Francesco Cecchi
Wageningen University and Research Centre
31 Papers
56 Citations
Francesco Cecchi is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Market liquidity & Collective action. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 22 publications. Previous affiliations of Francesco Cecchi include University of Groningen.
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Papers
Conflict Exposure and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from the Football Field in Sierra Leone
TL;DR: The authors used data from a street football tournament and a series of lab-in-field experiments in post-conflict Sierra Leone to examine the impact of exposure to conflict violence on competitive behavior.
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Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya
Erwin Bulte,Erwin Bulte,Francesco Cecchi,Francesco Cecchi,Robert Lensink,Robert Lensink,Ana Marr,Marcel van Asseldonk +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a randomised experiment in Kenya to analyse how smallholder farmers respond to receiving a free hybrid crop insurance product, conditional on purchasing certified seeds, and found that farmers increase effort and take more land in production.
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Does Market Experience Attenuate Risk Aversion? Evidence from Landed Farm Households in Ethiopia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of market experience on risk aversion for a relatively large sample of landed farm households characterized by historically low mobility in Ethiopia and found that households with greater market experience are more risk tolerant.
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Does Market Experience Promote Rational Choice? Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Francesco Cecchi,Erwin Bulte +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment with sesame farmers and brokers in northern Ethiopia to explore whether market experience fosters rational behavior was conducted, and the results showed that treated farmers behave more rationally than their peers in the control group.
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Formal Insurance and the Dynamics of Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the introduction of formal insurance affects the within-village dynamics of social capital in south-western Uganda and find that formal insurance crowds out social capital.
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