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JONATHAN H. CONNING October 2008 Department of Economics Hunter College and The Graduate Center City University of New York 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Phone: 212-772-5403 Email: [email protected] URL: urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~conning/ Education Yale University, New Haven, CT Ph.D. in Economics, 1996. Dissertation: "Financial Contracting and Intermediary Structures in a Rural Credit Market in Chile." Advisors: Bengt Holmstrom, T.N. Srinivasan, R.E. Evenson. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA Bachelors of Arts in Economics (with High Honors), 1986. Current Position and Affiliations Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Economics Hunter College, City University of New York (Fall 2007-present) Doctoral Faculty, Ph.D. Program in Economics (2002-present) The Graduate Center, City University of New York Previous Professional Experience Assistant Professor, Hunter College, Department of Economics, (2002–Fall 2007) Acting Deputy Chair, Department of Economics, Hunter College. Spring 2007 Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, Spring 2008 Profesor Visitante, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Chile, Santiago. Fall 2007 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka Japan, June-July 2007. Assistant Professor, Williams College, Department of Economics, 1996–2002. Visiting Scholar, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development, Fall 2000. Visiting Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, Fall 1999–Summer 2000. Associated Researcher, Rural Finance Program, The Ohio State University, 1998–present. Visiting Assistant Professor, Summer 1998. Research Fellow, Université de Montréal, C.R.D.E., Department of Economics, 1995–1996. Research Grants and Fellowships Fulbright Scholar Research and Lecturing Award (August -December 2007) University of Chile, Centro de Economía Aplicada, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Santiago. Research Project: “Market Mechanisms for Social Goals: How far can Chile push the market?” PSC-CUNY Research Grant “Auctions for Credit Guarantees in Chile,” 2007–2008 1 Ford Foundation Grant, Economic Development Unit, “Foundations of Social Investment,” (with Jonathan Morduch of New York University), 2005. PSC-CUNY Research Grant “Land, Labor and Property Rights in the Americas,” 2005–2006. Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, CUNY, Faculty Fellow Award, 2004–05. USAID Project BASIS (Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems) Competitive Research Grant Award, for “Rural Households' Land and Labor Market Participation Strategies in El Salvador in the 1990's,” October 1999–December 2001. Mellon Course Development Grant, Williams College, Spring 1999. To develop instructional technology for a course on Game Theory and Information Robert Schalkenbach Foundation Research Grant, “Land and credit markets in rural Chile,” Summer 1997 Research Fellowship, Université de Montréal, C.R.D.E., Department of Economics, 1995–1996. Project on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector Center (at the University of Maryland), Fieldwork Research Grant, “Financial Contracting and Intermediary Structures in Rural Chile,” 1993–1995. Yale Agrarian Studies Research Travel Grant, 1993. Mellon Fellow in Agrarian Studies (tuition and stipend), Institution for Social Policy Studies, Yale University, 1992–1993. Powell Teaching Prize in Economics, Yale University, 1992. Yale Fellowship 1991–1992. Published or forthcoming Academic Papers “Enclaves and Development: an empirical assessment” (with James A. Robinson) Studies in Comparative International Development, forthcoming. “Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries.” (with Chris Udry). in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 3, R.E. Evenson, Schultz, T.P. and P. Pingali (editors), Elsevier - North Holland, 2007. “Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture.” (with James A. Robinson). Journal of Development Economics, 82, 416-447, 2007. “Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Contract.” (with Michael Kevane) in K.A. Appiah and M. Bunzl The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. “Why isn’t there more financial intermediation in developing countries?” (with Michael Kevane). in Insurance against Poverty edited by S. Dercon, Oxford University Press, 2004. “Lending Technologies, Competition, and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia,” in (with Sergio Navajas and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega). Journal of International Development, 15(6), 747– 770, 2003. “Community Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: A critical review.” (with