Members
The research team and areas of specialisation
Dr Christopher S Adam: Reader in Development Economics and Official Fellow of St Cross College: macroeconomics and applied macroeconometrics
Dr Janine Aron: Research Officer: international economics, monetary economics, applied macroeconometrics on the South African economy
Dr Monazza Aslam: Research Officer: economics of education and microeconomics
Dr Abigail Barr: Research Officer: behavioural and experimental economics applied to development issues
Dr Alberto Behar: Research Officer: labour demand, cross-country growth spillovers, skill-biased technical change
Dr Erlend Berg: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics
David L Bevan: Fellow of St John’s College: public economics and macroeconomics
Dr Tessa Bold: Research Officer: Development economics, applied economic theory
Professor Paul Collier: Director CSAE, Professor of Economics, Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College: Governance in low-income countries, political economy of democracy, growth in Africa, civil war, aid, globalisation and poverty
Professor Stefan Dercon: Professor of Development Economics and Fellow of Wolfson College: microeconomics, poverty and welfare analysis
Dr Markus Eberhardt: Research Officer. ESRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow.
Professor Marcel Fafchamps: Deputy Director CSAE, Professor in the Department of Economics and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College: applied microeconomics
Dr Anke Hoeffler: Research Officer: macroeconomics, growth and economics of conflict
Dr Kim Lehrer: Research Officer: development economics, applied microeconometrics, project evaluation, the economics of education, labour economics, and gender issues
Professor John B Knight: Professor of Economics and Fellow of St Edmund Hall: labour and human resource economics
Dr Christopher Ksoll: Research Officer:
Dr Justin Sandefur: Research Officer: labour economics, programme evaluation
Dr Francis Teal: Deputy Director CSAE: microeconomics of firms and labour markets
Dr Pedro Vicente: Research Officer: Corruption, Microeconomics of institutional/political issues in development
Dr Andrew Zeitlin: Research Officer: development economics, applied microeconomics
CSAE support team
Suzanne George: Administrative/Publications Officer (on maternity leave)
Hana Leithgoe: Administrative/Publications Officer
Karin Loudon: Communications Officer
Rose Page: Administrator
Richard D W Payne: Information Services Officer
Martina Siertsema: Personal Assistant to the Director and Administrative Officer
Gail Wilkins: Administrative/Finance Officer
CSAE research students and thesis title
Meltem Aran: Measuring women’s revealed preferences and empowerment using experimental data.
Ingrid Boxall: Experimental investigations into the attitudes towards and effects of income inequality.
Rulof Burger: Changes in the South African wage structure since political transition.
Bet Caeyers: Targeting effectiveness of Community Driven Development Projects (CDDs)
Daniel Clarke: Essays on ambiguity, risk and poverty.
Matthew Collin: Essays on sibling nutritional inequality and ethnic competition
Paolo de Renzio: Aid, domestic politics and the quality of institutions: The political economy of budget reforms in aid-dependent countries.
Paolo Falco:Risk aversion and occupational choices: Experimental evidence from urban Ghana.
Ghada Fayad: Remittances, foreign aid and oil in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Christian Helmers: Spillovers, innovation and firm performance.
Fadel Jaoui: Essays in international macroeconomics.
Naureen Karachiwalla: Essays in Education Incentives
Andrew Kerr: Informality and its implications for poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Martina Kirchberger: Managing health risks caused by changing climatic conditions, food price shocks and epidemics through index-based health insurance products.
Sofya Krutikova: Essays on causes and consequences of household poverty.
Yuya Kudo: Occupational choices, small-scale businesses and economic development.
Oswaldo Molina Campodonico: Essays on the impact of property rights on poor households.
Priscilla Muthoora: Public finance and growth in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sean O’Leary: European sugar reform and its impact on trade and poverty in ACP countries.
Ingo Outes-Leon: Essays in risk, nutrition and poverty dynamics.
Patrick Premand: On risk, poverty and economic mobility.
Natalie Quinn: Measuring poverty over time.
Simon Quinn: Credit and investment in Moroccan manufacturing.
Alan Sanchez: Essays on child development and cognitive skills formation in Peru.
Bilal Siddiqi: Essays in Institutions, Law and Conflict.
Richard Stanley: Expectations of recovery: A microlevel analysis of the impact of conflict and service delivery on child health in Sierra Leone, 2000–08.
Gerhard Toews: The determinants of Kazakhstani economic performance: the role of institutions and oil prices
Nicolas Van de Sijpe: Foreign aid and government behaviour.
Ana Vaz: Essays on Gender and Development
Bruno Versailles: Aid and regional integration
Jan von der Goltz: Essays in development and environmental economics.
Research associates
Dr Manos Antoninis (Oxford Policy Management): education and labour markets.
Dr Simon Appleton (Nottingham University)
Dr M Niaz Asadullah (Reading University and SKOPE, Oxford University): development economics
Professor J-P Azam (University of Toulouse), Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College: francophone and lusophone Africa.
Dr S Bandyopadhyay(QEH, OXford): Development Economics
Dr S Bhalotra (Universities of Cambridge and Bristol): applied microeconomics, health, education and gender and the family in low income countries.
Professor Arne Bigsten (University of Gothenburg): rural development and Kenya.
Professor D Fielding (Leicester University): macroeconomics.
Professor P Guillaumont (CERDI)
Professor S Guillaumont Jeanneney (CERDI)
Professor Jan W Gunning (Free University of Amsterdam)
K Hanson (London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine): health economics.
Dr John Hoddinott (IFPRI)
Dr Catherine Jenkins Macroeconomics, regional integration, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Dr Bereket Kebede, (UEA)
Dr G Kambou (ADB)
Dr Bill Kinsey (Free University of Amsterdam): economic anthropology.
Dr Pamela Krishnan (Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge): labour economics.
Dr Adeel Malik: Lecturer in Development Economics, QEH
Dr N A McCulloch, (IDS)
Dr Alexander Moradi: Lecturer,
School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex
Professor B Ndulu (World Bank)
Professor S O’Connell (Swarthmore College): macroeconomics.
Dr Remco Oostendorp (Free University, Amsterdam)
Dr Trudy Owens: (Nottingham University)
Professor T A Oyejide (University of Ibadan and AERC)
Dr John Page: (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC)
Dr Catherine Pattillo (IMF)
Dr R. Reinikka (World Bank): macroeconomics of trade liberalisation.
Dr Elizabeth J Z Robinson (Tanzania): environment, resource, and agricultural economics
Dr Christian Rogg: asset portfolios, precautionary savings and risk management.
Dr Pieter Serneels: microeconomics, behavioural and labour economics
Dr Mans Söderbom: Microeconomics; labour markets; productivity; investment; firm performance
Dr C Soludo (University of Nigeria, Nsukka): Nigeria.
Dr D Stasavage (London School of Economics): politics of macroeconomic policy, political economy of emerging markets, monetary integration, corruption and development.
Dr Kang Tan: International macroeconomics, adaptive learning, applied econometrics
Professor John Toye: Senior Research Associate, Queen Elizabeth House: development economics and the political economy of development
Visiting academics
Sarmistha Pal, Brunel University, January to March 2008Joshua Olusegun Ajetomobi, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria, January to March 2008
Brian Kahn, South African Reserve Bank, February 2008
Seidu Al-Hassan, Dept. of Economics and Entrepreneurship Development, University for Development Studies, Ghana, April to June 2008
Samuel Fambon, Faculty of Economic and Management, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon, April to June 2008
Hyesung Kim, Tufts University, US, May to August 2008
John Page, World Bank, US, May to December 2008
Issidor Noumba, University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon, January to April 2009
Miriam Omolo, University of Nairobi, Kenya, January to April 2009
Olayinka Idowu Kareem, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, October to December 2009
Policy committee
| Kofi Adjepong-Boateng | First Africa, South Africa |
| Professor David Anderson | Director, African Studies, St Antony's College, University of Oxford |
| Robert A. Annibale | Global Director, Citi Microfinance |
| Charles Badenoch | Chief Executive, World Vision |
| David L. Bevan | University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow of St John's College |
| Dr Robin Burgess | Co-Director EOPP STICERD, LSE |
| Mr Alex Cobham | Policy Manager, Christian Aid |
| Professor Paul Collier | Director CSAE |
| Professor Stefan Dercon | Dept of Development Studies, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford |
| Dr Marcel Fafchamps | Deputy Director, CSAE |
| Colin Goodwin | Global Minerals and Metals Corps Ltd |
| Joel Kibazo | Partner, JK Associates |
| Professor John B. Knight | Director, Department of Economics, University of Oxford |
| Sir Tim Lankester | President, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford |
| Penny Lawrence | International Programmes Director, Oxfam |
| Sir Michael McWilliam | KCMG, Chair of Policy Committee |
| Professor James Malcomson | Head, Department of Economics, Oxford |
| Dr Greg Mills | Director, The Brenthurst Foundation |
| Dr Francis Teal | Deputy Director, CSAE. |