Robin Burgess

London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

39h-index10.5kcitations163works9.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Income, Poverty, and Inequality(24), Microfinance and Financial Inclusion(18), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare(15), Agricultural risk and resilience(15), Corruption and Economic Development(14)

Publications163 total

National Borders and the Conservation of Nature
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Climate and environment: what we know and what we need to know
LSE Press eBooks·2025Open Access
The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics
The Review of Economic Studies·2025· 16 citedOpen Access
Modernization and Son Preference in People’s Republic of China
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda
Journal of Labor Economics·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
Annual Review of Economics·2023· 92 citedOpen Access
Enhancing Enforcement through Religious Institutions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistans Power Sector
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Enhancing Enforcement through Religious Institutions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistans Power Sector
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
2023· 8 citedOpen Access
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Pushing on a String? Price Interventions to Reduce Theft in Pakistans Power Sector
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Pushing on a String? Price Interventions to Reduce Theft in Pakistans Power Sector
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
Pushing on a String? Price Interventions to Reduce Theft in Pakistans Power Sector
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials·2023
The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment in Uganda
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Social Incentives, Delivery Agents, and the Effectiveness of Development Interventions
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics·2022· 20 citedOpen Access
Replication Data for: "Social Incentives, Delivery Agents, and the Effectiveness of Development Interventions"
London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)·2022Open Access
Technology and Development
2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Bureaucracy and Development
Annual Review of Economics·2022· 99 citedOpen Access
Why do people stay poor?
London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)·2022· 114 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Oriana Bandiera(11), Imran Rasul(11), Munshi Sulaiman(10), Philippe Aghion(7), Timothy Besley(7), Selim Gulesci(7), Stephen J. Redding(6), Fabrizio Zilibotti(6), Timothy Besley(4), Benjamin Olken(4), Niklas Buehren(4), Markus Goldstein(4), Dave Donaldson(4), Michael Greenstone(4), Edward Miguel(3), Rohini Pande(3), Narayan Das(3), Clare Balboni(3), Guo Xu(3), Olivier Deschênes(3)