Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
I am a 5th -year Ph.D. student in Economics at Bordeaux School of Economics (Univ. Bordeaux). My research focuses on agricultural transformation, agricultural value-chain, and social protection in East Africa.
I was a Fulbright visiting scholar at UC – Berkeley in 2022-2023, and at the University of Georgia in fall 2021.
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Have a look at my website for further details.
Publications:
« Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders« , with Banawe Anissa and Erwin Bulte. Economic Development and Cultural Change (2024)
Working Papers:
« Returns to Quality in Rural Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Wheat Markets in Ethiopia », IFPRI Discussion Paper 02101 (February 2022). R&R at JDE. [Link to most recent version]
Work in Progress
- « General equilibrium effects of social policy: evidence from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program ».
- « Fixing markets for unobservable quality, Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural wheat traders in Ethiopia », with Gashaw T. Abate (IFPRI), Tanguy Bernard (BSE), Erwin Bulte (Wageningen University), and Elisabeth Sadoulet (UC Berkeley) .
- « The impact of quality measurement and collective marketing training on Ethiopian wheat farmers’ commercialization behaviors », with Gashaw T. Abate (IFPRI), and Tanguy Bernard (BSE).
- « Experimental design for encouraging the adoption of Aflasafe among small-scale farmers in Nigeria », with Tanguy Bernard (BSE), Yanyan Liu (IPFRI), Nozomi Kawarazuka (IPP), and Tesfamicheal Wossen (IITA).
- « Using Market Intelligence to Inform Plant Breeding Investments », with Tanguy Bernard (BSE), Berber Kramer (IFPRI), Valerien Pede (IRRI), Brendan Rice (IFPRI), and Carly Trachtman (IFPRI).
- « The effects of cassava drying technology on commercialization and consumption smoothing in rural Uganda », with Mathew Ahimbisibwe Kato (Vichad) and Jed Silver (UC Berkeley).
Office: H2-210; email: jdnmiguel<at>u-bordeaux<dot>fr