Overview
Marc Jeuland is a Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, with a joint appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute. His research interests include nonmarket valuation, water and sanitation, environmental health, energy poverty and transitions, trans-boundary water resource planning and management, and the impacts and economics of climate change.
Jeuland's recent research includes work to understand the economic implications of climate change for water resources projects on transboundary river systems, a range of primary data collection projects related to analysis of adoption of environmental health improving technology, and analysis of the costs and benefits of environmental health interventions in developing countries. He has conducted multiple field experiments on issues such as: the role of water quality information in affecting household water and hygiene behaviors; the demand for, and impacts of cleaner cookstoves on household well-being; the long-term sustainability and effects of rural sanitation and water supply projects. He has also collected data on preferences for a range of environmental health improvements including cholera vaccines, household water treatment technologies and improved cookstoves. In the energy and development domain, he is currently working on several projects with the Energy Access Project at Duke, and is a co-founder of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI), along with Professor Subhrendu Pattanayak and scholars from Chile, China and Ethiopia. His energy portfolio includes work related to evaluation of cleaner cooking interventions, measuring energy access and reliability, and reviews of the drivers and impacts literature related to energy.
Jeuland has worked in the past with the World Bank, USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, UNICEF, and many field-based NGOs and community-based implementing organizations.
Prior to his graduate studies and work with the World Bank, Jeuland was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, where he designed and monitored construction of a pilot wastewater treatment system and trained management personnel at the plant’s managing firm.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
The use and impacts of an ethanol cooking fuel promotion pilot in Dar es Salaam
Journal Article Energy for Sustainable Development · June 1, 2025 Ensuring access to affordable and clean energy resources (as articulated in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7) is critical to achieving a range of human development outcomes. Numerous studies have examined how clean cooking technology can, under the rig ... Full text CiteDoes the payment vehicle matter for valuing improved electricity reliability? A discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia
Journal Article Utilities Policy · April 1, 2025 Frequent and prolonged power outages severely impede business operations in many developing countries. Given resource constraints, estimating the value of improved electricity reliability in such contexts is crucial for justifying related investments. This ... Full text CiteMetals in honey from bees as a proxy for environmental contamination in the United States.
Journal Article Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · January 2025 This is the first large bio-surveillance study examining the contents and geographic variation of metals of public health concern-arsenic (As), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), and cobalt (Co)-in honey samples collected across the Unite ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Benin II Off-Grid Energy Access Project Evaluation
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Social Impact · 2018 - 2026Powering Progress: A Multidimensional Approach to Assessing and Improving Energy Access at Health Facilities
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Link Foundation · 2024 - 2026INFEWS: US-China Food-Energy-Water Feedback Mechanism, Integrated Modeling and Coordinated Management: A Comparative Study of the China Jing-Jin-Ji Region and US Central Valley, CA
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2021 - 2026View All Grants