Introduction
Christine Valente is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK and an IZA Research Fellow. Her main research interests lie in household decisions regarding fertility and human capital investments such as child education and child health. She has published a number of studies of secondary datasets from Africa and Asia using a range of microeconometric policy evaluation methods in, among others, the Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Health Economics. More recently, she has led complex projects involving primary data collection in Mozambique, namely a large randomized controlled trial project co-funded by the World Bank and the International Growth Centre ("Preventing excess female school dropout in Mozambique") and research on subjective beliefs and demand for contraception funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Expert
Christine Valente is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK and an IZA Research Fellow. Her main research interests lie in household decisions regarding fertility and human capital investments such as child education and child health. She has published a number of studies of secondary datasets from Africa and Asia using a range of microeconometric policy evaluation methods in, among others, the Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Health Economics. More recently, she has led complex projects involving primary data collection in Mozambique, namely a large randomized controlled trial project co-funded by the World Bank and the International Growth Centre ("Preventing excess female school dropout in Mozambique") and research on subjective beliefs and demand for contraception funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Website: https://www.christinevalente.com/
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Education, Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Gender equality, Health and wellbeing, Monitoring and evaluation