0 Stephanie Levy
Dr Stephanie  Levy

Dr Stephanie Levy

Guest Lecturer

Department of International Development

Languages
English, French, Hebrew
Key Expertise
Poverty, Social Protection, Household behaviour, Cash Transfers, Inequality

About me

Stephanie is a development economist with over 15 years of experience in rural development and poverty reduction policies in Africa and South-East Asia. Stephanie has an extensive experience of modelling and policy analysis using simulation tools and quantitative analysis methods. As an academic researcher, she worked on agricultural development policies, including natural resources management, public investment in rural infrastructure and services, food price and poverty reduction.

Her PhD research examines the use of natural resource revenue to finance pro-poor growth strategies. This work is applied to the case of Chad using a general equilibrium model to compare different public investment strategies.

She has worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the London Business School before joining the Overseas Development Institute in 2005, where she conducted studies on rural development and social protection for the World Bank, the United Nation Programme for Development and for DFID.

She joined the London School of Economics as a Guest Lecturer in 2014. Her current research focuses on the local economic impact of social protection, including cash transfers and graduation packages, the complementarity between rural development policies and social transfers and the impact of financial shocks and stresses on household behaviour. She currently works with UNDP and the Government of Cambodia on a randomized control trial that aims at evaluating the impact of graduation-based social protection policies.

She holds an MSc from the Sorbonne University and a PhD from Toulouse University.

She currently teaches for DV410: Research Design, DV490: Economic Development Policy: Applied Policy Analysis I, DV491: Economic Development Policy: Microeconomic Analysis and DV492: Economic Development Policy: Government Policy.

She holds an MSc from the Sorbonne University and a PhD from Toulouse University.

She currently teaches for DV410: Research Design, DV490: Economic Development Policy: Applied Policy Analysis I, DV491: Economic Development Policy: Microeconomic Analysis and DV492: Economic Development Policy: Government Policy.

Selected publications

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Expertise Details

Social protection; cash transfers and graduation models & their impact on the local economy; General equilibrium effects of safety nets; Rural development policies; Agricultural growth