Wendy Janssens
Africa, India
Curriculum vitae
| 1974 | born in Turnhout (Belgium) on July 31 |
| 1992-1998 | studied business economics, University of Maastricht |
| 1993-1995 | studies law (BA), University of Maastricht |
| 1996 | University of Barcelona, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Spain |
| 1999-2000 | research assistant, Free University of Amsterdam, Development Economics; |
| financial-economic advisor, Department of Planning and Control, Hogeschool van Amsterdam | |
| 2000-2001 | consultant, World Bank, Human Development Network, Washington DC |
| 2001-2003 | M.Phil. in Economics, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, graduation May 2003 |
| 2002-2004 | consultant for the World Bank, Washington DC |
| 2005 | consultant for the Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague |
| 2006- … | research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for International Development |
| 2007 | PhD under the supervision of J. van der Gaag and J.W. Gunning, Free University of Amsterdam |
| 2008 | visiting scholar, World Bank Development Economics Research Group, Washington |
| 2008-2009 | visiting scholar, Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies, Institute of Fiscal Studies, University College London |
| 2010-present | post-doctoral researcher, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, the Free University Amsterdam |
Sources
- personal webpage, Free University of Amsterdam
Publications
Janssens wrote many publications on regions other than South Asia, especially Africa. These are not included.
2004 & Jacques van de Gaag and Jan Willem Gunning, “The role of social capital in early childhood development: evidence from rural India.” AIID report January 2004.
2005 Measuring externalities in program evaluation: spillover effects of a women’s empowerment programme in rural India, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series TI 05-017/02.
– “Indiase vrouwengroepen en de effectiviteit van ontwikkelingsprogramma’s,” (= “Indian women’s groups and the effectiveness of development programmes”). Vuurwerk May 2005, VU University Amsterdam.
2007 Social capital and cooperation: an impact evaluation of a women’s empowerment programme in rural India, [Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 2007] (Tinbergen Institute Research Series 401). – PhD thesis Free University of Amsterdam.
2010 “Women’s empowerment and the creation of social capital in Indian villages.” World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 38,7: 974-989.