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Kwabena Donkor

Visiting Assistant Professor 2023-2024 Assistant professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Faculty fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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