Dr Stefan Dercon

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Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
The economics of the Arab Spring, CSAE working paper
Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption: Evidence from African countries, CSAE working paper
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo since Colonial Times, CSAE working paper
CSAE Newsletter 05, Autumn 2011
Political Origins of Financial Structure, CSAE working paper
Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products, iiG Briefing Paper

Professor of Development Economics and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford; Visiting Professor, Catholic University of Leuven

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Biography

I am a development economist applying microeconomics and statistics to problems of development. My interests are diverse, including research on risk and poverty, agriculture and rural institutions, political economy, childhood poverty, social and geographic mobility, micro-insurance, and measurement issues related to poverty and vulnerability. I teach a number of graduate economics courses at Oxford University. Much of my work involves the collection and analysis of longitudinal data sets, and I am closely involved in 7 ongoing longitudinal surveys focusing on rural households in Ethiopia (ERHS), Tanzania (KHDS), and India (new ICRISAT VLS), and on children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (Young Lives).

Beegle, K., S. Dercon and J. De Weerdt, ‘Orphanhood and human capital destruction: Is there persistence into adulthood?’, Demography, forthcoming.

Dercon, S., D.O. Gilligan, J. Hoddinott and T. Woldehanna, ‘The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 91 (4), 2009.

Dercon, S., ‘Rural poverty: Old challenges in new contexts’, World Bank Research Observer, vol. 24 (1), 2009.