Deputy Director, CSAE
Reader, Department of Economics
Fellow, Mansfield College
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Biography
Born in Belgium, Marcel Fafchamps studied Law and Economics at the Université
Catholique de Louvain before joining the International Labour Organisation
in Ethiopia. Initially posted in Addis Ababa for two years in a rural development
policy advisory role, he stayed on for close to five years, and then went
to Berkeley in 1986 where he got a D.Phil. degree in agricultural and resource
economics. He joined the Stanford Food Research Institute in 1989 where
he stayed for seven years, teaching development economics and advising
students on all aspects of their research. After the closure of the Institute
in 1995, he spent three years in the Department of Economics at Stanford
where he taught econometrics and development economics. He spent
a sabbatical year in the research department of the World Bank in 1998/99.
Dr Fafchamps joined the Centre for the Study of African Economies in July
1999 as Deputy Director. He is also a Reader in the Department of Economics
and a Professoral Fellow at Mansfield College. His recent research focuses
on the risk coping strategies of the poor, market institutions, intrahousehold
issues, and the spatial division of labor.
