Caroline Miehe is a researcher at NOVAFRICA, Nova University Lisbon and holds a Doctor of Economics from KU Leuven. She specializes in Development Economics and is involved in the design and evaluation of several field experiments and randomized control trials in sub-Saharan Africa. Caroline has recently worked for LICOS (KU Leuven) and the Development Economics Group (Wageningen University) and has taught courses at the University of Potsdam, KU Leuven, and Nova University Lisbon. She has published articles in academic journals such as World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Agricultural Systems, and authored reports, a book chapter, and various blogs.
Academic mission statement: I conduct randomized experiments in sub-Saharan Africa to explore how economic principles—such as decision-making under risk and asymmetric information—can inform strategies that enhance agricultural technology adoption and climate disaster management, to strengthen the resilience of farmers and communities facing poverty and climate change.
Interest & expertise: information (asymmetries), learning (failures) • risk, uncertainty • agricultural technology (adoption), seed systems, smallholder farmers, agro-input dealers • gender bias/ dynamics • community-based monitoring, public service delivery • (climate-related) disasters, resilience • urbanization, urban development • community meetings/ involvement/ mobilization • field experiments, randomized controlled trials, intervention design • sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Mozambique