Salvatore is a Professor of Environmental Economics. His research focuses on the intersection between environmental and development economics using econometric models. He has analyzed the contribution of natural resources such as biodiversity on agricultural productivity, food security, and weather risk in arid environments. His work also focuses on the role of institutional structures (common property forests) on natural resource conservation, rural development and poverty reduction. More recent work includes the impact of social capital and traditional sharing norms on consumption, saving accumulation, investment decisions and adaptation to climate change.

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Selected recent publications

2018

Salvatore Di Falco, Francesco Feri, Paolo Pin and Xavier Vollenweider. Ties That Bind: Network  Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies. Forthcoming on the Journal of Development Economics 
(www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387817301074 )

Salvatore Di Falco and Ferdinand Vieider. Assimilation of Risk Preferences in Couples.  Forthcoming on Economic Inquiry 
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12531/epdf)

2017

Jean-Paul Chavas and Salvatore Di Falco. Resilience, Weather and Dynamic Adjustments in Agroecosystems: The Case of Wheat Yield in England. 
Environmental and Resource Economics. 67(2)

2015

Salvatore Di Falco and Erwin Bulte (2015). Does Social Capital Affect Human Capital? Family Ties and Schooling Decisions. Applied Economics. 47(2)

2014

Erwin Bulte, Gonne Beekman, Salvatore Di Falco, Lei Pan, and Joseph Hella. Behavioral responses and the impact of new agricultural technologies: Evidence from a double-blind field experiment in Tanzania.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96 (3)

Salvatore Di Falco and Marcella Veronesi . Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. 
Environmental and Resource Economics 57 (4)

2013 

Salvatore Di Falco and Marcella Veronesi. How African Agriculture Can Adapt to Climate Change? Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia. Land Economics - November 
Saraly Andrade de Sa, Charles Palmer and Salvatore Di Falco. Dynamics of Indirect Land-Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Brazil. 
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 65(3)

Salvatore Di Falco and Erwin Bulte. The Impact of Kinship Network on the Adoption of Risk-Mitigating Strategies in Ethiopia. World Development.  43                                      

2012

Jean-Paul Chavas and Salvatore Di Falco. Valuing the Contribution of Biodiversity to Ecosystem Services: Evidence From the Highlands of Ethiopia. Land Economics  88 (1) 

Jean-Paul Chavas and Salvatore Di Falco. On the Role of Risk versus Economies of Scope in Farm Diversification with an Application to Ethiopian Farms.
​Journal of Agricultural Economics. 63(1)

2011

Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi and Mahmud Yesuf . Does Adaptation to Climate Change provides Food Security? A Micro Perspective from Ethiopia. 
​American Journal of Agricultural Economics  93 (3) 
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Salvatore Di Falco and Erwin Bulte. A Dark Side of Social Capital? Kinship Consumption and Savings (2011).  
​Journal of Development Studies Vol. 47, No. 8 





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