Dec
2
Impact of electricity reliability on small business
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded two new research grants on the project [...]
Jacopo Bonan
Jacopo Bonan is a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Milano. After his graduate studies in economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, he obtained the MSc in Economics at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca and has been research fellow at the Catholic University of Milan for two years.
His research focuses on Development Economics with an emphasis on energy access and efficiency, health, agriculture, formal and informal financial institutions. He is specialized in the design of impact evaluation studies and coordinated several randomized controlled trials in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Within COBHAM, he worked on the role of behavioural interventions to improve energy access and efficiency in developing countries.
He loves travelling and trekking.
Post Published by Jacopo Bonan
May
22
How to reduce non-payment for electricity
I just came back from Karachi, where we will investigate in the next year how to improve [...]
Mar
23
Switch bulbs to increase profits
Certain firms could dramatically increase their profits... by just switching to energy [...]
Dec
12
Get to know your nudge
From 2011 to 2013, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California automatically [...]
Oct
5
Cheaper than your climate policy
Financial incentives for forest owners in Uganda to keep their forest intact brought the rate [...]
Oct
1
Social Interaction and Technology Adoption
In this experiment in Mali, we find that women purchase and use cookstoves more when they [...]
Sep
21
Junior Farmer Field Schools in Uganda
We find evidence that this programme had positive effects on students’ agricultural knowledge [...]
Jul
18
Access to modern energy: a review of barriers, drivers and impacts
Jacopo and Massimo just published a new paper reviewing the existing literature on the barriers [...]
May
19
Nudge comes to shove
An experimental, iterative, data-driven approach to policymaking is gaining ground in many [...]
Apr
10
Access to energy in rural Africa
On-grid solutions are still very costly and inefficient, while off-grid options are not able to [...]
Feb
12
Efficiency and effectiveness in Policy Making
Need higher tax compliance rates? The value added of behavioural insights in Policy Making is [...]
Dec
16
Pay electricity as you go
Giovanna and Jacopo study the business sustainability of supplying off-grid areas in Pakistan [...]
Oct
13
Consumers, Economics and Energy Systems
Massimo will participate next Monday in a workshop focused on Cobham core topics...
Jul
21
Field experiments: impact evaluation or test of theory?
Starting from the 90’s an increasing number of economists tried to overcome the problem of the [...]
Mar
18
Keeping up with the Joneses
How many times we tend to buy products that our peers own, being it a smartphone, an app or a [...]
Feb
3
The vicious cycle of electricity
Access to electricity has risen dramatically – together with household incomes, [...]