Elisabeth Sadoulet

Elisabeth Sadoulet
Occupation(s)Economist and professor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Geneva
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Elisabeth Sadoulet is an economist and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley who has carried out field research in China, India, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Sadoulet was the editor of the World Bank Economic Review from 2010 to 2013,[2] and is a fellow of several scholarly associations in the fields of agriculture and economics.

Sadoulet has worked in an advisory capacity with organizations including the Government of Mexico, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Bank. She is a senior fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI).[3][4][5]

Career

Sadoulet obtained her PhD from the University of Geneva in 1982, after studying mathematics and econometrics.[6][5] In 1985, she joined the University of California, Berkeley as a Lecturer where she has remained.[7] Along with agronomist and economist Alain de Janvry, whom she met at UC Berkeley, Sadoulet is one of a small number of French economists working in the United States.[8]

Sadoulet was the editor of the World Bank Economic Review from 2010 to 2013,[2] and on the editorial board of the Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies from 2008 to 2010.[1]

Research

Sadoulet's research mainly focuses on agricultural economics. She names Angus Deaton, Irma Adelman, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo as having influenced her approach to economics as both a quantitative and experimental discipline, in which rigorous analysis became the basis for policy recommendations in normative work with governments, organizations, NGOs, and the private sector.[5]

Throughout her career, she has focused on "how to make agriculture into an effective instrument for development", believing that it is underused and misused, but still presents unique opportunities.[5] Beginning with a focus on growth and poverty, her work includes vulnerability to poverty and risk, inequality and inequity, basic needs in health and education, access to assets, microfinancing, land rental contracts, technology innovation, social programs, community-driven development, adaptation to climate change, resource scarcity, cooperative management of common property resources, and governance.[5]

Sadoulet has published the textbooks Quantitative development policy analysis (1995, 2003) and Development Economics: Theory and practice (2016, 2021) with Alain De Janvry.[9][10]

Sadoulet has published in The American Economic Review (AER), The Economic Journal (EJ), the Journal of Development Economics (JDE), World Development (WD),[7] and the Annual Review of Resource Economics.[11] As of 2022 Sadoulet is ranked #472 in the top 5% of the most prolific economists in the world, with 288 publications listed on IDEAS.[12] Her works have been cited over 28,492 times on Google Scholar.[13]

Awards

Sadoulet became an honorary life member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in 2018.[14] She became a fellow of the American Association of Agricultural Economics in 2011.[15][16] She is also a fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).[7]

Sadoulet has been recognized by the AAEA for her research, her teaching and her advisory work in the area of international economic development.[7] Sadoulet received the College of Natural Resources (CNR) Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016.[17] She was a recipient of the Publication of Enduring Quality Award at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in 2021.[18]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Elisabeth Sadoulet". Elisabeth Sadoulet. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  2. ^ a b McKenzie, David; Özler, Berk (February 5, 2012). "A Q&A with the editors of the WBER, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet". blogs.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  3. ^ "Elisabeth SADOULET". Ferdi. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  4. ^ Gorter, Harry De; McCluskey, Jill; Swinnen, Johan; Zilberman, David (2022). Modern Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy: Essays in Honor of Gordon Rausser. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-77760-9.
  5. ^ a b c d e de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth (5 October 2022). "Agriculture for Development: Analytics and Action". Annual Review of Resource Economics. 14 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1146/annurev-resource-090921-045011. ISSN 1941-1340. S2CID 249558742.
  6. ^ "Elisabeth SADOULET". Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d "Elisabeth Sadoulet". Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  8. ^ "Les Américains règnent en maîtres sur les doctrines du développement". Le Monde.fr (in French). 1999-06-22. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  9. ^ Sadoulet, Elisabeth; De Janvry, Alain (2003). Quantitative development policy analysis (2nd ed.). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801874291.
  10. ^ De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth (May 31, 2021). Development economics : theory and practice (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780367456474.
  11. ^ "Search Results". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  12. ^ "Top 5% Authors, Number of Works, as of September 2022 | Economist Rankings, Number of Works". IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  13. ^ "Elisabeth Sadoulet - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  14. ^ "Honorary Life Members". International Association of Agricultural Economists. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  15. ^ "2011 Fellow Elisabeth Sadoulet". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 94 (2): xiii–xiv. January 2012. doi:10.1093/ajae/aar089. ISSN 0002-9092.
  16. ^ "Awards". Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Elisabeth Sadoulet Wins 2016 CNR Distinguished Teaching Award". Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  18. ^ Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (August 31, 2021). "Over 40 Recognized at 2021 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting". PRWeb. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  19. ^ a b Gaigné, C.; Laroche Dupraz, C.; Matthews, A. (2015). "Thirty years of European research on international trade in food and agricultural products". Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies. 96 (1): 91–130.