Research interests

Climate Change Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Development Economics, Survey Methodology

Peer-reviewed publications (Google Scholar profile)

• Leaving the Hearth You Know: Internal Migration and Energy Poverty. World Development, 180 (with Le Roux L.)

• Addressing Non-Response Bias in Surveys of Wealthy Households in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Strategies and Implementation. Journal of Development Studies (2023), 59, 1427-1442 (with Saxena P., and Santana, G.)

• Optimal protected area implementation under spillover effects. Resource and Energy Economics (2022),  (with S. Schwartz, J.-L. Combes, P. Combes-Motel, E. Kere)

• The economics of volcanic risk. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (2021), 1-23 (with Lamour A and Phelinas P)

• Natural disasters, land and labor.  European Review of Agricultural Economics (2020) 47, 296–323.  (with  Phélinas P)  

• New Principles for Household Surveys in the Global South. Revue d'Economie du Développement (2020), 26, 111-138 (with Phélinas P)  This document is the English version of:  Nouveaux principes d’élaboration des enquêtes ménage dans les pays du Sud », Revue d’économie du développement (2019), 26, 121-151. 

• Stacking up the Ladder: A Panel Data Analysis of Tanzanian Household Energy Choices. World Development (2019) (with Combes P & le Roux L) 

• A spatial econometric approach to spillovers effects between protected areas and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2019) (with Amin A, Combes JL, Combes P, Kéré E, Ongono J & Schwartz S)

• Using paradata to collect better survey data : Evidence from a household survey in Tanzania. Review of Development Economics  (2019), 23-2, 598-618  (with Cust H & Taylor C)

• Nouveaux principes d’élaboration des enquêtes ménage dans les pays du Sud. Revue d'Économie du Développement  (2019), 26, 121-151 (with Phélinas P) 

• Does the Expansion of Biofuels Encroach on Forests?  Journal of Forest Economics (2018), 33, 75-82  (with Keles D, Combes P, Kere E)

• Developing a Socially Inclusive and Sustainable Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania. Energy Policy (2018), 118, 356–371

• Income-Generating Effects of Biofuel Policies: a Meta-Analysis of the CGE Literature. Ecological Economics (2018), 147, 230-24 (with Combes P, Guegang C)

• Is GM soybean cultivation in Argentina sustainable ?  World Development (2017), 99, 452-462 (with Phélinas P)

• Addressing Contextual and Location Biases in the Assessment of Protected Areas Effectiveness on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazônia.  Ecological Economics (2017), 136, 148–158 (with Kéré E, Combes P, Combes JL, Santoni O & Schwartz S)

• Farmland rental prices in GM soybean areas of Argentina: do contractual arrangements matter? Journal of Development Studies  (2016), 53, 1286–1302 (with Phélinas P)

• A Multi-Level Housing Hedonic Analysis of Water and Sanitation Access. Economics Bulletin (2016), 36(2), 1010-1037 (with Kéré E & Loyal Laré A)

• Climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing and transition countries: introduction to the special issue. Environment and Development Economics (2015), 20, 425–433 (with Motel PC, Millock K)

• Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina. Ecological Economics (2015) 110, 134–140 (with Phélinas P)

• Development and biodiversity conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A spatial analysis. Economics Bulletin (2015), 35, 729–744 (with Amin A)

• The value of the greenbelt in Vienna: a spatial hedonic analysis. Annals of Regional Science (2015), 54, 349–374 (with Herath S,  Maier G)

• Access to water as determinant of rental values: a housing hedonic analysis in Rwanda. Journal of Housing Economics (2014), 26, 48–54 (with Stage J, Uwera C)

• Explorations in the Environment–Development Dilemma. Environmental and Resource Economics (2014), 57(4): 479-485 (with Combes Motel P,  Minea A, Sterner T)

• Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve for deforestation a threatened theory? A meta-analysis of the literature. Ecological Economics (2013), 90:19-28 (with Combes Motel P, Dakpo H)

• The provision of urban parks: an empirical test of spatial spillovers in an urban area using geographic information systems. Annals of Regional Science (2011), 47(2): 437-450 (with Cormier L )

• « Politiques publiques et espaces verts urbains » in W. Oueslati (ed.) / Analyses économiques du paysage (2011), Edition QUAE, 246 p. (with Salanié J )

•  La capitalisation immobilière des espaces verts dans la ville d’Angers : une approche hédoniste. Revue Economique (2010), 61-5 (with Travers M)

• An empirical investigation of public choices for green spaces. Land Use Policy (2010), 27(4): 1123-1131

• Provision of urban green spaces: some insights from economics. Landscape Research (2008), 33(3): 331-345 (with Salanié J)

Guest editor of special issues

• Choumert J., Combes Motel P., Millock K. (2015) Climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing and transition countries: introduction to the special issue. Environment and Development Economics, 20, 425–433.

• Combes Motel P., Choumert J., Minea A., Sterner T. (2014) “Explorations in the Environment–Development Dilemma”. Environmental and Resource Economics, 57(4): 479-485

Reports

• Community Perceptions of Natural Gas Operations in South Eastern Tanzania, UONGOZI Institute (2017)

• Improving Rural Road Access in Tanzania -  Impact Assessment, ITAD, DFID (2018)

• Improving Rural Road Access in Tanzania - Road Evaluation Baseline Survey, ITAD, DFID (2015)

• External Baseline Evaluation of the Central Highlands Programme (CHP) - Afghanistan, Samuel Hall, AFD (2015)

• A Community Perception Survey of Mining in Afghanistan, Samuel Hall, World Bank, (2014)

Articles on field methods and data quality in socio-economic surveys

• Randomising Within-Household Respondent Selection (2018) (with Cust H., Mallet M., Taylor C.,  Terenzi L.)

• Experiences and challenges in data collection monitoring: From Bukoba (Tanzania) to High Wycombe (United Kingdom) (2016) (withTaylor C., Guimas C., Mallet M., Sivewright N. )

• Using CAPI to improve and evaluate the quality of socio-economic surveys (2016) (with Spence, C., Taylor, C.)

Blog posts

• Navigating the ethics of field research in international development

• 15 Years of Using Electronic Data Collection

• Methodological Advances in the Design and Administration of Household Surveys

• Improving measures of household food consumption: measuring food-away-from-home in household surveys

• Qualitative Methods: The Added Value of Non-Numerical Data

• Implementing a school survey

• Building a questionnaire for a household survey: a check-list (part 1, part 2)

• How can GIS be used to improve quality of field based data collection?

• Timestamps – what are they good for?

• What are paradata?

• Biofuels, welfare and deforestation

• What are the key elements of a consent form for a household survey?

• What is Data Quality?

• Randomising Within-Household Respondent Selection

• Confidentiality and Data Protection During Fieldwork

• How to improve survey data quality?

• Five podcasts and videos onthe importance of more and better data in the Global South

• Keeping your follow-up survey on track: How to successfully utilise tracking tools in a baseline survey

• Dealing with surveys on sensitive topics

• Survey Methodology in Social Sciences, Data Quality, Duplicates and other topics

• How to minimize attrition and non-response rates in mobile phone surveys? Experiences from the field

Thesis

• « Analyse économique d'un bien public local : les espaces verts » Ph.D Thesis, 425 p. (Economic Analysis of a local public good: the case of green spaces) (2009)