Marc F. Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Marc F. Bellemare

Office Location: 211 Sanford
Office Phone: 919-613-7405
Email Address: marc.bellemare@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise:
Economics
International Development

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

Current projects: Reverse Share Tenancy, Monitoring in Production Contracts, Market Participation of Households, Price Risk Aversion, Intrahousehold Models

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Bellemare, Marc F., and Christopher B. Barrett. "An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88.2 (2006): 324-337.
  2. 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.
  3. Marc F. Bellemare. "Testing between Competing Theories of Reverse Share Tenancy."   (July, 2007).  [abs]
  4. Marc F. Bellemare. "Testing the Effect of Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar."   (January, 2008).  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Marc F. Bellemare was born in Montréal (Québec), Canada, in 1976. After obtaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. (Economics) 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., where he wrote a dissertation on agrarian contracts. His fields of interest are development microeconomics, agricultural economics, applied econometrics and applied contract theory, and he has conducted research on the market participation of agricultural households, on agrarian contracts, and on the price risk preferences of households.