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Lauren Falcao Bergquist

  • Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs
  • Yale University

Roles

IGC Staff

Lead academics

Researchers

Lauren Falcao Bergquist is Lead Academic for IGC Rwanda.

She is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University. Her research is in development economics, with a focus on agricultural markets and firms in sub-Saharan Africa. She received her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 2017.

Projects

Transforming agriculture through innovations in output markets in Ghana

Yaw Nyarko, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Lorenzo Casaburi, Chris Udry 30 Jul 2022
Project

Quality upgrading and contract enforcement in Uganda's coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Ritwika Sen 30 Jun 2019
Project

Understanding non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Matthew Grant 30 Jun 2019
Project

Barriers to market access for smallholder farmers

Craig McIntosh, Paul Gertler, Lauren Falcao Bergquist 1 Sep 2017
Project

All contributions

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IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development

19–20 October 2023
Past Event
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Non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Matthew Grant, Meredith Startz, Eleanor Wiseman
Policy brief
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Understanding non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Matthew Grant, Meredith Startz
Project report

Supporting the development of Uganda’s 2nd national strategy for private sector development (2020/21 - 2024/25) through economic research session: Agriculture & agro-industrialization

21 October 2020
Past Event