Stampini, Marco

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Marco Stampini is Principal Research Economist at the Development Research Department of the African Development Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in January 2008, he held a research position at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. Since 2001, he consulted on various development themes for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank. He has been Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and University of Brasilia, and Senior Lecturer at the Catholic University of America. He holds a Masters in Applied Economics from CORIPE Piedmont, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.

Research interests

Conditional cash transfer programs, poverty dynamics, migration, labor markets, environmental taxation, cost-benefit analysis.

Selected Publications

• Pages C. and M. Stampini. Forthcoming.  “No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation”, Journal of Comparative Economics.
• Handa S., A. Peterman, B. Davis and M. Stampini. 2009. “Opening up Pandora’s Box: The effect of gender targeting and conditionality on household spending behavior in Mexico’s Progresa program”, World Development 37(6): 1129-1142. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.10.005
• Stampini M. and B. Davis. 2009. “Does off-farm labor release farming credit constraints? Evidence from longitudinal data for Vietnam”. Agricultural Economics 40: 177-188.
• Bernabè S. and M. Stampini. 2009. “Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from Georgia”. The Economics of Transition 17(2): 377-409.
• Bulckaen F. and M. Stampini. Forthcoming. “On Shadow Prices for the Measurement of Sustainability”. Environment, Development and Sustainability. DOI 10.1007/s10668-008-9174-z
• Stampini M., B. Davis and G. Carletto. 2008. “International Migration from Albania: the Role of Family Networks and Previous Experience”. Eastern European Economics 46(2): 51-88.
• Ruiz M., B. Davis, S. Handa, M. Stampini and P. Winters. 2006. “Program Conditionality and Food Security: the impact of PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfers in rural Mexico”. EconomiA 7(2): 249-278.
• Carletto C., B. Davis, M. Stampini and A. Zezza. 2006. “A Country on the Move: International Migration in Post-Communist Albania”. International Migration Review, 40(4): 767-785.
• Stampini M. and B. Davis. 2006. “Discerning Transient From Chronic Poverty In Nicaragua: Measurement With A Two Period Panel Data Set”. European Journal of Development Research, 18(1): 105-130.
• Stecklov G., P. Winters, M. Stampini and B. Davis. 2005. “Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican PROGRESA program”. Demography, 42(4): 769-790.