Elena Serfilippi

Staff

Elena Serfilippi, PhD is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) expert with extensive experience in quantitative research in the field of Agro and Behavioural Economics, Sustainability and Resilience.

She is an experienced researcher and thought leader with track record of bringing together best practices across academia, public, and private sectors. She is a seasoned trainer with flair for transforming complex systems into simple and effective tools.

Before joining KIT, Elena worked in Africa, Latin America and the USA.

Publications

Serfilippi, E., M. Carter, and C. Guirkinger. 2019. “Insurance Contracts when Farmers “Greatly Value Certainty:” Results from Field Experiments in Burkina Faso”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Article in press.

Serfilippi. and Ramnath, G. 2017. “Resilience Measurement and Conceptual frameworks: A review of the literature”. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, doi:10.1111/apce.12202

Carter, M., G. Elabed, and E. Serfilippi. 2015. “Behavioural Economic insights on the design of Index Insurance Contracts”, Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 75, N. 1.

Guidance manual on calculating and visualizing income gap to a Living Income Benchmark

The Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP) has identified the need for guidance to support researchers and practitioners in assessing the gap between actual farming household incomes and estimates of the Living Income Benchmark in a particular location

Authors

Marcelo Tyszler, Carlos De Los Rios, Elena Serflippi , Genevieve Audet-Belanger , Anna Laven

Year of Publication

2020

Downloads
Download KIT Guidance Measuring and visualizing the gap

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