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 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'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 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]
De Janvry, Alain; Gordillo, Gustavo; Sadoulet, Elisabeth (1997). Mexico's second agrarian reform: household and community responses, 1990-1994. La Jolla, Calif.: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego. ISBN978-1878367303.
1 2 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.
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