Christelle Dumas
Assistant Professor at Université Cergy-Pontoise

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

00-33.1.34.25.72.76
Mail : christelle.dumas
u-cergy.fr

 

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Thema

             Research            CV        Teaching        International Relations


Research

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

Papers

- Published papers -

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

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.

- Books and chapters -

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..

Le travail des enfants: quelles politiques pour quels résultats?, with S. Lambert, opuscule Cepremap n°11, 2008.

Travail et Education des enfants dans les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG., 376p, 2008. 

- Working papers -

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

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:

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-...: Assistant Professor 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: "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

(Presque) tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour partir en mobilité

 


Last update: March 5th, 2012.

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