Prof Ben D'Exelle

My research aims to improve our understanding of individual behaviour and decision-making, and how this is influenced by social interaction within households and communities. I apply this to a variety of domains, such as health, development, labour, gender, environment, and agriculture. Most of my research is conducted in low- and middle-income countries, driven by the need to develop more effective policies that tackle the most urgent problems in these countries. I make ample use of experiments, either in the form of randomized control trials, or lab experiments conducted online, in computer labs or in the field. I have completed projects in Uganda, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Peru. I am involved in new fieldwork in Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, and the Dominican Republic.

I am member of the following research groups or institutes at UEA: Center for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences (CBESS), Behavioural Economics, Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics (BEDERG), Environment, Resources and Conflict, CSERGE, and the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. I am also an IZA fellow and a full member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN).

I teach micro-economics, econometrics and applied methods in impact evaluation, and I direct the MSc Impact Evaluation for International Development. 

In 2020, I won the ESRC impact prize under the category “Business and Enterprise Impact”. Click here for a video on the impact work.