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Kenneth Leonard

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First Name:Kenneth
Middle Name:L.
Last Name:Leonard
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RePEc Short-ID:ple2
http://www.arec.umd.edu/kleonard
2200 Symons Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Terminal Degree:1997 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; University of California-Berkeley (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (United States)
http://www.arec.umd.edu/
RePEc:edi:daumdus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. M. Mehrab Bakhtiar & Marcel Fafchamps & Markus Goldstein & Kenneth L. Leonard & Sreelakshmi Papineni, 2022. "Women's Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria," NBER Working Papers 30789, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Ibnat,Fabliha & Leonard,Kenneth L & Bawo,Luke & Mohammed-Roberts,Rianna L., 2019. "The Three-Gap Model of Health Worker Performance," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8782, The World Bank.
  3. Jeffrey Flory & Uri Gneezy & Kenneth Leonard & John List, 2017. "Gender, Age, and Competition: a Disappearing Gap?," Artefactual Field Experiments 00611, The Field Experiments Website.
  4. Niklas Buehren & Markus Goldstein & Kenneth Leonard & Joao Montalvao & Kathryn Vasilaky, 2016. "Empowering Girls Triggers Their Brothers to Compete," World Bank Publications - Reports 25447, The World Bank Group.
  5. Kenneth Leonard & Kathryn Vasilaky, 2016. "As Good as the Company They Keep?," World Bank Publications - Reports 25449, The World Bank Group.
  6. Buehren,Niklas & Goldstein,Markus P. & Leonard,Kenneth & Montalvao,Joao & Vasilaky,Kathryn, 2016. "Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7699, The World Bank.
  7. kenneth L. Leonard & Melkiory C. Masatu & Christopher H. Herbst & Christophe Lemiere, 2015. "The Systematic Assessment of Health Worker Performance: A Framework for Analysis and its Application in Tanzania," Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper Series 104096, The World Bank.
  8. Christophe Lemiére & Gaute Torsvik & Ottar Mæstad & Christopher H. Herbst & Kenneth L. Leonard, 2013. "Evaluating the Impact of Results-Based Financing on Health Worker Performance: Theory, Tools and Variables to Inform an Impact Evaluation," Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper Series 98269, The World Bank.
  9. Jeffrey Flory & Uri Gneezy & Kenneth Leonard & John List, 2012. "Sex, competitiveness, and investment in offspring: On the origin of preferences," Artefactual Field Experiments 00072, The Field Experiments Website.
  10. McNamara, Paul E. & Ulimwengu, John M. & Leonard, Kenneth L., 2010. "Do health investments improve agricultural productivity? Lessons from agricultural household and health research," IFPRI discussion papers 1012, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  11. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2008. "Using the Hawthorne Effect to Examine the Gap Between a Doctor's Best Possible Practice and Actual Performance," Working Papers 36693, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  12. Klemick, Heather & Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2008. "Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in Rural Tanzania," Working Papers 6178, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  13. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2008. "Professionalism, Latent Professionalism and Organizational Demands for Health Care Quality in a Developing Country," Working Papers 42883, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  14. Das, Jishnu & Hammer, Jeffrey & Leonard, Kenneth, 2008. "The quality of medical advice in low-income countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4501, The World Bank.
  15. Uri Gneezy & Kenneth L. Leonard & John A. List, 2008. "Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society," NBER Working Papers 13727, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Uri Gneezy & Kenneth Leonard & John List, 2008. "Rise and Fall of Competitiveness in Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies," Natural Field Experiments 00465, The Field Experiments Website.
  17. Adelman, Sarah W. & Essam, Timothy M. & Leonard, Kenneth L., 2008. "Idle Chatter or Learning? Evidence from Rural Tanzania of Social Learning about Clinicians and the Health System," Working Papers 42884, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  18. Kenneth Leonard & Melkiory Masatu, 2007. "Moving from the lab to the field: Exploring scrutiny and duration effects in lab experiments," Natural Field Experiments 00293, The Field Experiments Website.
  19. Kenneth Leonard & Joshua Graff Zivin, 2003. "Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers," NBER Working Papers 9797, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Kenneth L. Leonard, 2001. "African Traditional Healers : The Economics of Healing," World Bank Publications - Reports 10806, The World Bank Group.

