JEAN-FRANCOIS MAYSTADT
January 2017
[email protected]
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/maystadt/
EXPERIENCES
2014-Now
2012-2014
2010-2014
Oct’05 - Sep’09
Sep’ 03 – Oct’05
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Economics, Lancaster
University Management School, UK
Ranked 9th in the UK by The Times
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, LICOS (Center for Institutions and Economic
Performance, KU Leuven), Belgium (50%)
Ranked 12th in Europe by The Times
Under the supervision of Prof. J. Swinnen
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, IFPRI (International Food Policy Research
Institute), Washington DC (50% from 2012)
Ranked 1st in Agricultural Economics by REPEC
FNRS Research Fellow (Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique)
Adviser, Economic and Financial Affairs, UNICE (Union of Industrial and
Employers’ Confederations of Europe)
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium (August 2010)
Research Fellow at CORE (Center for Operational Research and Econometrics)
Supervised by Jacques Thisse (UCL & CORE, CREA visiting Professor)
Thesis Title:
Conflict and Forced Migration
PhD Preparatory year, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (partial MA economics)
MSc Local Economic Development, London School of Economics, UK (Distinction, 2003)
B.A. in Economics, UCL, Belgium (“Grande Distinction”, 2002), Erasmus at University Carlos III
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Google Scholar (05/10/2016): 422 citations since 2011, of which about 350 since 2014. H-Index: 11.
PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Marchiori L., J.-F. Maystadt and I. Schumacher. 2012. Weather Variations and Migration in SubSaharan Africa. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63(3):355-374.
Maystadt J.-F. and O. Ecker. 2014. Extreme Weather and Civil War: Does Drought Fuel Conflict in
Somalia through Livestock Price Shocks? American J. of Agricultural Economics 96(4): 1157-1182.
Maystadt J.-F., G. De Luca, P. Sekeris and J. Ulimwengu. 2014. Mineral resources and conflicts in
the Democratic Republic of Congo: A case of Ecological Fallacy. Oxford Econ. Papers. 66: 721-749.
Maystadt, J.-F., J.-F. Trinh Tan and C. Breisinger. 2014. Does Food Security Matter for Transition
in Arab Countries. Food Policy 46: 106-115.
Maystadt J.-F. and Ph. Verwimp. 2014. Winners and Losers Among a Refugee-Hosting Population.
Economic Development and Cultural Change 62(4): 769-809.
Maystadt, J.-F., M. Calderone and L. You. 2015. Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and
South Sudan. Journal of Economic Geography 15: 649-671.
L. Marchiori, J.-F. Maystadt and I. Schumacher. 2015. Is climate-induced income variability a driver
of migration? A macro-economic perspective. Migration & Development, forthcoming.
J.-F. Maystadt, V. Mueller and A. Sebastian 2016. Environmental Migration and labor markets in
Nepal. Journal of the Association of Resource and Environmental Economists 3(2): 417-452.
Ma Jiliang and J.-F. Maystadt. 2017. The impact of weather variations on maize yields and
household income : Income diversification as adaptation in rural China. Global Environmental
Change 42:93-106.
Maystadt, J.-F. and C. Breisinger. 2015. The EU refugee crisis: the tip of a global iceberg. IFPRI
Policy Brief, forthcoming. (peer-reviewed)
Mabiso, A., J.-F. Maystadt, J. Vandercasteelen, and K. Hirvonen. 2014. “Resilience for Food
Security in Refugee-Hosting Communities” In Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, edited by
S. Fan, R. Pandya-Lorch, and S. Yosef, 45-52. Washington, DC: IFPRI. (peer-reviewed)
Calderone, M., D. Headey, and J.-F. Maystadt. 2014. “Resilience to Climate-Induced Conflict in the
Horn of Africa.” (chapter 8) In Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, edited by S. Fan, R.
Pandya-Lorch, and S. Yosef, 65-73. Washington, DC: IFPRI (peer-reviewed)
Breisinger, C., O. Ecker, J.-F. Maystadt, J.-F. Trinh Tan, P. Al-Riffai, K. Bouzar, A. Sma, and M.
Abdelgadir. 2014. (chapter 2)“Food Security Policies for Building Resilience to Conflict” In
Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security, edited by S. Fan, R. Pandya-Lorch, and S. Yosef, 37-44.
Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. (peer-reviewed)
Breisinger, C., O. Ecker, J.-F. Maystadt, J.-F. Trinh Tan, P. Al-Riffai, K. Bouzar, A. Sma, and M.
Abdelgadir. 2014. How to Build Resilience to Conflict. The Role of Food Security. IFPRI Monograph.
Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. (peer-reviewed)
Naudé, N., J.-F. Maystadt, A. de Brauw, R. Lucas, F. Gubert, F. Wouterse, H. de Haas (2013) The
development potential of migration. WCAO Thematic Research Note 04. April 2013.
Maystadt, J.-F. and V. Mueller. 2012. Environmental Migrants : A Myth ? IFPRI Research Brief 18.
Maystadt J.-F. 2004. Micro-finance au Nord: Un effet de mode importé du Sud ? Mondes en
Développement 32(126), 69-82. (peer-reviewed)
Maystadt J.-F. 2004 La Micro-finance peut-elle fonctionner au Nord ? Apprentissage Sud-Nord, ed.
Luc Pire, 175 pages. (Book)
WORKING PAPERS
J.-F. Maystadt and G. Duranton (2014). The Development Push of Refugees: Evidence from
Tanzania. LUMS Economics WP 2014/019.
