Kenneth L. Leonard

B.A.: 1989 Swarthmore College
Ph.D: 1997 University of California at Berkeley

Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa

AREC365 - World Hunger, Population, and Food Supplies

AREC846 - Development Microeconomics

AREC869E - Advanced Topics in Agricultural and Resource Economics: Introduction to Prospectus Writing

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Recent Publications:

Leonard, K.L. and M.C. Masatu, “Using the Hawthorne Effect to examine the gap between a doctors best possible practice and actual practice,” forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.

Leonard, K.L.* and M.C. Masatu, “Professionalism and the Know-Do Gap: Exploring Intrinsic Motivation among Health Workers in Tanzania,” forthcoming, Health Economics.

Klemick, H., Leonard, K.L., and M.C. Masatu, “Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in Rural Tanzania,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 91(2): 347-358. 2009

Gneezy, U., Leonard, K.L. and J. List., “Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society,” Econometrica. 77(5) 1637-1664. 2009

Adelman, S., Essam T. and Leonard K.L. “Idle Chatter or Learning? Evidence of social learning about clinicians and the health system from Rural Tanzania,” Social Science and Medicine. 69: 183-190 2009

"Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence froma Matrilineal and a Patriachal Society," Econometrica 77 (5) 2009

"The Cost of Imperfect Agency in Health Care: Evidence from Rural Cameroun," Journal of Development Economics, 88 (2) 2009

"Moving from the Lab to the Field: Exploring Scrutiny and Duration Effects in Lab Experiments, Economic Letters 100 (2) 2008 

"The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries" Journal of Economic Perspectives 22 (2) 2008

"Is Patient Satisfaction Sensitive to changes in the quality of care? An exploitation of the Hawthorne Effect" Journal of Health Economics 27 (2) 2008