CV
Basics
| Name | Berk Öktem |
| berk.oktem[@]universite-paris-saclay.fr | |
| Url | https://berkoktem.github.io |
Work
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2025.09 - Present Sceaux, France
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2024.11 - 2025.08 Paris, France
Postdoctoral Fellow
Université Paris-Saclay, PSAE
Worked on the CLAND project under the supervision of Raja Chakir and François Bareille.
- Land-use, climate change
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2024.09 - 2024.10 Bayonne, France
Research assistant
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), TREE
Two-month research assistant contract with Isabelle Chort.
Education
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2020.09 - 2024.10 Bayonne, France
PhD in economics
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), TREE
Shocks and policies: Essays on deforestation, biodiversity, and agriculture
- Land-use, deforestation, agriculture, causal inference
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2017.09 - 2019.08 Bordeaux, France
Graduate degree in development economics
Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux School of Economics (BSE),
Two-year graduate program in development and population economics with a strong emphasis on statistical and causal inference methods.
- Development and population economics, statistics, causal inference
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2012.09 - 2017.08 Istanbul, Turkey
Publications
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2025.09.01 -
2024.05.01 Agricultural shocks, coping policies and deforestation: Evidence from the coffee leaf rust epidemic in Mexico
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 106 (3), pp. 1020-1057
Awards
- 2023.07.03
Best Poster Award
International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE)
The jury would like to highlight the quality of the posters and papers presented by these three prizewinners and warmly congratulate them on their contribution to the conference. The jury is convinced that these prizewinners will continue to excel and contribute to development economics research.
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| French | |
| Fluent |
| Turkish | |
| Native speaker |