O. Dagnelie, G. De Luca and J.-F. Maystadt (2014) Do girls pay the price of civil war? Violence and
Infant Mortality in Congo. LUMS Economics WP 2014/017.
J.-F. Maystadt and M. Salihu (2015). The political economy of intergovernmental transfers:
Evidence from Nigeria. LUMS Econ. WP Series 2014/019.
Ph. Verwimp and J.-F. Maystadt. Forced Displacement and Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa: An
Economic Inquiry. November 2014. World Bank Working Paper.
H. Beshir and J.-F. Maystadt. 2016. In utero seasonal food insecurity and cognitive development:
Evidence from Ethiopia.
J.-F. Maystadt and G. Migali. The intergenerational transmission of health across 7 generations:
Evidence from China, 1789-1906. (invited at the next RES Meeting, April 2017)
O. Dagnelie, A. M. Mayda and J.-F. Maystadt. Labor market integration of refugees to the U.S.: Do
entrepreneurs in the network help? (invited at the next EEA Meeting, August 2017)
AWARDS, FUNDRAISING, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
LUMS grants £8,000 (PI); 2020 IFPRI conference commissioned papers $20,000 (PI); $680,000
CRP2 Activity 39 “Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Vulnerability in Conflict-prone
countries” (Co-PI); IFAD grant $1,000,000 (Co-PI); IFPRI Post-Doctoral Strategic Innovation Funds
$100,000 (PI); One-year ARC fellowship “Geographical Mobility of Factors”; Four-year FNRS
fellowship; Roger Vanthournout Award 2003 for B.A. dissertation.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Teaching at Lancaster: Applied Economics (2d year, 2014-now); Development Economics (3d year,
2014-now); World Economic Forum (MSc, 2016-now), Growth in Emerging Economies (MSc, 20142016), Research Skills for Economists (PhD, 2014-2016)
Teaching at KU Leuven: Invited lectures for Advanced Development Economics for PhD and Master
students (2013-now), Research Seminar and Doctoral Workshop for Master and PhD students (2013-
2015), Co-Teaching Economic Geography (UCL, 2009-2010), Teaching Assistant of Industrial
Organization (Sep-Jan 2008)
Refereeing: Agri. and Resource Econ. Rev.; Am. J. of Agri. Econ. (2); Bulletin of Econ. Research;
Climate & Dev.; Ecological Econ.; Educ. Econ.; Env. and Dev. Econ. (2); Env. & Resource Econ.;
Food Policy; Global Env. Change; Int. Migration; J. of Conflict Resolution (2); J. of Dev. Econ.; J. of
Dev. Studies; J. of Econ. Geography (4); J. of Peace Research (4); Migration Studies; Nature Climate
Change; Peace Econ., Peace Science & Public Policy; Pop. & Env. (2); Scand. J. of Econ.; World
Dev.
PhD supervision and examination:
Lancaster: Muhammad Salihu and Habtamu Beshir
External examiner for PhD in Economics to Stijn Van Weezel, 2015 at Royal Holloway, University
London; Andrea Guariso, 2015 at KU Leuven, Joachim Vandercasteelen, 2016 at KU Leuven,
Hannah Pieters, 2017 at KU Leuven and several PhD students in Lancaster
Program Examiner at the University of Manchester since October 2015 for four MSc in Development
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND VISITS
Invited Seminars (selected):
2017: Caen University
2014-2016: LICOS Anniversary Event at KU Leuven, Geneva Graduate Institute, US State
Department, World Bank/KNOMAD/UNHCR Methodological Workshop on measuring Impacts of
Refugees and IDPs on Host Communities, KU Leuven, University of Namur, University of Lancaster
Prior 2014: Sussex University, Wageningen University, KU Leuven, IFPRI, KU Leuven, University
of Namur, DIW Berlin, , University of Luxembourg, DIW Berlin, IDS Institute of Development
Studies, UCL-CORE, CRED Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, UCL-ECRU,
Economic Development Initiatives (EDI, Bukoba, Tanzania), London School of Economics
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops (selected):
2017: Refugee Studies Centre Conference, Oxford University
2014-2016: Bocconi University, UNESCWA/AUB Conference (Lebanon); Royal Economic Society
Annual Conference (Brighton), International Conference on Migration and Development (Washington
DC and Oxford), IFPRI 2020 Conference, Workshop on “Quantitative Research on Environmental
Migration (Paris), RES Workshop (London)
Prior 2014: HiCN Workshop (Berkeley, Yale, Brighton), CSAE Conference (2013, 2011, 2009), CTA
Brussels Briefing, European Development Day, TAMNEAC Meeting (Brighton), IAAE Triennial
Conference (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil), CCAFS Science Workshop (Copenhagen), Midwest International
Economic Development Conference (Minnesota and Wisconsin), IFPRI-UNESCWA conference
(Lebanon), IFPRI-IFAD workshop (Italy), Conference on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate
Change in Low-Income Countries at the Georges Washington University, IFPRI-University of Ghana
Conference (Accra), ESPE 2010 : XXIV Annual Conference of the European Society for Population
Economics (Germany), Royal Economic Society Fifth PhD Presentation Meeting (London UK),
XXXIV Simposio de la Asociacion Espanola de Economia (Valencia), International Conference on
New Economic Geography (Germany), IAP-Day (Brussels), Journées Doctorales de l’ADRES
(Toulouse), Winter School on Polarization and Conflict, Cordoba (Cordoba),
Visits: Georgetown University (forthcoming), US State Department, IREEP (Institut de recherche
Empirique en Economie Politique) at Cotonou (Benin), Center for the Study of Forced Migration
(CSFM) of the University of Dar el Salaam (Tanzania)