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Caroline Miehe is a Research Associate in the Division of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics (DAFRE) at KU Leuven and holds a PhD in Economics. She specializes in development economics and has designed and evaluated several field experiments in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, she worked at NOVAFRICA (Nova University Lisbon), the Development Economics Group (Wageningen University), and LICOS (KU Leuven). She has published in journals including World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Agricultural Systems, and written policy reports and briefs, blog posts, and a book chapter.
Academic mission statement: Through randomized field experiments and primary data collection, I study how economic principles – such as decision-making under uncertainty and asymmetric information – can inform strategies to strengthen the resilience of communities confronting poverty and climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
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, climate adaptation • community meetings/ involvement/ mobilization • field experiments, randomized controlled trials, intervention design • sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda, Mozambique
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