I am a PhD fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) and a team member at the Living Standards Measurement unit of the World Bank. Prior to these roles, I worked for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). In my research, I collect and use survey microdata as well as large administrative datasets to investigate questions centering around economic shocks to vulnerable populations and public finance in low- and middle-income countries. Often, these projects use field or methodological experiments and aim to provide new evidence on hard-to-measure but policy-relevant issues. I hold a postgraduate degree with distinction in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.

You can find my CV with an overview of the projects I am currently working on here.

	Selected publications by Yannick Valentin Markhof
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Wollburg, Philip, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Shelton Kanyanda & Alberto Zezza, 2023, Assessing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and barriers to uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa, Communications Medicine, 3(121), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00330-9, More information
Wollburg, Philip, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Shelton Kanyanda & Alberto Zezza, 2023, The evolution of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel survey data, BMC Proceedings, 17(7), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-023-00266-x, More information
Kanyanda, Shelton, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Philip Wollburg & Alberto Zezza, 2021, Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Six National Phone Surveys, BMJ Open, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055159
External working papers
Wollburg, Philip, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Thomas Bentze & Giulia Ponzini, 2024, The Impacts of Disasters on African Agriculture: New Evidence from Micro-Data, More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Philip Wollburg & Alberto Zezza, 2023, Are Vaccination Campaigns Misinformed? Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Giulia Ponzini & Philip Wollburg, 2022, Measuring Disaster Crop Production Losses Using Survey Microdata: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9968, More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, 2020, Pakistan’s social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the adequacy of Ehsaas Emergency Cash and the road ahead, IPC-IG Working Paper No. 188, More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, 2020, Divide to Conquer? Latent Preference Types and Country-level Heterogeneity, CSAE Working Paper, More information
Research reports
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Isabella Franciscon, Nicolo Bird & Pedro Arruda, 2021, Social assistance programmes in South Asia: an analysis of socio-economic impacts, Report commissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), More information
Arruda, Pedro, Yannick Valentin Markhof, Charlotte Bilo, Isabella Franciscon & Wesley Silva, 2020, Overview of non-contributory social protection programmes in South Asia from a child and equity perspective, Report comissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), More information
Markhof, Yannick Valentin, Fabio Veras Soares, Nicolo Bird, Beatriz Burattini & Elise Chretien, 2020, Socio-economic impacts of COVID-19, policy responses and the missing middle in South Asia, Report commissioned by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), More information