Marc F Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Office Location: 110 Rubenstein Hall
Duke Box: 90312
Email Address: marc.bellemare@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.marcfbellemare.com

Areas of Expertise

  • International, Applied Economics

Education:
Ph.D. (Applied Economics), Cornell University, 2006
M.Sc. (Economics), Universite de Montreal, 2001
B.Sc., Universite de Montreal, 1999

Current projects: Food Prices and Social Movements, Impact Evaluation of Insurance for Agricultural Producers

Research Description: I am an agricultural economist whose research focuses on development policy and a development economist whose research focuses on agricultural development.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. M.F. Bellemare. "Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar." Development Policy Review 29.1 (2009): 87-106.
  2. M.F. Bellemare and C.B. Barrett. "An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88.2 (2006): 324-337.
  3. Barrett, Christopher B., Marc F. Bellemare, and Sharon M. Osterloh. "Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists." Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. Ed. John McPeak and Peter D. Little Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing, 2006: 15-38.
  4. M.F. Bellemare, C.B. Barrett, and D.R. Just. "The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia."   (December, 2010). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  5. M.F. Bellemare. "The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy."   (2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Marc F. Bellemare was born in Montreal in 1976. After obtaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the Université de Montréal, he spent four months working at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialized agency of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.

He then attended Cornell University for his Ph.D., during which time he spent eight months collecting data in Madagascar and where he wrote a dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Agrarian Contracts", which won him the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2007. His fields of interest are development economics and law and economics, and he has conducted research on market participation, agrarian contracts, land use and land rights as well as risk management in developing countries, and on music piracy among college students in the United States.

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