Kevin Donovan

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management

Kevin Donovan is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management and an affiliate of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). His research focuses on both the macro and microeconomics of development, primarily studying constraints to firm growth in the developing world. Some of his recent work considers the aggregate impact of risk among farmers, and also the importance of inter-firm knowledge transfers among microenterprise owners.

Recent work by Kevin Donovan

Labour market dynamics in low- and middle-income countries

How do labour market dynamics vary with development?

Labour Markets

Kevin Donovan Todd Schoellman

Published 27.02.24

Bridging the gap: Reducing rural isolation with new infrastructure

New bridges generated a 19% internal rate of return by mitigating the loss of wage income due to floods and inducing spillovers on farm productivity

Infrastructure

Wyatt Brooks Kevin Donovan

Published 07.09.18

Mentorship helps Kenyan microenterprises profit

Entrepreneurs with mentors enjoy an increase in profits and manage supplier costs better. Mentorship is also more cost effective than business classes.

Firms

Wyatt Brooks Kevin Donovan Terrence Johnson

Published 19.09.17

Kevin Donovan

Recent work by Kevin Donovan

Labour market dynamics in low- and middle-income countries

Bridging the gap: Reducing rural isolation with new infrastructure

Mentorship helps Kenyan microenterprises profit