About
Wouter Gelade is a researcher at Université de Namur, with an academic focus on development economics and applied econometrics. His work spans microinsurance, agricultural investment in low-income countries, public health policy, and formal languages in computer science.
His research interests include:
- Development Economics (Burkina Faso, cotton insurance, joint-liability groups)
- Public Health Policy (work incapacity evaluation in Belgium, ICF core-sets)
- Formal Languages and XML Schema (automata theory, regular expressions, schema languages)
- Labor economics (household labor supply, green transition workforce challenges)
Recent publications analyze index insurance spillovers in Burkina Faso, fair trade's redistributive impacts, and Belgium’s sick pay policies. His work contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals through poverty reduction and economic resilience strategies.
Key scientific contributions include
- Time-efficient algorithms for robust statistical estimators (2015)
- Landmark studies on joint-liability group monitoring (2018, 2022)
- Pioneering microinsurance demand literature reviews (2012, 2017)
- Automata theory applications to XML schema optimization (2006-2010)
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