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Stefan Dercon
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 262
Citations - 19208
Stefan Dercon is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 259 publications receiving 17696 citations. Previous affiliations of Stefan Dercon include The Catholic University of America & International Food Policy Research Institute.
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When Can School Inputs Improve Test Scores
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a household optimization model relating household resources and cognitive achievement to school inputs, and test the predictions of the model for nonsalary cash grants to schools using a unique data set from Zambia.
Kagera Health and Development Survey 2010 Basic Information Document
Stefan Dercon,J. de Weerdt,Martina Kirchberger,Kathleen Beegle,Sonya Krutikova,Helene Bie Lilleør,Kalle Hirvonen +6 more
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Risk, Poverty, and Human Development: What Do We Know, What Do We Need to Know?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework to understand the links between risk, poverty, vulnerability, and human development, taking stock of the nature of the evidence available, and offer directions for future work with relevance for policy.
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Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on poor households' use of risk management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal risk-sharing mechanisms, and showed that risk and lumpiness limit the opportunities to use assets as insurance.
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Aid and agency in africa explaining food disbursements across ethiopian households, 1994-2004.
TL;DR: The authors used a principal-agent framework and data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey between 1994 and 2004 to understand biases in the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia and found that even when aid is systematically misallocated, aid recipients may match official classifications of needy households if agents deviate from allocation rules in ways that are difficult to monitor.