Justin Sandefur

CSAE and Queen's college

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Biography

Since completing my Ph.d. in 2008 I’ve worked as a research officer at the CSAE, where I split my time between four field-based projects:

  • decentralization in Kenya’s education sector, together with Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi and Germano Mwabu as well as colleagues from the University of Nairobi and Kenya National Examinations Council;

  • a randomized evaluation of a community justice program in rural Liberia with Bilal Siddiqi;

  • police and prison monitoring in Sierra Leone also with Bilal Siddiqi; and

  • urban land-titling initiative in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, together with Daniel Ayalew and Klaus Deininger of the World Bank and Stefan Dercon and Andrew Zeitlin at Oxford. 

I also took 6 months’ leave from the CSAE in 2008-09 to help the Tanzanian government design and launch a new National Panel Survey, that will monitor poverty dynamics, agricultural production, etc. for the next six years (and beyond, hopefully).
2009 research papers and presentations:

  • "Determinants of Educational Achievement in Kenya since the Introduction of FPE."  With Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi and Germano Mwabu.  In Adam, Collier and Ndung’u, Kenya: Policies for Prosperity.

  • "Free Primary Education in Kenya: Enrolment, Achievement and Local Accountability."  With Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi and Germano Mwabu.  Presented at the 2009 CSAE Conference.

  • "The Returns to Formality and Informality in Urban Africa."  CSAE Working Paper.  With Paolo Falco, Andrew Kerr, Neil Rankin and Francis Teal.

  • "The Rule of Law and the Rule of Men: Forum Shopping in Liberia’s Dualistic Legal System."  With Bilal Siddiqi and Andrew Zeitlin.  Presented at the 2009 CSAE Conference.

  • "Does Improving Market Access De-Industrialize Lagging Regions? Evidence from Ghanaian Manufacturing" With Somik Lall and Hyoung Gun Wang.  World Bank, mimeo, available online.