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Background
Kwabena B. Donkor is an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a faculty fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He earned his PhD in agricultural & resource economics from University of California, Berkeley, following an MS in agricultural & resource economics (UC Berkeley), an MA in economics (Hunter College) and a BA in economics (Hunter College).
Interests
Donkor conducts research in the areas of behavioral economics, industrial organizations, marketing, and labor economics. Donkor’s work combines insights from behavioral economics with data and field experiments to study social norms, identity, and how these constructs interact with policy within the marketplace. Using theory and data, Donkor quantifies the economic value of behavioral fundamentals such as norm-adherence, identity, and menu opt-out cognitive costs.
Sample Work
Publication
The effects of the Affordable Care Act on seasonal agricultural workers
Donkor, Kwabena B., and Perloff, Jeffrey M.. 2022. “The effects of the Affordable Care Act on seasonal agricultural workers.” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 1: 435-445. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.36