Pierre E. Biscaye

I am a development and environmental economist studying how climate shocks and infrastructure quality shape household decision-making, resilience, and conflict in low-income countries. My research combines causal inference, microeconomic theory, and diverse data sources such as panel surveys, administrative records, remote sensing, and high-frequency sensor technologies. Current projects examine the long-run impacts of agricultural shocks on conflict, the economics of electricity reliability, and the roles of information and infrastructure in household and community adaptation to rising flood risk.

I am currently a Chaire de Professeur Junior at the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), based in the School of Economics at the Université Clermont Auvergne in France. I teach courses in microeconomics of development and data science for economists.

I completed a PhD in Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley in May 2024. I have worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania on a variety of development projects, and growing up lived for 10 years in Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, and Cambodia. I have a Master's of Public Administration with a concentration on International Development from the University of Washington Evans School and a BA in International Studies from Whitworth University. I was a Research & Strategic Initiatives Manager at the Evans School Policy Analysis & Research Group (EPAR), and before that worked for non-profit organizations on projects in East and West Africa. 

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