Andrew Dillon is an assistant professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics.  He is currently involved in randomized evaluations of projects in Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Ghana, Mali and Nigeria.  This current research includes work on household labor supply and education decisions, the agriculture, health and nutrition nexus, and social networks.   Andrew holds a PhD in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 1999-2001.  Before coming to Michigan State, he was a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. 

Professional Interests

• Agriculture, Health and Nutrition
• Labor
• Social Networks

Selected Publications

Beaman, Lori and Dillon, Andrew. (2012) “Do household definitions matter in survey design? Results from a randomized survey experiment in Mali,” Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.

Dillon, Andrew & Bardasi, Elena & Beegle, Kathleen & Serneels, Pieter. (2012) “Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics” Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.

Dillon, Andrew. (2011)  “The Effect of Irrigation on Poverty Reduction, Asset Accumulation and Informal Insurance:  Evidence from Northern Mali,” World Development, 39 (12):  2165-2175. 

Bardasi, Elena & Beegle, Kathleen & Dillon, Andrew & Serneels, Pieter. (2011) "Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania," World Bank Economic Review, 25(3): 418-447.

Dillon, Andrew; Mueller, Valerie; Salau, Sheu (2011). “Migratory Responses to Agricultural Risk in Northern Nigeria,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(4): 1048-1061.

Dillon, Andrew; Manohar Sharma, Xiaobo Zhang (2011).  “Estimating the Impact of Rural Investments in Nepal” Food Policy, 36 (2): 250–258.

Dillon, Andrew.  (2011). “Do differences in the scale of irrigation projects generate different impacts on poverty and production? Evidence from large and small-scale projects in Northern Mali” Journal of Agricultural Economics, 62 (2): 474-492.

Dillon, Andrew (2010).  “Measuring Child Labor:  Comparisons between Hours Data and Subjective Measures,” Research in Labor Economics 31: 135-169. 

Funded Research Projects

• Experimental Estimates of the Impact of Malarial Infection on Agricultural Worker Earnings, Labor Supply and Productivity with Oladele Akogun (Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria), Jed Friedman (World Bank) and Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia)
• Alatona Irrigation Project (Mali) Impact Evaluation with Lori Beaman (Northwestern University) for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Enhanced Homestead Food Production Evaluation in Burkina Faso with Deanna Olney (IFPRI) for Helen Keller International
• El Salvador and Ghana Child Labor Impact Evaluations with Furio Rosati and Jacob de Hoop (Understanding Children’s Work Program)