Pamela Jakiela
[email protected] | www.pamjakiela.com | 2200 Symons Hall, College Park, MD 20742
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2011 - present
Assistant Professor, Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008 - 2012
Other Appointments & Affiliations
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2014 – present
Visiting Scholar, IGIER, Universit`
a Bocconi, March 2012
Research Network Member, Innovations for Poverty Action, 2008 – present
Education
2008
PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
2000
MSc. in Development Studies (with Distinction), London School of Economics
1999
BA in Sustainable Development / English, Residential College, University of Michigan
Publications
1. Xavier Gin´e, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Morduch. (2010) “Microfinance Games,”
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(3): 60-95.
2. Pamela Jakiela. (2011) “Social Preferences and Fairness Norms as Informal Institutions: Experimental Evidence,” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 101(3): 509-513.
- Reprinted in Fairness in Law and Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing (Lee Anne Fennell
and Richard H. McAdams, editors).
3. Pamela Jakiela. (2013) “Equity vs. Efficiency vs. Self-Interest: on the Use of Dictator Games to
Measure Distributional Preferences,” Experimental Economics, 16(2): 208-221.
4. Pamela Jakiela. (2014) “Using Economic Experiments to Measure Informal Institutions,” in Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: the Legacy of Douglass North, Cambridge University
Press (Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, editors).
5. Pamela Jakiela, Edward Miguel, and Vera te Velde. (2015) “Youve Earned It: Estimating the
Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences,” Experimental Economics, forthcoming.
6. Pamela Jakiela. (2015) “How Fair Shares Compare: Experimental Evidence from Two Cultures,”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
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Working Papers
1. Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, and Shachar Kariv. (2015) “How Did Distributional Preferences
Change During the Great Recession?,” NBER Working Paper 20146, revised and resubmitted to
Journal of Public Economics.
2. Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier. (2015) “Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental
Evidence from Village Economies,” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #6085, revised
and resubmitted to Review of Economic Studies.
3. Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, and Shachar Kariv. (2015) “Distributional Preferences and
Voting Behavior,” NBER Working Paper 20145.
Teaching Experience
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland
– Graduate (PhD-level) Applications of Experimental and Behavioral Economics – Fall 2012
– Undergraduate Global Development - Fall 2011, Fall 2012
Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
– Graduate (PhD-level) Behavioral Economics – Fall 2008, Fall 2010
– Undergraduate Behavioral Economics – Fall 2009
– The Political Economy of Development in Africa – Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Centro de Estudios Econ´
omicos, el Colegio de M´
exico
– Mini-Course: Applications of Experimental and Behavioral Economics, November 2010
JPAL/IPA/CMF Staff Training 2010, Limuru, Kenya
– “How to Randomize” course for field research staff, July 2010
Department of Economics, University of San Francisco
– Graduate (Masters-level) Development Microeconomics, Spring 2007
Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley (Teaching Assistant)
– Graduate (PhD-level) Microeconomics Fall 2003–Fall 2005
– Intermediate Microeconomics Spring 2004
– Undergraduate Development Economics Spring 2003, Spring 2007, Fall 2007
Invited Seminars & Conference Presentations
2014:
What can Institutional Economists Learn from Laboratory and Field Experiments?
Conference (Lund University)
Center for the Study of African Economies Conference (Oxford)
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (University of Pittsburgh)
Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (University of Maryland)
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics
2013:
IZA/DFID/AERC Conference on Training Programs and Labour Markets in Africa:
Evidence and Policy Lessons (Nairobi, Kenya)
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2012:
Norwegian School of Economics
Universit`
a Bocconi
Center for the Study of African Economies Conference (Oxford)
Wageningen University
Middlebury College
Dartmouth College
University of Maryland
Yale University
Center for Global Development
Paris School of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
Development Research Group, World Bank
2011:
American Economic Association Annual Meeting
Loyola Marymount University
Case Western Reserve University
International Food Policy Research Institute
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland
University of Notre Dame
Universit`
a Bocconi
Pacific Conference for Development Economics (UC Berkeley)
Center for the Study of African Economies Conference (Oxford)
Midwest International Economic Development Conference (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Georgetown University
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland
Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference (Yale)
Workshop on the Foundations of Moral Preferences (University of Oslo)
Conference on Experimental Economics in Developing Countries (UC Berkeley)
2010:
El C´
olegio de M´exico
NBER Education Program Fall Meeting (Chicago Fed)
Economic Science Association World Meeting (University of Copenhagen)
Midwest International Economic Development Conference (University of Minnesota)
Colgate University
University of Texas at Dallas
2009:
Pacific Conference for Development Economics (San Francisco State University)
NBER Education Program Fall Meeting (Chicago Fed)
2008:
Washington University in St. Louis
UCLA
Boston University
Cornell University
University of Washington
University of Missouri at Columbia
Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference (Boston University)
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2007:
Bay Area Development Association Conference (UC Davis)
Working Group in African Political Economy Conference (Stanford University)
2005:
Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference (Brown University)
Selected Honors, Grants, & Awards
Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries Major Grant
Project: “Estimating the Impacts of a Microfranchising Intervention” — joint with Maddalena
Honorati and Owen Ozier
National Science Foundation Award SES-1357332
Project: “Estimating the Impacts of a Microfranchising Intervention” — joint with Maddalena
Honorati and Owen Ozier
IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme
Project: “Girls Empowered by Microfranchising: Estimating the Impacts of Microfranchising
on Young Women in Nairobi” — joint with Maddalena Honorati and Owen Ozier
Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries Exploratory Grant
Project: “The Impacts of Microfranchising on Young Women in Nairobi” — joint with Maddalena
Honorati and Owen Ozier
Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries Exploratory Grant
Project: “Direct and Indirect Impacts of Credit Scoring for Small and Medium Enterprises” —
joint with Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan, and Daniel Keniston
Journal of Development Economics Award, UC Berkeley
Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant in Behavioral Economics
Experimental Social Science Laboratory Competitive Research Grant, UC Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
Social Science Research Council Risk and Development Field Research Grant
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan
Sidney J. and Irene Shipman Scholarship, University of Michigan
Referee Service
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Review, Econometrica,
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economica, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal,
Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management, Journal of Human Resources, Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review
of Economic Studies, World Bank Economic Review
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Other Information
Languages:
Citizenship:
Date of Birth:
English (native), Spanish (intermediate), French (elementary), Swahili (elementary)
United States
September 2, 1978
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