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Personal Webpage    Stefan Dercon

I am a development economist applying microeconomics and statistics to problems of development. My interests are diverse, including research on risk and poverty, agriculture and rural institutions, political economy, childhood poverty, social and geographic mobility, micro-insurance, and measurement issues related to poverty and vulnerability.  I teach a number of graduate economics courses at Oxford University. Much of my work involves the collection and analysis of longitudinal data sets, and I am closely involved in 7 ongoing longitudinal surveys focusing on rural households in Ethiopia (ERHS), Tanzania (KHDS), and India (new ICRISAT VLS), and on children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (Young Lives).

 

I have formal links to:

Department of International Development, Oxford University, where I am Professor of Development Economics;

Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, the main focal point for my research on Africa;

Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (I am the Director of Poverty Research);

Wolfson College, Oxford University, where I am a Professorial Fellow;

Department of Economics, Oxford University, where I am a member of the sub-faculty member;

Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth (an Oxford-LSE research programme with Southern partners), which I coordinate from Oxford;

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), of which I am Research Fellow;

Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), of which I am a Senior Fellow;

EUDN (European Development Research Network) of which I am a Member.

                                                                                                                            

Prospective students interested in research and study of the economics for development can find more information here.

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