Michael Kremer
Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster have recently published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases.
Content by Michael Kremer
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Project
Digital information channels in the Rwandan potato value chain
There are several challenges in modernising agricultural value chains in developing countries. A substantial one is the high unit cost of connecting a vast and remote population of small-scale growers (henceforth, growers) to markets and useful information. The introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) into this sector holds great promise for...
10 Dec 2019 | Ram Fishman, Michael Kremer, Daniel Bjorkegren
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Project
Six randomised controlled trials designed to improve learning outcomes for disadvantaged children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Education investment represents a large fraction of the total investment in many developing countries, but the skills of many pupils lag far behind those of their peers in richer countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, limiting human capital development and economic growth. With improved enrolment rates in primary education, the next step in many developing...
21 Nov 2019 | Michael Kremer
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Project
Building state capacity with market design
Government employees are often reluctant to be posted to remote or unfamiliar areas, either refusing to take certain assignments or taking assignments but living elsewhere, and demonstrating high rates of absenteeism. This weakens state capacity in these regions. Also, many developing countries are not only ethnically diverse, but suffer from ethnic conflict or have...
21 Nov 2019 | Michael Kremer, Willa Friedman, Guthrie Alexander Gray-Lobe
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Publication - Project Report
Testing the impact of contracts to improve financial access for small firms
14 Nov 2019 | Kevin Carney, Michael Kremer, Xinyue Lin, Gautam Rao
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Project
Testing the impact of contracts to improve financial access for small firms
Access to finance for the purchase of productive assets is central to the success of small firms. This project studies three scalable financial instruments designed to address behavioural constraints that may limit small firms’ financial access, investment and technology adoption: asset-collateralised loans (ACLs); layaway contracts; and a hybrid layaway-ACL...
14 Nov 2019 | Michael Kremer, Kevin Carney, Xinyue Lin, Gautam Rao
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Publication - Working Paper
Vocational Education in Kenya (Working Paper)
9 Oct 2014 | Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti, Edward Miguel
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Project
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Some researchers argue that secondary education is likely to have a much larger impact than primary education on long-run earnings, health, fertility, gender equality, and civic and political participation. But expanding secondary education is a significantly more expensive undertaking than providing free primary education. Working with the government of Ghana, this...
4 Sep 2014 | Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Pascaline Dupas
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Publication - Policy Brief
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Policy Brief)
1 Mar 2012 | Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
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Publication - Working Paper
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Final Report)
1 Mar 2012 | Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
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Publication - Policy Brief
Vocational Education in Kenya (Policy Brief)
1 Apr 2011 | Joan Hamory Hicks, Jonas Hjort, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, Edward Miguel
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Publication - Working Paper
Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns
1 Apr 2011 | Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti, Edward Miguel
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Project
Vocational Education in Kenya
Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing social and economic problems that less developed countries face today. Yet little is known about how best to smooth the school-to-work transition or to boost human capital for those not on the academic schooling track. Vocational education is one promising avenue for addressing the problem. However, few existing rigorous...
1 Sep 2009 | Edward Miguel, Jonas Hjort, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti