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New Resources

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

CSAE 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 Erlend Berg: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics: development economics, applied microeconomics, public service delivery, household finance, programme evaluation
Dr Sambit Bhattacharyya: Research Officer: economics of comparative development, institutions, and poverty
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
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: development economics, applied microeconometrics, family networks and insurance, HIV/AIDS and orphans, information technology and rural markets.
Dr Simon Quinn:Research Officer and Fellow of All Souls College: development economics; markets, firms and institutions in Africa; methodology concerning discrete choice and coarse information
Dr Justin Sandefur: Research Officer: labour economics, programme evaluation
Dr Francis Teal: Deputy Director CSAE: microeconomics of firms and labour markets
Dr Andrew Zeitlin: Research Officer: development economics, applied microeconomics

CSAE Support Team

Suzanne George: Administrative/Publications Officer
Hana Leithgoe: Administrative Officer
Richard Manning: Senior Research Associate
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 DPhil Students and thesis title

Swarnali Ahmed:
Meltem Aran: Measuring women’s revealed preferences and empowerment using experimental data.
Matej Bajgar: Firm-level export entry in developing countries
Silja Baller:
Patrick Barron: What causes peace to consolidate? Local politics and post-conflict violence in Indonesia
Bet Caeyers: Targeting effectiveness of Community Driven Development Projects (CDDs)
Stefano Caria: Social networks and learning in developing countries' labour markets.
Jacobus Cilliers: Conflict, coercion and collusion in warlord economies
Matthew Collin: Essays on the demand for formal land tenure and sibling nutritional inequality
Cosmina Dorobantu:
Paolo Falco: Occupational choices and their outcomes in African labour markets.
Simon Franklin: Low cost housing and informal settlements in African Cities
La-Bhus (Fah) Jirasavetakul: Labour markets in developing countries: Testing implications of an educational reform - Returns to education and occupational choices.
Jan Jozwik: Essays on technology adoption in developing countries
Gautam Kalani: Coping with risk in poor rural economies
Naureen Karachiwalla: Essays in Education Incentives
Martina Kirchberger: Sources of risk in developing countries.
Jonathan Lain: Risk, occupational choice and savings.
Christoph Lakner: Real wages and mobility in low- and high-income countries
Matthew Lowe: Public investment in developing countries
Oswaldo Molina Campodonico: Essays on the impact of property rights on poor households.
Ngoc Nguyen:
Kate Orkin: Making the grade: Why Ethiopian children fail at school, and how formal schools fail children
Ingo Outes-Leon: Essays on risk, health and poverty dynamics.
Anisha Sharma: Labour economics, economics of education, development economics.
Bilal Siddiqi: Essays in Institutions, Law and Conflict.
Abhijeet Singh: Empirical essays in development economics
Richard Stanley: War, peace, and child survival in Africa: A mixed methodological approach.
Gerhard Toews: Essays in resource economics
Ana Vaz: Interpersonal influence and network effects: Experimental evidence from Mozambique.
Jan von der Goltz: Essays in development and environmental economics
Kate Vyborny: Essays on government redistribution in developing countries.
Sébastien E J Walker: Essays in development macroeconomics.
Christian Westerlind Wigstrom: Regional integration organisations in Africa: Failed or misunderstood

