Staff

Dr. Maarten Voors

Position(s):

• Isaac Newton Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact information:

Telephone: +44 (0)1223 (3)37156
Email: mjv32

Research interests:

• Economics of civil conflict, institutions, development, conservation, micro-econometrics, policy evaluation, experimental methods
• Current work includes a large randomised control trial in Sierra Leone aimed at poverty alleviation and nature conservation in collaboration with Gola Forest Programme and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Publications:

Voors, M., T. Turley, A. Kontoleon, J. List, and E. Bulte, 2012. Behavior in Context-Free Experiments is not Predictive of Behavior in the Field: Evidence from Public Good Experiments in rural Sierra Leone, Economics Letters, In Press

Voors, M.J., E.E.M. Nillesen, P. Verwimp, E.H. Bulte, B.W. Lensink and D.P. van Soest, 2011. Violent Conflict and Behavior: a Field Experiment in Burundi, American Economic Review, In Press

Voors, M., T. Turley, A. Kontoleon, J. List, and E. Bulte, 2011. Public Good Games and Behavior in the Forest: Evidence from Sierra Leone. American Economic Review (papers and proceedings), 101(3): 329-33

Mokuwa, E,.M. Voors, E. Bulte and P. Richards, 2011. Peasant grievance and insurgency in Sierra Leone: Judicial serfdom as a driver of conflict. African Affairs, 110(440): 339-366

Voors, M.J., Bulte, E.H. and R. Damania, 2011. Higher Incomes and Corruption in Africa: Does a Virtuous Cycle exist?, Journal of African Economies, 20 (3): 395-418

Voors, M.J. and M. D'Haese, 2010. Smallholder dairy sheep production and market channel development: An institutional perspective of rural Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Journal of Dairy Science, 93: 3869-3879

Working Papers

Voors, M.J. and Bulte, E.H. (2011) Conflict and the Evolution of Institutions: Unbundling Institutions at the Local Level in Burundi

Voors, M.J. and Bulte, E.H. (2009) Unbundling Institutions at the Local Level: Conflict, Institutions and Income in Burundi.

Voors, M.J. and Bulte, E.H. (2009) Geography versus Institutions as Drivers of Underdevelopment in Africa

Nillesen, E.M. and Voors, M.J. (2009) Can Aid Improve Governance in the Short Term?

Bundervoet, T., Nillesen, E., Verwimp, P. and Voors, M. (2009) Integrating Conflict Questions in a Household Survey: An Example from Burundi, Households in Conflict Network, IDS University of Sussex

Ndayishimiye, N., Butoyi, J., Verwimp, P., Bundervoet, T., Nillesen, L. and Voors, M. (2009). The Evolution of Welfare of Rural Households in Post-Conflict Burundi: Results from the Priority Survey Panel 1998-2007. ISTEEBU and Antwerp University (report in French)