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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Selected 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,” Journal of Development Economics. 93 (2): 226-243 (2010)

Leonard, K.L. and M.C. Masatu, “Professionalism and the Know-Do Gap: Exploring Intrinsic Motivation among Health Workers in Tanzania,” Health Economics 19 (12): 1461-1477 (2010).

McNamara, P.E., Ulimwengu, J.M. and Leonard, K.L “Do health investments improve agricultural productivity?” IFPRI discussion papers No 1012. (2010)

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

Leonard K.L., Adelman, S. and Essam T. “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

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

Das, J., J. Hammer and Leonard, K.L., “The Quality of Medical Advice in Low Income Countries,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22 (2) 2008.

Leonard, K.L., “Is Patient Satisfaction Sensitive to Changes in the Quality of Care? An Exploitation of the Hawthorne Effect” Journal of Health Economics, 27 (2) 2008.

Leonard, K.L. and M.C. Masatu “Outpatient process quality evaluation and the Hawthorne Effect”, Social Science & Medicine 63 (9) 2006