Felix Naschold
| Position |
Post-Doctoral Researcher |
| Area of Interest |
Economics of Development |
| Country of Origin |
Germany |
| Email Address |
fn23@cornell.edu |
| Campus Address |
313a Warren Hall |
Felix is a Postdoctoral Research Associate whose work centers around the analysis and measurement of household poverty dynamics, with a particular interest in research that is relevant to policy. He completed his Ph.D. in Development Economics in the Department of Applied Economics and Management in January 2008. He also holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Development Economics from the University of London. He spent six years working in the Overseas Development Institute in London and in the Ministry of Finance in Fiji on poverty, public policy and expenditure management issues.
Current research projects include:
• Idiosyncratic shocks and household welfare dynamics: A three country comparison (with IFPRI, Addis Ababa University, ISSER/University of Ghana, DATA Bangladesh). This USAID funded research aims to clarify what existing mechanisms help mitigate adverse idiosyncratic shocks, what gaps in coverage exist, and how different interventions affect insurance against idiosyncratic ex-ante and ex-post risk and its dynamic effects on rural households' asset holdings, productivity and well-being in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Ghana.
• Quantitative analysis of household welfare dynamics and idiosyncratic shocks in rural Ghana (with ISSER/University of Ghana). This research uses newly expanded panel data from rural Ghana to assess how household-specific risk affects long-term asset accumulation patterns differentiating between ex ante and ex post risk exposure and between risk management mechanisms (self-insurance, formal insurance informal social insurance).
• Targeting maps in Uganda (with International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi). By combining small area estimation techniques with econometric estimates of conditional, asset-specific returns disaggregated by location and subpopulations we will construct expected poverty maps which can help target policy interventions and guide further research aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity.
• Subgroup-specific welfare dynamics in rural semi-arid India. Using long household panel data from Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra this research aims to identify long-term welfare trajectories and poverty transitions by household livelihood strategies and caste membership.
Other research interests include
• Semiparametric panel data estimation using penalized spline
• Measurement of transitory and chronic poverty and economic mobility
• Causes and measurement of economic inequality across time
When not being an economist Felix' time is occupied by four-year old Isa and one-year-old Alexa. Any remaining moments are spent cycling, skiing and playing Latin American classical guitar.
(Some more about Felix at: http://myprofile.cos.com/fnaschold)