Olivier Sterck

Associate Professor and Senior Research Officer (ODID)

Researchers

Olivier Sterck is Associate Professor and Senior Research Officer. He is the lead economist of the Refugee Economies Programme (REP) at the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC).

Before joining the RSC, Olivier was postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the University of Oxford. His research is multidisciplinary in scope, building bridges between development economics, health economics, and refugee studies. Olivier's research uses applied econometrics and economic modelling to study refugee economies.

With colleagues from the REP, he has been collecting and analysing data on more than 15,000 refugees and members of host populations in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. In partnership with the World Food Programme, Olivier has been analysing the impact of various cash transfer models on the socio-economic outcomes of refugee households and refugee businesses in the Kakuma refugee camp and the Kalobeyei settlement.

For a complete list of publications, see Olivier's personal website.

Research

Selected Publications

Le Polain, M., Sterck, O., Nyssens, M. (2017). Interest Rate in Savings Groups: Thrift or Threat? World Development, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.09.001

Sterck, O. (2017). What Goes Wrong with the Allocation of Domestic and International Resources for HIV? Health Economics, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3550

Colombo, A., D’Aoust, O., Sterck, O. (2017). From Civil War to Electoral Violence. Evidence from Burundi. Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming. https://oliviersterck.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/main.pdf

Manning, R., Sterck, O. (2017). Rethinking international and domestic financing for HIV in low and middle income countries. Development Policy Review, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12232

Baele, S. J., Lewis, D., Hoeffler, A., Sterck, O. C., & Slingeneyer, T. (2017). The Ethics of Security Research: An Ethics Framework for Contemporary Security Studies. International Studies Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekx003

D’Aoust O., Sterck, O., Verwimp, P. (2016). Who Benefited from Burundi’s Demobilization Program?. The World Bank Economic Review, lhw033. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhw033

D'Aoust, O., & Sterck, O. (2016). Who Benefits from Customary Justice? Rent seeking, Bribery and Criminality in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of African Economies, 25(3), 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejw001

Sterck, O., Roser, M., Ncube, M., Thewissen, S. (2016). Allocation of development assistance for health: is the predominance of national income justified? Health Policy and Planning, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw173

Remme, M., Siapka, M., Sterck, O., Ncube, M., Watts, C., Vassal, A. (2016). Financing the HIV response in sub-Saharan Africa from domestic sources: moving beyond a normative approach. Social Science & Medicine, 169, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.09.027

Sterck, O. (2016). Natural Resources and the Spread of HIV/AIDS: Curse or Blessing? Social Science & Medicine, 150(2), 271-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.09.023

Baele, S. J., Sterck, O. C., & Meur, E. (2016). Theorizing and Measuring Emotions in Conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(4), 718-747. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002714550083

Collier, P., Manning, R., & Sterck O. (2015). From Death Sentence to Debt Sentence. Finance & Development (IMF), 52(4), 28-31. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/12/collier.htm

Baele S., Sterck, O., (2015). Diagnosing the Securitisation of Immigration at the EU Level: A New Method for Stronger Empirical Claims. Political Studies, 63(5), 1120-1139. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12147

Sterck, O. (2014). HIV/AIDS and Fatalism: Should Prevention Campaigns Disclose the Transmission Rate of HIV? Journal of African Economies, 23 (1), 53-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejt018

CSAE Working Papers