Kenneth L Leonard

	Kenneth L Leonard
	Associate Professor
	Phone: 301-405-8589	Office: 2116A Symons Hall
	E-mail: kleonard@arec.umd.edu	Research Page
Education:	B.A.: 1989 Swarthmore College Ph.D: 1997 University of California at Berkeley
Research:	Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa
Courses:	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:	"The Cost of Imperfect Agency in Health Care: Evidence from Rural Cameroun," Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming "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 “Getting doctors to do their best: the roles of ability and motivation in health care quality” with Dr. Masatu and A. Vialou, Journal of Human Resources, 43 (2) 2007 “Variation in the quality of care accessible to rural communities in Tanzania” with Dr. Masatu, Health Affairs, 26 (2) 2007 “Learning in Health Care: Evidence of learning about clinician quality in Tanzania” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55 (3) pp. 531-555 2007 “Outpatient process quality evaluation and the Hawthorne Effect” with Dr. Masatu, Social Science & Medicine 63 (9) 2006 “Outcome versus service based payments in health care: lessons from African Traditional Healers,” with Joshua Graff Zivin, Health Economics, 14 (6), pp. 575-593 2005 “African Traditional Healers and Outcome-Contingent Contracts in Health Care,” Journal of Development Economics, 71, no. 1 (June) 2003.

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