Martine Visser
Professor
Economics
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Biography
Martine Visser is a Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Martine is currently a Research Chair with the African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI). She is also associated with various research units within the School of Economics, including the Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU), the Research Unit of Behavioral and Neuro-economics Research (RUBEN) and the South African Labour Development Research Unit (SALDRU).
Research Interest
Martine specializes in behavioural economic applications to climate change, natural resource use, health and poverty alleviation. She is interested in how social norms and preferences such as trust, cooperation and risk aversion impact on decision making. Martine mainly uses experimental methods (in the lab and in the field) combined with survey analysis and randomized control trials. Recent experimental and empirical studies have focused on cooperation and risk related to climate change, risky sexual behavior and social norms. She is also involved in several projects investigating the role of local governance and social institutions in the provision of basic services to the poor and its effects on subjective wellbeing.
Publications
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2015-09-29 SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA Investigating the sensitivity of household food security to agriculture-related shocks and the implication of social and natural capital
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2016-01-12 SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA Climate change and South Africa’s commercial farms: an assessment of impacts on specialised horticulture, crop, livestock and mixed farming systems
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2016-08-26 SOUTH AFRICA TANZANIA Assessing Gender Inequality in Food Security amongst Small-holder Farm Households in urban and rural South Africa
