Helena Voss
PhD
Economics
·
Development
&
Labor
Economist
Researching
household
finance
,
microenterprise
growth
,
and
the
economics
of
education
in
Sub
-
Saharan
Africa
.
Field
-
experimental
methods
with
a
focus
on
policy
relevance
.
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.
voss
@
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helenavoss
Oxford
,
United
Kingdom
A CA DEMIC A PPOINTMENTS
Associate
Professor
of
Economics
University
of
Oxford
2022–
present
Department
of
Economics
and
St
.
Hugh
’
s
College
.
Affiliated
with
the
CSAE
and
IFS
.
Assistant
Professor
of
Economics
University
of
Oxford
2017–2022
Department
of
Economics
.
Teaching
:
development
microeconomics
,
applied
econometrics
,
and
field
methods
.
Postdoctoral
Research
Fellow
JPAL
Europe
·
Paris
School
of
Economics
2015–2017
Managed
five
randomized
evaluations
across
Senegal
and
Côte
d
’
Ivoire
on
savings
behavior
and
female
entrepreneurship
.
EDUCATION
PhD
in
Economics
London
School
of
Economics
and
Political
Science
2015
Dissertation
:
Essays
on
Household
Savings
,
Risk
-
Sharing
,
and
Microenterprise
in
West
Africa
.
Advisor
:
Professor
Oriana
Bandiera
.
MSc
Economics
University
of
Oxford
2010
Distinction
.
Thesis
on
the
impact
of
cash
transfers
on
child
labor
in
rural
Malawi
.
BA
Economics
&
Philosophy
University
of
Copenhagen
2008
First
-
class
honours
.
Exchange
semester
at
UC
Berkeley
, 2007.
PUBLISHED & FORTHCOMING RESEA RCH
2025
·
Voss
,
H
.,
K
.
Dercon
,
and
M
.
Gulesci
. “
Savings
Groups
,
Business
Investment
,
and
Female
Agency
:
A
Five
-
Year
Follow
-
Up
in
Senegal
.”
American
Economic
Journal
:
Applied
Economics
17(2): 84–119.
2023
·
Voss
,
H
.
and
A
.
Zeitlin
. “
Teacher
Incentives
,
Student
Achievement
,
and
the
Role
of
Peer
Effects
:
Evidence
from
Kenya
.”
Journal
of
Development
Economics
163: 103–127.
2021
·
Voss
,
H
. “
Informal
Insurance
and
the
Dynamics
of
Microenterprise
Growth
.”
Review
of
Economic
Studies
88(6): 2948–2984.
2020
·
Bandiera
,
O
.,
R
.
Burgess
,
S
.
Gulesci
,
and
H
.
Voss
. “
Community
Networks
and
the
Take
-
Up
of
Financial
Services
:
Experimental
Evidence
from
Uganda
.”
Econometrica
88(6): 2471–2516.
SKILLS & METHODS
Randomized
controlled
trials
Quasi
-
experimental
design
Structural
estimation
Stata
R
Python
ArcGIS
SurveyCTO
Qualitative
fieldwork
Machine
learning
(
causal
forest
)
LA NGUA GES
Danish
Native
English
Fluent
French
Advanced
(
C
1)
Swahili
Intermediate
(
B
1)
Wolof
Basic
(
A
2)
GRA NTS & AWA RDS
ERC
Starting
Grant
European
Research
Council
2023–2028
€1.5
M
for
project
“
Household
Finance
,
Resilience
,
and
Human
Capital
in
the
Sahel
.”
Best
Paper
in
Development
Economics
BREAD
/
CEPR
2022
For
“
Informal
Insurance
and
Microenterprise
Growth
.”
Philip
Leverhulme
Prize
Leverhulme
Trust
2021
For
contributions
to
development
economics
in
Africa
.
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