Timothée Demont

I am an Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University.

I do applied microeconomic and empirical research that aims at understanding important development challenges and inform policymaking. I have a particular interest in microfinance, risk-coping behaviors in poor and vulnerable environments, education, migration, and gender issues.

I am in charge of the Development and International Economics seminar at AMSE (with my great colleague Eva).

Dear visitor, please have some food (I particularly like) for thought:

"To every complex problem, there exists a simple answer, but it is wrong." (Umberto Eco)

"What we as economists have learned best to do, is to be hard headed about the facts, skeptical of slick answers and magic bullets, modest and honest about what we know and understand, and perhaps most importantly, willing to try ideas and solutions and be wrong, as long as it takes us toward the ultimate goal of building a more humane world." (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 2019)

"If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today." (Atkinson)