Professor of the Graduate School
Doctorat en sciences économiques et sociales, mention économétrie et statistiques, University of Geneva (1982).
Diplôme d'études approfondies in applied mathematics (Statistics), University of Lyon
Licence in mathematics, University of Lyon, France (1966)
de Janvry, Alain, Guojun He, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Shaoda Wang, and Qiong Zhang. 2023. “Subjective evaluation and bureaucratic performance: Experimental evidence from China.” American Economic Review 113(3): 1-35 VoxDev
de Janvry, Alain; Claire Duquennois, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2022. Labor Calendars and Rural Poverty: A case study for Malawi. Food Policy, 109
de Janvry, A., Sadoulet, E. 2022. The Puzzle of Lagging Sub-Saharan Africa Agriculture: Toward a Theory of Connectedness. In: de Gorter, H., McCluskey, J., Swinnen, J., Zilberman, D. (eds) Modern Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 55. Springer, Cham..
de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth, 2022. "Agriculture for Development: Analytics and Action". Annual Review of Resource Economics. 14 (1): 1–16.
Abate, Gashaw, Tanguy Bernard, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Carly Trachtman. 2021. “Introducing quality certification in staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Four Conditions for Successful Implementation.” Food Policy 105: 102173.
De Janvry A., Sadoulet E. (2021) Development Economics. Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition, Routledge, 572p.
Cai, Jing, Michael Carter, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2021. “Sparking permanent adoption of resilience-building agricultural technologies.” USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience text
Alejandro del Valle, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2020. Rules for Recovery: Impact of Indexed Disaster Funds on Shock Coping in Mexico. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(4): 164-95.
Cai, Jing, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2020. “Subsidy policies and insurance demand.” American Economic Review, 110(8): 2422-53.VoxDev
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2020. “How experimental research in agriculture has gone from lab to field.” World Development 127 (March).
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2020. “Using Agriculture for Development: Supply- and demand-side approaches.” World Development, 133, 105003
Das, Narayan, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2019. “Credit and Land Contracting: A Test of the Theory of Sharecropping" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(4): 1098-1114.
McIntosh, Craig, Felix Povel, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2019. Utility, Risk, and Demand for Incomplete Insurance: Lab Experiments with Guatemalan Cooperatives. Economic Journal 129: 2581-2607Das, Narayan, Alain de Janvry, Sakib Mahmood, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2018. “Migration as a Risky Enterprise: A Diagnostic for Bangladesh.” Forthcoming International Migration Review.
Ligon Ethan and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2018. “Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures”. World Development.109: 417-428.
Carter, Michael, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alexandros Sarris. 2017. “Index Insurance for Developing Country Agriculture: A Reassessment.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 9: 421-38.
Bernard, Tanguy , Alain de Janvry, Samba Mbaye, Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2017. “Expected Product Market Reforms and Technology Adoption by Senegalese Onion Producers”. Am J Agric Econ. 99(4): 1096–1115.
de Janvry, Alain, Sadoulet, Elisabeth and Suri, T., 2017. “Field Experiments in Developing Country Agriculture”. Handbook of Economic Field Experiments. Vol. 2. 427-466.
de Janvry, Alain, Andrew Dustan, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2016. “Flourish or Fail? The Risky Reward of Elite High School Admission in Mexico City,” Journal of Human Resources, 51(3).
Emerick, Kyle, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Manzoor Dar , 2016,. “Technological innovations, downside risk, and the modernization of agriculture,” American Economic Review, 106(6) pp. 1537-61.
Development Economics: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2015.
de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2015. "Sixty Years of Development Economics: What Have we Learned for Economic Development?" Revue d’Economie du Développement, 22: 9-19.
Al-Yriani Lamis, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2015. "The Yemen Social Fund for Development: An Effective Community-based Approach Amidst Political Instability." International Peacekeeping, 22(4): 321-336.
de Janvry, Alain, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Kyle Emerick, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2015. "Delinking land rights from land use: Certification and migration in Mexico." American Economic Review, 105(10): 3125-49.
