THE DEVELOPMENT FIELD AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

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Faculty Members:

Agricultural and Resource Economics Irma Adelman (Emeritus) Income distribution, poverty, and economic development Interactions between economic and social systems in economic development Alain de Janvry Regional development and rural development Land markets and land reform Common property resource management Ethan Ligon Mutual insurance in village economies Common property resources Agricultural contracts David Roland-Holst Trade and development Energy and climate change Livestock and livelihoods Elisabeth Sadoulet Educational programs and impact analysis Payment for environmental services Microfinance institutions

Economics Pranab Bardhan Chang-Tai Hsieh Ted Miguel Haas Business School Paul Gertler David Levine

Current Students in the Development Field:
  Job Market Candidates: (Complete list of candidates from ARE)

• Xiangyi Meng (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
  
  Dissertation Topic: Consumption Inequality, Risk Sharing and Transportation Costs in Opening China

  Other Students:

• Sarah Baird (Advisor: Ethan Ligon)
  Consumption under Uncertainty: The Implications of Local Price Variation in Viet Nam
• Celine Ferre (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
  Impact of volatility and macroeconomic crises on individual and household welfare.Claudio Ferraz (Advisor: Ann Harrison)
  Globalization and Environment: Measuring the Effects of Trade and Foreign Investment on the Environmental Behavior of Manufacturing Firms in Brazil.
• Armando Gonzalez (Advisors: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)
  Rural economic development and contract farming in Central America