Erlend Berg
Email: erlend.berg@bristol.ac.uk
Post: Department of Economics, Priory Road Complex, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom
Office: 3C5 in the Priory Road Complex
Office hour (no appointment needed): Tuesday 14:30-15:30 during term
My main research interests are in social protection, household risk management and policy evaluation in developing countries. Several of my projects involve randomised-controlled trials or field experiments.
After obtaining my PhD from the London School of Economics, I was the Acting Research Network Director of the International Growth Centre and subsequently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. I am affiliated with the Centre for Market and Public Organisation and the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
I currently lecture microeconomics for second-year undergraduates and development economics for master's students. I also have experience teaching econometrics, mathematics, statistics and programming.
Working Papers
Publications
- Pushing welfare: Encouraging awareness and uptake of social benefits in South India
With D Rajasekhar and R Manjula. Accepted for publication, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
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Motivating knowledge agents: Can incentive pay overcome social distance?
[WP]
With Maitreesh Ghatak, R Manjula, D Rajasekhar and Sanchari Roy.
Economic Journal, 2019, 129(617):110–142.
- Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee
[WP]
With Sambit Bhattacharyya, Rajasekhar Durgam and Manjula Ramachandra.
World Development, March 2018, 103:239–254.
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Does participation lead to on-going infrastructure maintenance? Evidence from Caribbean landslide mitigation projects
With Liz Holcombe, Sarah Smith, Malcolm Anderson and Niels Holm-Nielsen.
Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 54(8):1374–1391.
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Funeral Insurance: An Inter-Generational Commitment Device?
[WP]
Journal of African Economies, 2018, 27(3):321–346.
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Are poor households credit-constrained or myopic? Evidence from a South African panel
[WP]
Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101:195–205.
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Implementing health insurance: The rollout of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana in Karnataka
With Maitreesh Ghatak, R Manjula, D Rajasekhar and Sanchari Roy.
Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(20):56–63.
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The youngest children in each school cohort are over-represented in referrals to mental health services
[WP]
With S Berg.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2014, 75(5):530–534.