Dr. Harounan Kazianga
Assistant Professor

harounan.kazianga@okstate.edu
327 Business Building

405-744-5110 (office)
405-744-5195 (department)

Academic, Military, and Professional Positions

Development Economics Research Group, World Bank, Extended Term Consultant, September 2006 - August 2008
Columbia University, Earth Institute Fellow, September 2004 - August 2006
Economic Growth Center, Department of Economics, Yale University, Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow, October 2002 - August 2004
Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, Research Assistant, January 1998 - August 2002

Awards and Honors

Education

MBA, Purdue University, Agricultural Economics and Economic Development, 2002
MA, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Development Economics, 1996
BA, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Economics, 1991

Courses Taught

ECON 3113
- Intermediate Microeconomics (Fall 2009)
ECON 2103
- Introduction to Microeconomics (Spring 2009)
ECON 4643
- International Economic Development (Spring 2009)

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Burkina Faso Girls Education Threshold Program
Millennium Challenge Corporation
- 2006

Asset Accumulatio in Rural Burkina Faso: Risk Sharing Networks and Economic Shocks
Analysis for Growth and Access (SAGA), Competitive Research Grants
- 2005

Water Allocation, Efficiency, and Vulnerability in N.E. Brazil: Mechanisms Based on Groups' Behaviors, Perceptions, and Recommendations
Tinker Foundation, Inc.
- 2005

Informal Insurance and Schooling Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso
Social Science Research Council
- 2004

Risk Perceptions, Gender, and the Demand for Safe Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Burkina Faso
Rockefeller Foundation
- 2004

Publications

Harounan Kazianga, C. Udry, 2006, "Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance, and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso," Journal of Development Economics, 79 (2), 413-446.

Harounan Kazianga, 2006, "Motives for Household Private Transfers in Rural Burkina Faso," Journal of Development Economics, 79 (1), 73-117.

Harounan Kazianga, W A Master, 2006, "Property Rights, Production Technology, and Deforestation: Cocoa in Cameroon," Agricultural Ecoomics, 35 (1), 19-26.

Harounan Kazianga, W A Master, 2002, "Investing in Soils: Field Bunds and Microcatchments in Burkina Faso," Environment and Development Economics, 7 (3), 571-591.

Presentations Given