Elisabeth Sadoulet

Elisabeth Sadoulet (* 1945 ) is a French - American economist .

Career, research and teaching

Sadoulet studied at the University of Lyon , where it in 1966 with a licentiate in mathematics and in 1968 with a diploma in statistics graduated . In 1982 she gained at the University of Geneva the doctorate in economics and social sciences. She later moved to the University of California, Berkeley , where she was first lecturer and later assistant professor from 1985 . From 1995 she taught and researched as an associate professor at the university, where she was appointed full professor in 2001 .

Sadoulet is a member of the International Association of Agricultural Economics , of which she has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2009. She has also been Editor-in-Chief of the World Bank Economic Review since 2010 . In 2008 she co-founded the Center for Effective Global Action , initiated by Edward Miguel and based at the University of California, Berkeley , which uses impact assessment and other economic analysis methods to research sustainable social and economic developments, especially in poorer countries.

Sadoulet's work focuses on the areas of agricultural and development economics , including the effects of technological progress , microcredits , environmental protection and conditional cash transfer .

Web links

• Official homepage of the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
• Elisabeth Sadoulet in the IDEAS database