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Lauren Falcao Bergquist

  • Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs
  • Yale University

Roles

Lead academics

Research affiliates

Researchers

Email

[email protected]

Lauren Falcao Bergquist is a Lead Academic for IGC Rwanda.

Lauren's research is in development economics, with a focus on agricultural markets and firms in sub-Saharan Africa. She is also an affiliate of NBER, BREAD, CEPR, JPAL, EGC, and Y-RISE.  Lauren received my PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 2017.

Projects

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Striving for quality - Experimental evidence of the impact of quality certification on firms and networks in Rwanda

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Vittorio Bassi, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch, Steven Nyarko 28 Feb 2026
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Land consolidation and agricultural productivity: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Kevin Donovan, Lauren Falcao Bergquist 30 Apr 2026
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Striving for quality: The impact of firm certification in Rwanda

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Vittorio Bassi, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch 1 Apr 2026
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Information frictions, technology adoption, and firm-to-firm linkages

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Yuhei Miyauchi, Federico Huneeus, Nicolas Jimenez 30 Sep 2026
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Exploring firm demand for digital matchmaking: A survey for platform design and implementation

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Vittorio Bassi, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch 31 Mar 2026
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Financial constraints to exporting: Experimental evidence from Rwanda’s Export Growth Fund

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch 30 Sep 2026
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Information frictions, technology adoption, and firm-to-firm linkages

Federico Huneeus, Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Yuhei Miyauchi 30 Sep 2026
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Evaluating Rwanda's Export Growth Fund

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Christian Lippitsch 31 Mar 2025
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Transforming agriculture through innovations in output markets in Ghana

Yaw Nyarko, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Lorenzo Casaburi, Chris Udry 30 Jul 2022
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Quality upgrading and contract enforcement in Uganda's coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Ritwika Sen 30 Jun 2019
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Understanding non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Matthew Grant 30 Jun 2019
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Barriers to market access for smallholder farmers

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

All contributions

Report cover page

Quality upgrading and quality incentives in Uganda’s coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai
Policy brief
Policy brief cover page

Financial constraints on exporting: Preliminary evidence from Rwanda’s Export Growth Fund

Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Christian Lippitsch, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano
Policy brief
The impact of the Rwanda Export Growth Fund illustrated by an arrow trending up over an image of the flag of Rwanda and shipping containers.

Financial constraints to exporting: Preliminary evidence from Rwanda’s Export Growth Fund

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch
Blog
cover page quality upgrading and quality incentives in Uganda's coffee sector

Quality upgrading and quality incentives in Uganda's coffee sector

Ameet Morjaria, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Ritwika Sen
Policy brief
Cover page for working paper

Rwanda's Export Growth Fund: Evaluation and the way forward

Jie Bai, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Christian Lippitsch, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano
Project report
Bergquist et al Final report March 2024 cover

Creating comparative advantage: Identifying information and technology constraints facing SMEs in supplying large firms in Rwanda

Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Jie Bai, Vittorio Bassi, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Christian Lippitsch
Project report
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Firms, Trade, and Development Conference

IGC/EGC Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2023

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