Dr. Elodie Blanc

Research Scientist
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Center for Global Change Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E19-411D
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
+1 617-324-2037 • • http://mit.edu/eblanc

Biography

Dr Elodie Blanc is a Research Scientist at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Her research focuses on agricultural economics.

Education

M.Com., Economics of Sustainable Development, Environment and Energy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, 2006.

Ph.D., Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2011. Dissertation: The impact of climate change on crop production in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• 24. Blanc É., Aggregation of gridded emulated rainfed crop yield projections at the national or regional level, Journal of Global Economic Analysis, 2(2):112-127, 2017.
• 23. Blanc É., Schlenker W., The use of panel models in assessments of climate impacts on agriculture, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 11(2): 258-279, 2017.
• 22. Blanc É., Reilly J.M., Approaches to assessing climate change impacts on agriculture: an overview of the debate, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 11(2), 247-257, 2017.
• 21. Blanc É., Caron J., Fant C. and Monier E., Is current irrigation sustainable in the United States? An integrated assessment of climate change impact on water resources and irrigated crop yields, Earth’s future, 5(8), 877–892, 2017.
• 20. Blanc É., Statistical emulators of maize, rice, soybean and wheat yields from global gridded crop models, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 236, 2017.
• 19. Blanc É. and Strobl E., The impact of typhoons on rice production in the Philippines, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55, 2016.
• 18. Blanc É., Lépine A, and Strobl E., Determinants of family farms efficiency: evidence from the Senegal River Valley, Experimental Agriculture, 52(1), 2016.
• 17. Lépine A, Chandrashekar S., Le Nestour A., Blanc É., and Vassall, A., Effect of scaling-up HIV prevention services on cost: Evidence from the Avahan initiative in India, Social Science and Medicine, 131, 164-172, 2015.
• 16. Blanc É. and Sultan B., Emulating maize yields from global gridded crop models using statistical estimates, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 214, 134-147, 2015.
• 15. Blanc É. and Strobl E., Water availability and crop growth at the crop plot level in South Africa modelled from satellite imagery, The Journal of Agricultural Science, 153(2), 306-321, 2015.
• 14. Blanc É. and Reilly J.M., Climate change impacts on U.S. Crops, Choices, 30(2), 2015.
• 13. Blanc É. and Strobl E., Is small better? A comparison of the effect of large versus small dams on cropland productivity in South Africa, The World Bank Economic Review, 28(3), 545-576, 2014.
• 12. Schlosser C.A., Strzepek K.M., Gao X., Gueneau A., Fant C., Paltsev S., Rasheed B., Smith-Greico T., Blanc É., Jacoby H.D., and Reilly J.M., The future of global water stress: an integrated assessment, Earth’s Future, 2(8), 341-361, 2014.
• 11. Blanc É., Strzepek K., Schlosser C.A., Gueneau A., Fant C., Rausch S. and Reilly J.M., Modeling U.S. water resources under climate change, Earth’s Future, 2(4), 197-224, 2014.
• 10. Valin H., Sands R.D., van der Mensbrugghe D, Ahammad H., Bodirsky B., Hasegawa T., Havlík P., Kyle P., Mason-D’Croz D., Paltsev S., Tabeau A., Blanc É, Fujimori S., Heyhoe E., van Meijl H., Rolinski S., Willenbockel D., von Lampe M. and Nelson GD., The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models, Agricultural Economics, 45(1), 51-67, 2014.
• 9. Nelson G.D., van der Mensbrugghe D., Blanc É., Calvin K., Hasegawa T., Havlíik P., Kyle P., Lotze-Campen H., von Lampe M., Mason d'Croz D., van Meijl H., Müller C., Reilly J., Robertson R., Sands R.D., Schmitz C., Tabeau A., Takahashi K. and Valin H., Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: Why don't the models agree?, Agricultural Economics, 45(1), 85-101, 2014.
• 8. von Lampe M., Willenbockel D., Blanc É., Cai Y., Calvin K., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Havlik P., Kyle P., Lotze-Campen H., Mason d’Croz D., Nelson G.D., Sands R.D., Schmitz C., Tabeau ., Valin H., van der Mensbrugghe D. and van Meijl H., Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP global economic model intercomparison, Agricultural Economics, 45(1), 3-20, 2014.
• 7. Schmitz C., van Meijl H., Kyle P., Fujimori S., Gurgel A., Havlik P., Mason d’Croz D., Popp A., Sands R., Tabeau A., van der Mensbrugghe D., von Lampe M., Wise M., Blanc É., Hasegawa T. and Valin H., Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison, Agricultural Economics, 45(1), 69-84, 2014.
• 6. Blanc É., Crop supply in Sub-Saharan Africa and climate change impacts, Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics, 5(9), 337-350, 2013.
• 5. Strzepek K., Schlosser C.A., Gueneau A., Gao X., Blanc É., Fant C., Rasheed B. and Jacoby H.D., Modeling water resource systems within the framework of the MIT Integrated Global System Model: IGSM-WRS, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 5(1), 1-16, 2013.
• 4. Blanc É. and Strobl E., Climate change and net primary productivity (NPP) at the river basin scale in Africa, Climatic Change, 117(4), 873-890, 2013.
• 3. Blanc É. and Winchester N.S., The impact of the EU emissions trading system on air passenger arrivals in the Caribbean, Journal of Travel Research, 52(3), 353-363, 2013.
• 2. Blanc É., The impact of climate change on crop yields in Sub-Saharan Africa, American Journal of Climate Change, 1(1), 1-13, 2012.
• 1. Blanc É., Quirion P. and Strobl E., The climatic determinants of cotton yields: evidence from a plot in West Africa, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148(6-7), 1093-1100, 2008.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• 3. Bellora C., Blanc É., Bourgeon J.M. and Strobl E., Estimating the impact of crop diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa, NBER book series (W. Schlencker Ed.), University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
• 2. Blanc É. and Reilly J.M., Chapter 76: Climate change and food situation, Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (J. Shogren Eds.), Elsevier Science, 22-29, 2013.
• 1. Reilly J.M. and Blanc É., Economics of agricultural impacts, adaptation and mitigation, Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems (D. Hillel, and C. Rosenzweig Eds.), Imperial College Press, 403-427, 2010.