NOVEMBER 2019 - NOW:
Post-doctoral Researcher - ECON Research Group at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Projects:
Risk-Preferences and Protective Behaviours (COVID19) - more to come soon.
"Alcohol Consumption among Youngsters: Understanding Behaviors and Preferences" (Working-Paper in process - expected June 2020)
Consumption of alcohol among youngsters is recognized to be high and to have serious health consequences (Murray, 2016). In particular, University life is linked to extreme drinking patterns which every year are reported to lead to serious health consequences (including death) and might negatively affect educational outcomes and life trajectories. Because it concentrates peer pressures and the need for social recognition, University might also exacerbate existing drinking patterns or even change them. Alcohol consumers can be categorised into four groups: non-drinkers, social drinkers, binge drinkers and heavy drinkers. While most research has been concentrated on dividing (and analysing) the population of secondary school pupils across these four categories, little is known for University students. Moreover the current knowledge regarding the factors influencing this distribution and their relative importance do not enable to derive efficient policy recommendations. These factors might include family background, but also individual capacity to cope with problems, stress, pressures and the type of strategies (social support, problem solving or avoidance) (Amirkhan, 1990). In particular, evidence shows that ineffective coping skills and alcohol use among adolescents are positively correlated (Catanzaro and Laurent 2004 and Hasking and Oei 2004).
"Consumers' Preferences for Local and Circular Food Items: identifying attitude-behaviour gaps" (Working-Paper in process and expected by July 2020 - data processing following the field experiment (done) has been delayed because of COVID19 outbreak)
We combine a discrete choice experiment and a field experiment to understand consumers preferences and their actual consumption of local and circular food once these are signalled as such.
We are particularly interested in measuring and understanding the extent of social desirability bias in self-reported answers when the topic is characterised by social norms.
This project is grounded in a collaboration with Le Champignon de Bruxelles and Färm.
MAY 2015 - MAY 2019:
Post-doctoral Researcher - SFERE Research Group - Division of BioEconomics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium
Projects:
"Sustainable Finance for Sustainable Farming and Fisheries" (SUFISA) - H2020 project commissioned by DG Agri.
The purpose of SUFISA was to identify sustainable practices and policies in the agricultural, fish and food sectors that support the sustainability of primary producers in a context of multi-dimensional policy requirements, market uncertainties and globalisation.
To do so, the heterogeneity of conditions and strategies developed by European producers was analysed by qualitative and quantitative analysis of cases studied in WP2. The large array of case studies, both in terms of sectoral and regional dimensions, gave us a good overview of the types and prevalence of conditions and the subsequent strategies developed at producer and system level. In total, 22 case-studies were analysed, covering 11 countries and 7 sectors. Next, the impact of market imperfections and policy requirements on the efficiency and performance of primary producers was analysed in WP3. Finally, four future scenarios were developed and the resulting effects on market imperfections were analysed with stakeholders in WP4.
A short final policy brief can be found here.
SEPTEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2015
Ph.D in Economics - Centre for Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) at UNamur, Belgium
PhD Dissertation: "Essays in Development Economics on Agricultural Innovation and Redistributive Pressures"
supervisors: Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau
during my PhD I was a doctoral fellow of the F.R.S.-FNRS
Research Stay at University of Oxford (Hillary term 2014)
within the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE)