Christelle Dumas
Lecturer at Université Cergy-Pontoise

THEMA
33, bd du Port 95011 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex
C149

00-33.1.34.25.72.76
Mail : christelle.dumasu-cergy.fr

Research CV Teaching International Relations

I am a development microeconomist: for the past few years, I have been working on education, child labour, inequalities dynamics and markets imperfections in West Africa. I participated to collection of household surveys in Senegal and in Madagascar. If you want to know more, follow the link Research.

I have given several microeconomics and econometrics courses. You will find some of the course material following the Teaching link.

To see my CV page.

Research

Development microeconomics, behaviour of (rural) households, investment in human capital, child labour, dynamics of inequalities, markets imperfections.

Papers

- Book -

Travail et Education des enfants dans les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG., 2008.

- Published papers -

Does work impede child learning? the case of Senegal, forthcoming in Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Early schooling and later outcomes: Evidence from pre-school extension in France, with Arnaud Lefranc, forthcoming in Cross-National Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, eds. J. Ermisch, M. Jäntti, and T. Smeeding, Russell Sage Foundation..

Educational achievement and socioeconomic background: causality and mechanisms in Senegal, with Sylvie Lambert, Journal of African Economies, 2011. Additional tables here.

Chocs et dynamiques des choix d’allocation du temps des enfants au Sénégal, Cahiers du Cedimes, April 2010.

Why do parents make their children work? A test of the poverty hypothesis in rural areas of Burkina Faso, Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 59 (2), April 2007.

Analysis of parental decisions on child labour: the case of Brazil, (only available in French): Revue d’Economie du Developpement , n°1, 2004.

- Unpublished working papers -

Market imperfections and child labor, Working Paper THEMA, 2011.

- Wide audience -

Le travail des enfants: quelles politiques pour quels résultats?, with S. Lambert, opuscule Cepremap n°11.

- Thesis -

Offre de travail des enfants et demande d'education dans les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest (only available in French) and its summary.

Surveys

I have participated in the design and collection of a household survey in Senegal, called "Education et Bien-Etre des Menages au Senegal" (EBMS) . The survey follows a PASEC survey, that took place from 1995 to 1999 and that tested children enrolled in school in order to evaluate the impact of school quality on their results. The EBMS survey attempts to complete the perspective by providing information on the demand side, namely at the household level. The survey is constituted by 3 surveys: the household one, the community one and the school one. The data are available on request and the questionnaire are downloadable here: household.pdf, rural community.pdf, urban community.pdf, school.pdf.

I am currently working on the impact evaluation of a social fund in Madagascar. A 2-rounds survey has been designed for assessing the impact of infrastructures building on a variety of indicators (schooling, health, activity...)

Data compilation on child labor

S. Lambert and myself compiled data on child labor for the publication of Le travail des enfants: quelles politiques pour quels résultats? We wish a) to thank Laurent Bach for the excellent research assistance he provided us and b) to make these data publicly available in order to help people have some figures at hand when they think about child labor.

This excel file includes:

participation to economic activities computed using 2 different sources for a range of countries (A1)
participation to economic activities, by gender (A2)
participation to different activities by gender (economic activity only, schooling only, both, none) (A3)
proportion of children who perform more than 28 hours of domestic work in a week (A4)
share of agriculture in employment: for children and for total workforce (A5)
share of population living in an urban zone: children workers and total population (A6)
participation rate to economic activity and schooling by income quintile (A7)

Data compilation on child labor

for other data, see also Edmonds (2007).

CV (or my professional life in short)

To download my CV in pdf, click here: in English, in French.

Current position

Oct 2006-...: Lecturer at the University Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA.

2008-...: Associate member of the EUropean Development Network.

Previous positions

2005-2006: Temporary lecturer at the London School of Economics, Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)

2004-2005: Temporary lecturer at the University Paris-Dauphine.

2001-2004: CREST scholarship for my Ph.D.

Awards

2009: Institute Cedimes Prize

Education

2001-2005: Ph. D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Thesis title: "Children labour supply and education demand in Sub-Saharan countries". Ph. D. supervisors: Sylvie Lambert and Francois Bourguignon. Jury: T. Magnac, E. Sadoulet, P. de Vreyer, M. Gurgand, E. Maurin. Defended on the 9th December 2005. Distinction: Tres honorable, felicitations a l'unanimite du jury, proposition pour prix de these et subvention pour publication.

2000-2001: DEA of Development Economics, Universite Paris I - Sorbonne.

1998-2001: Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE).

Current Teaching

Development economics, M1 U. of Cergy-Pontoise.

Development economics, ENSAE.

Advanced Linear Econometrics, M2 Ingénierie Economique, U. of Cergy-Pontoise.

Microeconomics L1, U. of Cergy-Pontoise.

International Relations

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Last update: January 29th, 2012.