Research Associates

Dr Manos Antoninis (EFA Global Monitoring Report): education.
Dr Simon Appleton (University of Nottingham).
Dr M Niaz Asadullah (School of Economics, Reading University and SKOPE, Oxford University): development economics, economics of education.
Dr Monazza Aslam (Visiting Research Associate, Institute of Education, University of London): economics of education and labour economics with a focus on Pakistan.
Dr S Bandyopadhyay (Queen Mary University of London and London School of Economics).
Dr Abigail Barr (University of Nottingham): behavioural and experimental economics applied to development issues.
Dr Alberto Behar (IMF): labour demand, skill-biased technical change, international trade.
Professor S Bhalotra (University of Bristol): applied microeconomics, health, education and gender and the family in low income countries.
Professor Arne Bigsten (University of Gothenburg): income distribution, poverty, industrial development, trade and aid.
Dr Markus Eberhardt: (University of Nottingham): cross-country empirics, productivity analysis.
Professor D Fielding (University of Otago): development macroeconomics and political economy.
Dr Augustin K Fosu (Deputy Director, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)).
Professor P Guillaumont (Professeur émérite à l'Université d'Auvergne et Président de la Ferdi).
Professor S Guillaumont Jeanneney (CERDI).
Professor Jan W Gunning (VU University Amsterdam).
K Hanson (London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine): health economics.
Christian Helmers: (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid): intellectual property, with a focus on patents, in advanced developing economies including Brazil, Chile, China, and India.
Dr John Hoddinott (IFPRI).
Dr Carolyn Jenkins Macroeconomics, regional integration, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Dr Bereket Kebede (University of East Anglia): development, behavioural and experimental economics; intra-household allocations; social preferences; payment for environmental services; health; land distribution; household energy demand.
Dr G Kambou (World Bank).
Dr Bill Kinsey (Ruzivo Trust Harare): economic anthropology.
Dr Pramila Krishnan (Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge): microeconomics of development.
Dr Ron Leung (Development Research Department, African Development Bank).
Dr Adeel Malik (Islamic Centre Lecturer in Development Economics, Dept of International Development (QEH); Globe Fellow in the economies of Muslim societies, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; Research Fellow in economics, St. Peter's College, Oxford).
Dr N A McCulloch, (IDS).
Dr Alexander Moradi Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex.
Professor B Ndulu (Central Bank of Tanzania).
Professor S O’Connell (Swarthmore College): macroeconomics.
Dr Remco Oostendorp (VU University, Amsterdam).
Dr Trudy Owens (University of Nottingham).
Professor T A Oyejide (University of Ibadan and AERC).
Dr John Page (The Brookings Institution, Washington DC).
Dr Catherine Pattillo (IMF).
Dr Catherine Porter (Economics Dept, University of Oxford).
Dr Natalie Quinn (Lady Margaret Hall Domus Fellow and Tutor in Economics, University of Oxford)
Dr R. Reinikka (World Bank): public economics and service delivery; micro foundations of growth; and macroeconomics of trade liberalization.
Dr Elizabeth J Z Robinson (IFPRI-Ghana and University of Gothenburg).
Dr Christian Rogg (Senior Economic Adviser, UK Department for International Development (DFID): asset portfolios and precautionary savings; fiscal policy and aid dependency.
Dr Pieter Serneels: (Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of East Anglia): micro, behavioural and labour economics.
Dr Måns Söderbom (University of Gothenburg): microeconomics; labour markets; productivity; investment; firm performance.
Dr Charles Chukwuma Soludo (Chairman, Board of Directors of the African Institute for Applied Economics, Nigeria).
Professor David Stasavage(New York University): political economy of institutions, democracy and education provision, regional integration, political geography.
Dr Kang Tan International macroeconomics, adaptive learning, applied econometrics
Nicolas Van de Sijpe (Dept Lecturer in Development Economics, Dept of International development [QEH]): Foreign aid and government behaviour.
Bruno Versailles Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
Dr Zaki Wahhaj (Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent) Gender and economics of the family, education, social norms, informal institutions, risk-sharing and microfinance.

Visiting Academics

Pieter Serneels, University of East Anglia, 9 Jan to Sep 2012

Policy Committee

Kofi Adjepong-Boateng	Standard Chartered, South Africa
Robert A. Annibale	Global Director, Citi Microfinance
Charles Badenoch	Chief Executive, World Vision
Mr Alex Cobham	Policy Manager, Christian Aid
Professor Paul Collier	Director CSAE, University of Oxford
Dr Jan Dehn	Portfolio Manager Ashmore Investment
Professor Stefan Dercon	Oxford Dept of International Development, University of Oxford
Dr Marcel Fafchamps	Deputy Director, CSAE, University of Oxford
Dr Greg Fischer	LSE, London
Joel Kibazo	Partner, JK Associates
Professor John B. Knight	Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Sir Tim Lankester	Chairman of the Council, LSHTM, University of London
Penny Lawrence	International Programmes Director, Oxfam
Richard Manning	Senior Research Associate, CSAE, University of Oxford
Sir Michael McWilliam	KCMG, Chair of Policy Committee
Dr Greg Mills	Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa
Dr David Pratten	Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Professor Kevin Roberts	Head of Department Dept. Economics, University of Oxford
Dr Francis Teal	Deputy Director, CSAE, University of Oxford