Garance Genicot

Research Interest:

Garance Genicot is an economist who studies key issues in development economics such as aspirations, informal credit and insurance markets, intra-household bargaining, social networks, tolerance, inequality and mobility.

Research Statement

Working Papers:

• "Diffusion Centrality: Foundations and Extensions," with Yann Bramoullé

• "Political Reservations as Term-Limits" with Cait Brown and Nishtha Kochhar

• "Measuring Upward Mobility," with Debraj Ray

• "Female Firstborn and Family Structure" with Maria Hernandez de Benito

Published Papers:

• Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks , Journal of Political Economy 130 (1), 2022 Slides

• Women's Land Rights and Village Institutions in Tanzania with Maria Hernandez de Benito, World Development 153, 2022.

• Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions, with Laurent Bouton and Micael Castanheira, Journal of the European Economic Association 19(6), 2021. Slides

• Aspirations in Economics: a Review, with Debraj Ray, Annual Reviews of Economics 12, pp 715-746, 2020. Slides

• Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks, with Joachim de Weerdt and Alice Mesnard, Journal of Human Resources 54(1), pp 225-254, 2019. Slides

• The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil, with Anna Maria Mayda and Mariapia Mendola, in Markets, Governance and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development Oxford University Press, 2018.

• Inequality and Aspirations, with Debraj Ray, Econometrica 85, (2), 489-519, 2017. See also the online appendix

• Two-sided Altruism and Signaling, Economics Letter 145, 92-97, 2016.

• Suicides and Property Rights in India, with Siwan Anderson, Journal of Development Economics 114, pp. 64-78, 2015. Our column in Ideas for India.

• Group Formation and Risk Pooling in a Field Experiment, with Abigail Barr, Orazio Attanasio, Juan Camilo Cardenas and Costas Meghir, AEJ: Applied Economics, 4(2), 134-167 April 2012.

• What Do Networks Do? The Role of Networks on Migration and 'Coyote' Use, with Sarah Dolfin, Review of Development Economics 14(2), pp 343-359, May 2010.

• An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Without Commitment, with Gary Charness, Economic Journal 119 April 2009, 796-825.

• Risk Pooling, Commitment and Information: An Experimental Test, with Abigail Barr, Journal of the European Economic Association 6(6): 1151-1185, December 2008.

• Child Bonded Labor entry for The World of Child Labor, Hugh Hindman ed., ME Sharpe, 2009.

• Informal Insurance in Social Networks, with Francis Bloch and Debraj Ray, Journal of Economic Theory 143(1), 36-58, November 2008.

• Reciprocity in Groups and the Limits to Social Capital, with Francis Bloch and Debraj Ray, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2007.

• Contracts and Externalities: How Things Fall Apart, with Debraj Ray, Journal of Economic Theory 131(1), pp 71-100, November 2006.

• Bargaining Power and Enforcement in Credit Markets, with Debraj Ray, Journal of Development Economics 79(2), pp 398-412, April 2006.

• Malnutrition and Child Labor, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 107 (1), pp 83-102, March 2005.

• Informal Insurance, Enforcement Constraints, and Group Formation, with Debraj Ray, in Group Formation in Economics: Networks, Clubs, and Coalitions, edited by Gabrielle Demange and Myrna Wooders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005.

• Endogenous Group Formation in Risk-Sharing Arrangements, with Debraj Ray, Review of Economic Studies 70 (1), January 2003. For a conjecture related to the paper, click here. For robustness checks of Example 2, click here.

• Demand Elasticities for Health Service Providers in Tanzania, with D. Sahn and S. Younger, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 65(2), pp 241-260, May 2003.

• Investing in Conflict Management, with S. Skaperdas (+ Figures), Journal of Conflict Resolution 46 (1), February 2002.

• Bonded Labor and Serfdom: A Paradox of Voluntary Choice, Journal of Development Economics 67 (1), 101-127, February 2002.

• Minimum Wage Laws and Unemployment Benefits when Labor Supply is a Household Decision, with K. Basu and J.E. Stiglitz, in Markets and Government, Oxford University Press 2002.

• Equivalence Scales and Family Allowances, with F. Foidart and P. Pestieau, Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles 155, 3eme trimestre 1997.

Older Working Papers:

• Public Good Provision with Intermediaries, with Francis Bloch.

• Inequality and Risk-Sharing Arrangements.