Vivian Hoffmann
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Maryland

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Welcome to my website.   Most of my research is on household-level decision-making in developing countries.  Drafts of published and working papers can be found below and will be updated regularly.

1)   Food quality and safety in developing countries

Published papers:

Hoffmann, V. (2009) “What you don’t know can hurt you: micronutrient content and fungal contamination of food in developing countries”, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 38(2): 1-10.

Working papers:   

                              Growing their own: Unobservable quality as an explanation for self-provisioning

A Market for Lemons in Kenyan Maize (with S. Mutiga, R. Nelson, J. Harvey and M. Milgroom)

2)      Preventive health behavior

Published papers:

Hoffmann, V., C.B. Barrett, and D.R. Just.  (2009) “Do free goods stick to poor households?  Experimental evidence on insecticide treated mosquito nets”, World Development. 37(3): 607-617. 

Hoffmann, V. (2009) “Demand, retention, and intra-household allocation of free and purchased mosquito nets”, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. 99(2): 236-41

Coming soon:

Short-term Subsidies, Lasting Adoption? Habit Formation in Point-of-Use Water Purification in Kenya (with P. Dupas, M. Kremer, and A. Zwane)

3)      Discrimination and social norms

Working papers:

Measuring HIV Stigma: A Framed Field Experiment (with Kent Messer and Jacob Fooks)

4)      Gender and sanitation

Working papers:

Needs and Trends in Menstrual Management: A Global Analysis (with Ashwini Sebastian and Sarah Adelman)