Prof Ben D'Exelle

My research aims to improve our understanding of individual behaviour and decision-making, and how they are 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 research in Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, the Dominican Republic and Zanzibar.

I am member of the following research groups or institutes at the University of East Anglia (UEA): Center for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences (CBESS), Behavioural Economics, Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics (BEDERG), Environment, Resources and Conflict, CSERGE, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 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 co-direct the MSc Impact Evaluation for Global Development, the MSc Policy, Behaviour and Data for Global Development, and the MSc Data Science for Global 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.