Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher
Dr Philippe LeMay-Boucher
Associate Professor of Economics
My field of specialisation is development economics. My research encompasses a broad range of topics: intra-household consumption allocation decisions, technology adoption (mobile money, improved cookstoves, bed nets), informal institutions such as saving and insurance groups and discussion groups, formal health micro-insurance (‘mutuelles’) and witchcraft (magico-religious powers).
My work draws on several original datasets that I collected in Benin, Senegal and Mali and on micro-econometrics estimation techniques.
Areas of interest
- Development Economics
- Health Economics
- Applied micro-econometrics
- Public Economics.
Qualifications
2002 - 2007, PhD Economics (University of Namur, Belgium)
2000 - 2002, M.Sc. Economics and Statistics (Free University Brussels, ECARES, Belgium)
1997 - 1999, M.A. Economics (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
1994 - 1997, B.A. (Honours) Economics and minor in Mathematics (McGill University, Canada)
Background
2014 to present, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer/Reader) of Economics, Heriot-Watt University
2007 - 2014: Lecturer in Economics, Heriot-Watt University