Jack J. Willis

Jack Willis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on development economics and its intersection with public economics, behavioral economics and household finance. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Math from Cambridge University, an M.A. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, for which his dissertation was awarded the Padma Desai Prize in Economic Science.

Further information is available on hisĀ personal website.

CDEP projects:

Barriers to Social Learning Among Smallholder Farms

Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Evaluating Contract Farming

Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya