AEJ: Macro, 2020, forthcoming.
[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

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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