Articles

  1. Flory, Jeffrey A. & Gneezy, Uri & Leonard, Kenneth L. & List, John A., 2018. "Gender, age, and competition: A disappearing gap?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 256-276.
  2. Brock, J. Michelle & Lange, Andreas & Leonard, Kenneth L., 2018. "Giving and promising gifts: Experimental evidence on reciprocity from the field," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 188-201.
  3. Kathryn N. Vasilaky & Kenneth L. Leonard, 2018. "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 66(4), pages 755-792.
  4. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2017. "Changing health care provider performance through measurement," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 181(C), pages 54-65.
  5. J. Michelle Brock & Andreas Lange & Kenneth L. Leonard, 2016. "Generosity and Prosocial Behavior in Healthcare Provision: Evidence from the Laboratory and Field," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 51(1), pages 133-162.
  6. Brock, J. Michelle & Lange, Andreas & Leonard, Kenneth L., 2015. "Esteem and social information: On determinants of prosocial behavior of clinicians in Tanzania," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 85-94.
  7. James C. Hanson & Kenneth L. Leonard & Timothy Essam, 2013. "Listening while evaluating: examining the benefit of an NGO programme using season extenders (greenhouses) in Bosnia-Herzegovina," Journal of Development Effectiveness, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 116-136, March.
  8. Kenneth L. Leonard & Melkiory C. Masatu, 2010. "Professionalism and the know‐do gap: exploring intrinsic motivation among health workers in Tanzania," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(12), pages 1461-1477, December.
  9. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2010. "Using the Hawthorne effect to examine the gap between a doctor's best possible practice and actual performance," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(2), pages 226-234, November.
  10. Uri Gneezy & Kenneth L. Leonard & John A. List, 2009. "Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence From a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 77(5), pages 1637-1664, September.
  11. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Adelman, Sarah W. & Essam, Timothy, 2009. "Idle chatter or learning? Evidence of social learning about clinicians and the health system from rural Tanzania," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 69(2), pages 183-190, July.
  12. Leonard, Kenneth L., 2009. "The cost of imperfect agency in health care: Evidence from rural Cameroun," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(2), pages 282-291, March.
  13. Klemick, Heather & Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2008. "AJAE appendix for ‘Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in Rural Tanzania’," American Journal of Agricultural Economics APPENDICES, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 91(2), pages 1-5, October.
  14. Leonard, Kenneth L., 2008. "Is patient satisfaction sensitive to changes in the quality of care? An exploitation of the Hawthorne effect," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 444-459, March.
  15. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2008. "Moving from the lab to the field: Exploring scrutiny and duration effects in lab experiments," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 100(2), pages 284-287, August.
  16. Jishnu Das & Jeffrey Hammer & Kenneth Leonard, 2008. "The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 22(2), pages 93-114, Spring.
  17. Kenneth L. Leonard & Melkiory C. Masatu & Alexandre Vialou, 2007. "Getting Doctors to Do Their Best: The Roles of Ability and Motivation in Health Care Quality," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 42(3).
  18. Leonard, Kenneth L, 2007. "Learning in Health Care: Evidence of Learning about Clinician Quality in Tanzania," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 55(3), pages 531-555, April.
  19. Heather Klemick & Kenneth L. Leonard & Melkiory C. Masatu, 2007. "Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in Rural Tanzania," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 91(2), pages 347-358.
  20. Leonard, Kenneth & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2006. "Outpatient process quality evaluation and the Hawthorne Effect," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 63(9), pages 2330-2340, November.
  21. Kenneth L. Leonard, 2006. "Market Institutions in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence. By MARCEL FAFCHAMPS," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 73(291), pages 552-553, August.
  22. Leonard, Kenneth L. & Masatu, Melkiory C., 2005. "The use of direct clinician observation and vignettes for health services quality evaluation in developing countries," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(9), pages 1944-1951, November.
  23. Kenneth L. Leonard & Joshua Graff Zivin, 2005. "Outcome versus service based payments in health care: lessons from African traditional healers," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(6), pages 575-593, June.
  24. Kenneth Leonard & David Leonard, 2004. "The Political Economy of Improving Health Care for the Poor in Rural Africa: Institutional Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(4), pages 50-77.
  25. Leonard, Kenneth L., 2003. "African traditional healers and outcome-contingent contracts in health care," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 71(1), pages 1-22, June.
  26. Leonard, Kenneth L., 2002. "When both states and markets fail: asymmetric information and the role of NGOs in African health care," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 61-80, July.
  27. Kenneth L. Leonard & Gilbert R. Mliga & Damen Haile Mariam, 2002. "Bypassing Health Centres in Tanzania: Revealed Preferences for Quality," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), vol. 11(4), pages 441-471, December.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 9 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (5) 2003-07-10 2008-02-09 2010-09-25 2016-04-09 2020-03-16. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (4) 2008-01-12 2016-06-25 2017-06-25 2023-01-23
  3. NEP-AFR: Africa (3) 2008-02-09 2016-04-09 2016-06-25
  4. NEP-DEV: Development (3) 2008-02-09 2016-04-09 2016-06-25
  5. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (2) 2008-01-12 2008-02-09
  6. NEP-AGE: Economics of Ageing (1) 2017-06-25
  7. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2010-09-25
  8. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2016-06-25
  9. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2010-09-25
  10. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2017-06-25
  11. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2017-06-25
  12. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2016-06-25
  13. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2008-02-09

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