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David SahnDavid E. Sahn is a professor of economics at Cornell University , and director of the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program.Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 1989 , Professor Sahn was an economist with the World Bank and a Research Associate with the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C..He holds a visiting appointment with the Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Paris , Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( 1998-99 ) , and has also served as Visiting Scholar with the International Monetary Fund.Professor Sahn has written widely on issues of economic policy , living standards and food security in Africa , Asia and Eastern Europe.Among his recent publications have been Dominance Testing of Transfers in Romania , Review of Income and Wealth , September , 2000 ; Schooling of Girls and Boys in a West African Country : The Effects of Parental Education , Income , and Household Structure , Economics of Education Review 19 , 1999 ; Maternal Labour and Child Nutrition in West Africa , Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 60 , 3 1998 ; and Structural Adjustment Reconsidered : Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa , Cambridge University Press 1997.Professor Sahn earned a M.P.H. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.For more details see his online bio at Cornell University.