Mélanie Gittard
PhD
Paris School of Economics, EHESS
Campus Jourdan – 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
5th floor, office 68
- Agricultural Economics and development
- Environmental Economics & Natural resources in developing countries
- Trade/Migration and development
- Demography and Migrations
- Climate Change Economics
Mélanie Gittard is available for positions
Mélanie Gittard is an EJME candidate and JOE Network candidate
- Primary Field: Environmental Economics
- Secondary Fields: Development Economics
- References: Denis Cogneau, Philippe Quirion, Eric Strobl, Liam Wren-Lewis
- Job Market PAPER: MiningLeaks: Water Pollution and Child Mortality in Africa
- Placement: Postdoctoral position, Stanford University (USA)
Brief Candidate Profile:
Mélanie is an environmental and development economist studying the impacts of climate change and water pollution in sub-Saharan Africa on migration, agricultural practices, and health, using quasi-experimental designs with exhaustive administrative censuses, household surveys, and satellite images. Her job market builds a new geo-coded dataset on industrial mines across Africa and sheds light on the adverse effects of mining-induced water pollution on child mortality.
Thesis Supervisor: COGNEAU Denis
Co-supervisor: QUIRION Philippe
Academic year of registration: 2018/2019
Thesis title: Climate Change, Droughts and Water Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Year of thesis defense: 2022/2023
Date of thesis defense: 10 January 2023
On January 10th, 2023 I defended my thesis Climate Change, Droughts and Water Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jury:
Mme Raja Chakir, Directrice de recherche à INRAE, Paris-Saclay Applied Economics
Mme Christelle Dumas, Professeur à l'Université de Fribourg
M. Eric Strobl, Professeur à l'Université de Berne
M. Liam Wren-Lewis, Professeur à PSE, Chargé de Recherche à INRAE
Direction de thèse :
M. Denis Cogneau, Professeur à PSE, Directeur d'études à l'EHESS, Directeur de Recherche IRD
M. Philippe Quirion, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, CIRED