Joshua Deutschmann

University of Chicago

Joshua Deutschmann is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Lead Researcher at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is interested broadly in development and behavioral economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. Previously, he worked as Data Manager for the Dakar Urban Sanitation project with Innovations for Poverty Action.

Poor product quality plagues developing country markets, especially for goods like agricultural inputs where quality is only revealed after a farmer has used them.

We document the trajectory of SMEs in Burkina Faso between 2020 and 2022, which were affected not only by the global Covid-19 shock, but also by several negative local shocks: two coups took place in 2022, in the context of increasing frequent terrorist attacks.

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Joshua Deutschmann

Researcher's Grant Projects

Credit for Climate Change: Water Tanks as a Means of Resilience

The Effect of Government Relief Measures on SME Employment and Survival in Burkina Faso during the COVID-19 Crisis

Researcher's Publications

Characterising Competition in the Market for Agricultural Inputs in Kenya

The compounded effects of Covid-19 and other crises on SMEs in Burkina Faso