HAROUNAN KAZIANGA
Department of Economics
Professor, Economics
STILLWATER, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-5110
harounan.kazianga@okstate.edu
Education
- Ph D, 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
Publications
- Dean Karlan, Bassirou Karimou, Markus Goldstein, Thomas Bossuroy, Harounan Kazianga, William Parienté, Patrick Premand, Catherine Thomas, Christopher Udry, and Julia Vaillant. "Pathways Out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Nige". Nature. (605), 291-297.
- Theophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine, Harounan Kazianga, Mark Korir, and Njuguna Ndung'u. "Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Role of Policy in Reducing Malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa". Food Policy (Forthcoming).
- J. Jabbarian, K. L. Werner, M. Kagoné, J. M. Lemp, S McMahon, O. Horstick, Harounan Kazianga, J-F. Kobiané, G. Fink, and J-W. De Neve. (2022). "It’s the poverty'—Stakeholder perspectives on barriers to secondary education in rural Burkina Faso". San Francisco, California: Plos One (Forthcoming). (17), 11, 19.
- Yiriyibin Bambio, Anurag Deb, and Harounan Kazianga. "Exposure to Agricultural Technologies and Adoption: The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program in Ghana, Senegal and Mali". Food Policy (Forthcoming). 17.
- Harounan Kazianga and Zaki Wahhaj. (2020). "Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives? Family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso". World Development. (128), 104764.
- Chang Saing and Harounan Kazianga. (2019). "The Long-Term Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Human Capital: U.S. Bombing and Education, Earnings, Health, Fertility, and Marriage in Cambodia". Journal of Development Studies. (56), 5, 874-889.
- Francis N. Makamu, Mehtabul Azam, and Harounan Kazianga. (2018). "Returns to Controlling a Neglected Tropical Disease: Schistosomiasis Control Programme and Education Outcomes in Nigeria". Journal of African Economies.
- Harounan Kazianga and Francis N. Makamu. (2017). "Crop Choice, Schooling Participation and Child Labor in Developing Countries: Cotton Expansion in Burkina Faso". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. (99), 1, 34-54.
- Harounan Kazianga and Zaki Wahhaj. "Intra-household Resource Allocation and Familial Ties". Journal of Development Economics (Forthcoming).
- R. Akresh, D. de Walque, and Harounan Kazianga. "Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso". NBER Africa Success Project: University of Chicago Press (Forthcoming).
- M. McMillan, W. Masters, and Harounan Kazianga. "Demographic Pressure and Institutional Change: Village-Level Response to Rural Population Growth in Burkina Faso". NBER Africa Success Project: University of Chicago Press (Forthcoming).
- Harounan Kazianga. "Going upstream: a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Policy Interventions to enhance the HIV/AIDS response in Sub-Saharan Africa". Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming).
- Harounan Kazianga, Seni Kouanda, Laetitia Nikiema, Esther Rothenbuhler, Damien de Walque, and Mead Over. (2015). "HIV/AIDS Services Delivery and Overall Quality of Care and Satisfaction in Burkina Faso: Are There Privileged Patients". POVERTY, INEQUALITY, And Evaluation: Changing Perspectives. 978-1-4648-0703-9.
- Harounan Kazianga, William Masters, and Margaret McMillan. (2014). "Disease control, demographic change and institutional development in Africa". Journal of Development Economics. (110), 313-326.
- Harounan Kazianga, D. de Walque, and H. Alderman. (2014). "School Feeding Programs and the Nutrition of Sib- lings: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso". Journal of Development Economics. (106), 15-34.
- Harounan Kazianga and Z. Wahhaj. (2013). "Social Norms, Gender and Household Production in Burkina Faso". Economic Development and Cultural Change. (61), 3, 539-576.
- Harounan Kazianga, D. Levy, L. Linden, and M. Sloan. (2013). "The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. (5), 3, 41-62.
- D. de Walque and Harounan Kazianga. (2012). "Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence from Mozambique". Economic Development and Cultural Change. (61), 1, 97-125.
- R. Akresh, E. Bagby, D. de Walque, and Harounan Kazianga. (2012). "Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso". Economic Development and Cultural Change. (61), 1, 157-186.
- Harounan Kazianga, D. de Walque, and H Alderman. (2012). "Educational and Child Labor Impacts of Two Food for Education Schemes: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso". Journal of African Economies. (21), 5, 723-760.
- Harounan Kazianga. (2012). "Income Risk and Household Schooling Decisions in Burkina Faso". World Development. (40), 8, 1647-1662.
- Harounan Kazianga and 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 and W.A. Master. (2006). "Property Rights, Production Technology, and Deforestation: Cocoa in Cameroon". Agricultural Economics. (35), 1, 19-26.
- Harounan Kazianga and W.A. Master. (2002). "Investing in Soils: Field Bunds and Microcatchments in Burkina Faso". Environment and Development Economics. (7), 3, 571-591.
Editorial and Review Activities
- African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Agricultural Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Economic Development and Cultural Change
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Economic Working Paper Series
Editor or Co-Editor
- Environment and Development Economics
Associate Editor
- International Game Theory Review
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Journal of African Development
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Journal of Development Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Review of Statistics and Economics
Ad Hoc Reviewer
- Think Tank Initiative
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
- Journal of African Economies
Editor or Co-Editor
June 1 2024 - American Economic Journal: Applied
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
2015 - National Science Foundation
2015 - Journal of African Economics
Associate Editor
2011 - Journal of African Economies
Associate Editor
January 1 2011 - Journal of African Economies
Associate Editor
2011 - 2022 - Food Policy
Special Issue Editor
January 1 2021 - December 1 2022 - Economic Development and Cultural Change
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
2015 - 2021 - Jounal of Development Economics
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
2015 - 2020 - World Development
Invited Manuscript Reviewer
2015 - 2015 - Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Economic Development
and Cultural Change; World Development
Ad Hoc Reviewer
2013
Awards and Honors
- Affiliate Researcher (2021)
- External Fellow (2021)
- Research Fellow, Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano, University of Milano (2016)
Academic, Military, and Professional Positions
- Oklahoma State University, Professor, Economics, July 2018
- Economics and Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University, Carson Priority Excellence Professorship, July 2017
- Oklahoma State University, Associate Professor, Economics, July 2014 - June 2018
- Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor, Economics, August 2008 - June 2014
- 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