Bity DIENE Curriculum Vitae Office contact University of Clermont Auvergne, CERDI 26 Avenue Léon Blum 63000 Clermont-Ferrand Tel.: +33 473 27 10 43 gsm.fr: +33 650 689 622 E-mail: [email protected] Recent employment history 2011- Associate Professor in Economics, University of Clermont Auvergne and CERDI. 2009-2010: Research associate at Consortium for Social and Economic Research (Dakar). 2008-2009: Post-doctoral fellowship (granted by AXA Group): University of Luxembourg. 2003-2008: Research and teaching assistant, University of Strasbourg. Education - November 2016: Habilitation (accreditation to supervise research), University of Auvergne- France. - 2003-2007: Doctoral Thesis in Economics (University of Strasbourg and Université Catholique de Louvain, IRES). Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: Four Essays on the Relationship Between Longevity and Development: The Impact of Epi- demics. - 2002-2003: Master in Economics Analysis (Maîtrise d’Analyse Politique et Economique, Emploi et Innovation; DEA d’Analyse Économique : Économie Quantitative), Strasbourg- France. - 2000-2002: Bachelor in Economics (DEUG de Sciences Économiques; Licence d’Analyse Politique et Economique, Emploi et Innovation) Dakar-Senegal. Honors (scholarships) - 2008-2009: Post-doctoral fellowship granted by AXA Group. - 2003-2006: Research allowance of the French Ministry of Education and Research. - 2000-2001: Scholarship of the University Agency of the French-speaking World. - 1996-1999: Scholarship of the Senegalese National Ministry of Education. Research Research Interest - Development economics: Development economics, health, education, demography, epidemi- ology, environment, social protection, innovation. - Methods: Growth theory, Overlapping Generations Models, applied econometrics. 1 Journal Articles 1. “HIV/AIDS and Development: A Reappraisal of the Productivity and Factor Accumula- tion Effects” (with Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine), American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106(5), pp. 472-77. 2. “Human Capital Productivity, Endogenous Growth and Welfare: The Role of Uncertainty” (with Théophile Azomahou, Mbaye Diene), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016, vol. 20(8). 3. “Optimal Health Investment and Preference Structure” (with Théophile Azomahou, Mbaye Diene, Luc Soete), Economic Theory, 2015, vol. 60(3), pp. 521-565. 4. “Nonlinearities in Productivity Growth: A Semi-parametric Panel Analysis” (with Théophile Azomahou, Mbaye Diene), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, vol. 24, pp. 45-75. 5. “Estimating Returns to Higher Education: A Survey of Models, Methods and Empirical Evidence” (with Abdoulaye Diagne), Journal of African Economies 2011, vol. 20, 80-132. 6. “A Closer Look at the Relationship between Life Expectancy and Economic Growth” (with Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine) International Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, vol. 5(2), 201-244. 7. “Growth Economics of Epidemics: Review of the Theory” (with Raouf Boucekkine, Théophile Azomahou), Mathematical Population Studies, 2008, vol. 15(1), 1-26. 8. “On the Relationship between Longevity and Economic Development” (with Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine), International Journal of Ecology and Development 2007, vol. 6, 31-50. Selected Ongoing Papers 1. “The gift of longevity: Age-specific mortality, health expenditure and economic growth’ (with Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine). 2. “Social protection and informality” (with Théophile Azomahou, Mbaye Diene). 3. “Demographic change, human capital accumulation and health expenditure: An empirical analysis”. 4. “Environment, innovation and firms performance: Evidence from developing economies’ (with Théophile Azomahou, Nguyen Van Phu). Selected Conferences - “HIV/AIDS and development: A reappraisal of the productivity and factor accumulation effects” (with Théophile Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine), 2016 AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA. - “The gift of longevity: Age-structure, health and development” (with Théophile Azoma- hou, Raouf Boucekkine), 6th Conference on Micro Evidence on Innovation in Developing Economies (MEIDE), 21-23 November, Cape Town, South Africa. - Nonlinearities in Productivity Growth: A Semi-parametric Panel Analysis” (with Théophile Azomahou, Mbaye Diene), 18th International Panel Data Conference, 5-6 July 2012, Paris. 2.