Stefan Dercon
D.Phil., University of Oxford
Professor of Development Economics
College or Institution: Wolfson College
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Research Interests
Summary: Development economics.
I am currently mainly focusing on the way exposure to risk and the lack of appropriate market and policy responses cause poverty traps. I am involved in the development of three longitudinal data sets at the household level, in India, Tanzania and Ethiopia that uniquely follow the same individuals and all their offspring over long periods of time, in one case currently up to 30 years. This allows me to use applied theoretical and empirical tools to explore how risk and shocks shape their life trajectories.
Courses Taught at the University
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- Undergraduate - Economics of Developing Countries {REL[3749][gradcourses]av38kCzPREL}{REL[3750][gradcourses]av38kCzPREL}{REL[3751][gradcourses]av38kCzPREL}
Research Group(s)
Recent Working Papers
- Growth and chronic poverty: Evidence from rural communities in Ethiopia (2011)
- Social Protection, Efficiency and Growth (2011)
- Beyond fatalism - an empirical exploration of self-efficacy and aspirations failure in Ethiopia (2011)
- Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children (2010)
- Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence (2010)
- Contract Design in Insurance Groups (2009)
- Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2008)
- Vulnerability to Poverty (2007)
- The impact of roads and agricultural extension on consumption growth and poverty in fifteen Ethiopian villages (2007)
- Social Interactions in Growing Bananas: Evidence from a Tanzanian Village (2007)
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