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Julien Wolfersberger

Welcome! I am an Associate professor (Maitre de conférences, HDR), at AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay. I am also an associate researcher at the Climate Economics Chair of Univ. Paris-Dauphine.

My research interests lie at the intersection of environment and development economics.

I have held visiting positions at the University of Oxford and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and more recently at UNU-WIDER.

Contact: julien.wolfersberger<at>gmail.com

Publications

“Agricultural Trade and Deforestation: the Role of New Roads”
with D. Gollin   
The Economic Journal.

“Weather Shocks and Firm Exports in Developing Countries“
with C. Nedoncelle.
Review of World Economics. 1-42. 2024.

“Institutions and Conservation: The Case of Protected Areas“
with F. Bareille and M. Zavalloni.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 118. 2023.

“Environmental Policies And Economic Development: Implications of Economic Geography”
with S. Morgan and A. Pfaff.
Annual Review of Resources Economics. 14. 2022.

“The dynamics of deforestation and reforestation in a developing economy”
with G. Amacher, P. Delacote and A. Dragicevic.
Environment and Development Economics. 27, 3, 272-293. 2022.

“Is the agricultural sector cursed too? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”
with E. Dorinet and P-A. Jouvet.
World Development. 140, 105250. 2021.

“What has driven deforestation in developing countries since the 2000s? Evidence from new remote-sensing data”
with A. Leblois and O. Damette.
World Development. 92-102. 2017.

“The economic analysis of the forest transition: A review”
with E. Barbier and P. Delacote.
Journal of Forest Economics. 27, 10-17. 2017.

“An empirical analysis of forest transition and land use change in developing countries”
with P. Delacote and S. Garcia.
Ecological Economics, 119, 241-251. 2015.

Selected work in progress

“Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa” with K. Houngbdeji, C. Imbert, S. Marshall, L. Wren-Lewis.

  ”Climate Immobility in Sub-Saharan Africa ” with E. Pignède.

“ Deforestation, Downwind Rainfalls and Economic Loss in Western Africa”  with M. Degois and T. Vendryes.

Teaching

– Development Economics
– Topics in Environment and Development Economics
– Trade and the Environment
– Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
– Fundamentals in Micro- and Macroeconomics

Supervision

Ph.D. candidates (co-supervisions):
– B. Chaulvet (Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
– M. Degois (Univ. Paris-Saclay)
– J. Malvagi (AgroParisTech)
– M. Tovmasyan (Univ. Paris-Saclay)

Former students:
– E. Pignede (AgroParisTech, 2021-2025)
– E. Dorinet (Univ. Paris-Nanterre, 2018-2022)

Master theses. Topics covered recently: cocoa expansion and deforestation in West Africa; property rights and adaptation to climate change in Brazil.