Carter, M., de Janvry, A., Sadoulet, E., Sarris, A. 2015. "Index-based weather insurance for developing countries: A review of evidence and a set of propositions for up-scaling." Revue d’ Economie du Developpement, 23(1):5-57.
de Janvry, Alain, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2015 “Fair Trade and Free Entry: Can a Disequilibrium Market Serve as a Development Tool?” Review of Economics and Statistics. 97(3): 567-573.
Cai, Jing, Alain De Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2015. "Social Networks and the Decision to Insure." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(2): 81-108.
de Janvry, Alain, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2014. “Are land reforms granting complete property rights politically risky? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's certification program.” Journal of Development Economics, 110: 216-25.
de Janvry, Alain, Vianney Dequiedt, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2014. “The demand for insurance against common shocks.” Journal of Development Economics 106 (January): 227-238.
Dar, Manzoor, Alain de Janvry, Kyle Emerick, David Raitzer, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2013. “Flood-tolerant rice reduces yield variability and raises expected yield, differentially benefitting socially disadvantaged groups.” Scientific Reports 3, Article number 3315, November 22.
McIntosh, Craig, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Steve Buck, Tomas Rosada. 2013. “Reputation in a Public Goods Game: Taking the Design of Credit Bureaus to the Lab” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 95: 270–275.
Atkinson, Jesse, Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2013. "Prompting Microfinance Borrowers to Save: A Behavioral Experiment from Guatemala" Economic Development and Cultural Change 62(1): 21-64.
Dubois, Pierre, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2012. “Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico.” Journal of Labor Economics, 30(3): 555-90.
de Janvry, Alain, Frederico Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2012. “Local Electoral Accountability and Decentralized Program Performance” Review of Economics and Statistics, 94(3), 672-685 .
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2012. “Why agriculture remains the key to Sub-Saharan African development.” In The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa, Ernest Aryeetey, Shantayanan Devarajan, Ravi Kanbur, and Louis Kasekende, eds., Oxford University Press.
de Janvry, Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011. “Agriculture for development in sub-Saharan Africa: An update.” African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011. “The three puzzles of land reform.” Revue d’Economie du Développement 1: 107-114.
de Janvry, Alain, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011. “Subsistence farming as a safety net for food-price shocks.” Development in Practice 21(4-5): 472-80. Also in Marc J. Cohen and Melinda Smale, eds., Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People: Themes and Case Studies (Oxford: Routledge, 2012).
Lai, Fang, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Alain de Janvry, 2011. "Do School Characteristics and Teacher Quality Affect Student Performance? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Beijing Middle Schools." Journal of Human Resources, 46(1): 123–153.
de Janvry, Alain, Andrew Dustan, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011. "Recent Advances in Impact Analysis Methods for Ex-post Impact Assessments of Agricultural Technology: Options for the CGIAR." CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council.
de Janvry, Alain, Hideyuki Nakagawa, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2011. “Poverty, politics, and projects under community participation in Zambia.” In Community, Market, and State in Development, K. Otsuka and K. Kalirajan eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
de Janvry, Alain, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Renos Vakis. 2010. “Protecting Vulnerable Children From Uninsured Risks: Adapting Conditional Cash Transfer Programs To Provide Broader Safety Nets." Well-being and Social Policy 6(1).
Macours, Karen, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet, 2010. "Insecurity of Property Rights and Matching in the Tenancy Market." European Economic Review 54(7): 880-899.
de Janvry Alain and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. “Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: Additional Evidence.” The World Bank Research Observer 25: 1-20.
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. “Agriculture for Development in Africa: Business-as-Usual or New Departure.” Journal of African Economies 19(Supplement 2): ii7-ii39.
Araujo, Caridad, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. "Peer Effects in Employment: Results from Mexico's Poor Rural Communities." Canadian Journal of Development Studies Volume 30, number 3-4.
Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. "The Supply and Demand Side Impacts of Credit Market Information." Journal of Development Economics, 93(2): 173-188.
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet. 2010. “The Global Food Crisis and Guatemala: What Crisis and For Whom?” World Development 38(9).
de Janvry, Alain, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Sofia Villas-Boas, 2010. "Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing the Scarcity of Flu Vaccines?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 76(2):209-24.
