Stefan Dercon is a notable Micro-Development Economist who has, since 2004, been a Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Wolfson College

Wolfson College, Oxford

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. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”. Prior to this between 1993 and 2000 he was a Tenured Professor of Development Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is also now the Lead Academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre

International Growth Centre

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, which is a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Key themes

His research as focused on a range of subjects including:

• 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.

The work has typically involved the collection and analysis of longitudinal data sets - in particular he worked on:

• an examination of rural households

• Ethiopia (ERHS)
• Tanzania (KHDS)
• India (new ICRISAT VLS)
  • an examination of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (The Young Lives project).

Editorships

• Associate Editor, Economic Development and Cultural Change, since 2006.
• Editor, Journal of African Economics, since 2006.
• Member Editorial Board, World Bank Economic Review since 2006.
• Editor Oxford Economic Papers, 2002-2006.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Applied Economics, since 2001.
• Guest-editor of Special Issue on Risk and Vulnerability in Africa, Journal of African Economies
  Journal of African economies
  The Journal of African Economies is published five times a year by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. The journal publishes economic analyses, focused entirely on Africa...
  
  , 2004.

Other professional recognition

• Senior Fellow, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis on Development (BREAD) (by election)
• Member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN) (members nominated and elected by peers in secret ballot; currently consisting of the 61 most important development economists in Europe)
• Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (by invitation; CEPR is the leading research network of economics in Europe)

Noted works

• (2004) Insurance against Poverty, 2004, Oxford University Press (Edited volume)
• (2002) The Impact of Economic Reforms on Rural Households in Ethiopia, Washington D.C. World Bank.

External Links and Sources

http://erd.eui.eu/people/erd-2010-team/dercon-stefan/

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/stefan.dercon/

http://www.wider.unu.edu/aboutus/Former-staff/a-g/en_GB/dercon-stefan/

http://www.internationalgrowthcentre.org/index.php?q=node/138

http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/stefan.dercon/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20CV_2008_full_outside.pdf