Michael Kevane). World Development, 30(3), 2002. “Outreach, Sustainability and Leverage in Monitored and Peer Monitored Loans.” Journal of Development Economics, 60(1), 1999. “Prêt de groupe, aléa moral et création d'une garantie sociale.” Revue d'Économie du Développement 10(2), 65-101, 1997. Book Reviews Book Review of Internet Economics by Lee McKnight and Joseph Bailey (eds.), in Journal of Regional Science, 38(3), 1998. Refereed Papers Accepted or under Revision1 “Monitoring by Peers or by Delegates? Joint Liability Loans under Moral Hazard.” Revisions requested by the Economic Journal. “Enclaves and Development: An Empirical Assessment” (with James A. Robinson). Revisions requested by Studies in Comparative International Development “Managing Economic Insecurity in El Salvador: Asset ownership and household labor market adjustment.” (with Pedro Olinto and Alvaro Trigueros). Revisions requested by the World Bank Economic Review. ‘Ventas Piratas:’ Product market competition and the depth of lending relationships: rural credit in Chile following trade liberalization.” Revisions requested by the Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. Book Review of Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence by M. Fafchamps (requested by Journal of Economic Literature) Manuscripts and Working Papers “Social Finance” (with Jonathan Morduch) “Impact Evaluation for Land Property Rights Reforms” (with Partha Deb). Published as document No.8 in the Doing Impact Evaluation” series put out by the World Bank’s Thematic Group on Poverty Analysis, Monitoring and Impact Evaluation. “On the Causes of Slavery or Serfdom and the Roads to Agrarian Capitalism: Domar's Hypothesis Revisited” “Latifundia Economics” “Mixing and Matching Loans: An empirical analysis of credit rationing and Spillovers in a Rural Credit Market in Chile," Project IRIS working paper # 164, University of Maryland. August 2001. “Asset Inequality, Education and Redistribution.” (with James A. Robinson). January 2002. “Staff Incentives for Microfinance Organizations in Low-Income Countries: A Review of Theory and Evidence.” (with Gabriel Fuentes and Michael Kevane). March 2000. “Class Position and Economic Behavior: Selective Separability in a two factor household model.” (with Jean-Louis Arcand). July 1999. Research Designs and Other Policy Documents “Design of an Impact Evaluation study of Tanzania’s Village Lands Certification,” presented to World Bank Research Group, May 2006. Currently under implementation. “Design of an Impact Evaluation of study of Tanzania’s program to register house plots in urban unplanned settlements,” World Bank Research Group, May 2006. Currently under implementation. 1 Research papers and manuscripts available at: http://econ.hunter.cuny.edu/~conning/papers/ “Mecanismos de Selección para Redes de Seguridad Social Basados en la Comunidad,” (with Michael Kevane; Spanish translation of “Community Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets.”) Social Protection Unit, The World Bank, 2001. “Enterprise Finance in Kenya” (with Marcel Fafchamps, Tyler Biggs, and Pradeep Srivastava). The World Bank, Regional Program in Enterprise Development, 1994. “Socioeconomic Report on Venezuela 1992.” (with William R. Cline). Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C. Additional Research and Professional Experience Research Consultant, The World Bank: Development Research Group, January 2006-present. Lead technical adviser on design of two large panel household surveys to assess impacts of pilot programs in Tanzanian land property rights reform programs. World Development Report 2008 Member of research team contributing to WDR 2008, chapter on finance and input markets. Poverty Reduction Group, 2005–2007 Lead workshop and wrote methodology note for Impact Evaluation of Land Reforms. Latin America and the Caribbean Division, February 2000–July 2000. Background paper for Ferreira et al. book Securing our Future in a Global Economy. Human Development and Social Protection Division, June 1999–October 2000. Paper and workshop on Community Based Targeting Mechanisms. Regional Program on Enterprise Development, September 1993–June 1994. Field survey and report on informal enterprise finance in Kenya. Research Consultant, The Inter-American Development Bank, May–December 1991. Co-author (with William R. Cline) of 1992 Socioeconomic Report on Venezuela. Research Assistant, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC. 1986–1989, Summer 1990. Assistant to William R. Cline on books on Latin American debt crisis and debt restructuring. Professional Service Journal Article referee for: American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Journal, Economics Bulletin, Economics of Transition, IFPRI Research Reports, Journal of African