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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

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74
Citations
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367
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40

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  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stefan Dercon is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to social sciences research, particularly in areas related to poverty, education, and child welfare. Their work spans a variety of key topics including poverty, education, child welfare, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, income inequality, employment and welfare studies, migration and labor dynamics, child nutrition and water access, and the role of ICT in developing communities.

Their recent publications include:

  • Aspirations, Poverty, and Education. Evidence from India, 2020, The Journal of Development Studies
  • Impacts of industrial and entrepreneurial jobs on youth: 5-year experimental evidence on factory job offers and cash grants in Ethiopia, 2022, Journal of Development Economics
  • Anticipatory cash transfers in climate disaster response, 2020, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Cash transfers in adolescence: a developmental perspective, 2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Stefan Dercon collaborates frequently with a number of researchers including Ashley Pople, Daniel Rogger, Giulio Schinaia, Yetsedaw Emagne, and Pieter Serneels. This range of collaboration reflects the interdisciplinary nature of their research projects.

Their publications have appeared notably in:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Development Policy Review
  • The Journal of Development Studies
  • Journal of Development Economics

Stefan Dercon has also authored books published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, including:

  • Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi, 2024
  • The Earlier the Better? Cash Transfers for Drought Response in Niger, 2025

Their main fields of study predominantly cover social sciences with a particular focus on subfields such as safety research, sociology and political science, general economics, econometrics and finance, education, and general health professions.

Best Publications

  • Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets

    Stefan Dercon

  • The effect of environmental change on human migration

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Luc Christiaensen

  • Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Luc Christiaensen;Luc Christiaensen

  • African agriculture in 50 years: smallholders in a rapidly changing world?

    Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon

  • GROWTH AND SHOCKS: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL ETHIOPIA

    Stefan Dercon

  • Vulnerability, seasonality and poverty in Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Pramila Krishnan

  • In Sickness and in Health: Risk Sharing within Households in Rural Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Pramila Krishnan

  • Risk, Crop Choice, and Savings: Evidence from Tanzania

    Stefan Dercon

  • The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages

    Stefan Dercon;Daniel O. Gilligan;John Hoddinott;Tassew Woldehanna

  • Risk-sharing networks and insurance against illness

    Joachim De Weerdt;Stefan Dercon

  • Wealth, Risk and Activity Choice: Cattle in Western Tanzania

    Stefan Dercon;Stefan Dercon

  • Income portfolios in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania: Choices and constraints

    Stefan Dercon;Pramila Krishnan

  • Shocks and Consumption in 15 Ethiopian Villages, 1999–2004

    Stefan Dercon;John Hoddinott;Tassew Woldehanna

  • Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania : Evidence from a Tracking Survey

    Kathleen Beegle;Joachim De Weerdt;Stefan Dercon

  • Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa

    Arne Bigsten;Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon;Marcel Fafchamps

  • Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting

    Arne Bigsten;Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon;Marcel Fafchamps

  • School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

    Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

  • School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores †

    Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

  • Vulnerability: A Micro Perspective

    Stefan Dercon

  • Group-Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania.

    Stefan Dercon;Joachim De Weerdt;Tessa Bold;Alula Pankhurst

  • On Market Integration and Liberalisation: Method and Application to Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon

  • Risk-sharing Networks and Insurance against illness

    Stefan Dercon;Joachim De Weerdt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Willem Gunning
Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paul Collier
Paul Collier University of Oxford
Arne Bigsten
Arne Bigsten University of Gothenburg
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
Måns Söderbom
Måns Söderbom University of Gothenburg
Marcel Fafchamps
Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University
Francis Teal
Francis Teal University of Oxford
Jishnu Das
Jishnu Das Georgetown University
Richard Black
Richard Black University of Birmingham

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