Department of Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest:

• Economic Demography  
• Labor Economics
• Development Economics
• Human Resources & Income Distribution

Recent Publications:

Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (with B. Oleko Tambashe), University of Chicago Press, 2003. [Table of Contents].

“Confiage d’enfants et nivellement des inégalités scolaires au Cameroun, 1960-1995,” (with Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue), Cahiers québécois de démographie, Spring 2005, 34 (1): 47-75.

“Family Influences on Women's Educational Attainment in Kinshasa.” In M. Cosio et al., eds., Education, Family and Population Dynamics (selected papers from a CICRED Seminar held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). Paris: Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED), 2003: 281-304.

“Villes et transition de la fécondité en Afrique au sud du Sahara” (with B. Oleko Tambashe), in Thierry Eggerickx et al. (eds.), Populations et défis urbains. Actes de la Chaire Quetelet 1999 (selected papers from the annual Chaire Quetelet symposium in demography). Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Academia-Bruylant/ L’Harmattan, 2003: 605-625.

“An Evaluation of the ‘SIDA dans la Cité’ AIDS Prevention Television Series in Côte d’Ivoire” (with Dominique Meekers and B. Oleko Tambashe), AIDS Care, 2003, 15(3): 303-314.

"Fertility Transition in Urban and Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Preliminary Evidence of a Three-Stage Process" (with B. Oleko Tambashe), Journal of African Policy Studies, Fall 2002, 8 (2 & 3), pp. 103-127.

"Gender, Poverty, Family Structure, and Investments in Children's Education in Kinshasa, Congo" (with B. Oleko Tambashe), Economics of Education Review, 20(4), August 2001, pp. 359-375.

"Education, Employment and Fertility in Kinshasa and Prospects for Changes in Reproductive Behavior" (with B. Oleko Tambashe), Population Research and Policy Review, 16 (3), June 1997, pp. 259-287.

"Fertility Decline in Kinshasa," Population Studies, 50 (1), March 1996, pp. 89-103.

"Racial Differences in Access to High-Paying Jobs and the Wage Gap Between Black and White Women" (with D. Anderson), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 49 (2), January 1996, pp. 273-286.

Research in Progress:

• “Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling” (with Tesfayi
  Gebreselassie).
• “Education and the Labor Market in Kinshasa” (with Roger Pongi and Mark Gough).

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