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D'Hombres, Béatrice: beatrice.d'hombres@jrc.it

Research areas: Economics of education; labour economics; applied econometrics.
 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Professional Experience

  • From April 2006 - researcher at CRELL in the economics of education

  • 2005: External consultant to the World Health Organisation

  • 2004-05: Post-doctoral researcher at the Dept. of Economics, University of Padua, under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Brunello (Marie-Curie Fellowship); Research Training Network on "The Economics of Education and Education Policy."

  • 2000-04: Teaching assistant, University of Auvergne (Dept. of Economics)

  • 2002: Summer fellowship at the Instituto de Saùde Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. Research on the Brazilian labour market and health economics.

  • 1999: Internship at the French Foreign Aid Agency. Analysis of the financial structure of small and medium-sized enterprises in Benin.

Education

  • 2000-04: Ph.D. in Economics, "Essais sur les disparités de revenu, l’éducation et la discrimination raciale: analyses macroéconomique et microéconomique," supervised by Prof. JL. Arcand.

  • 1999-2000:  DEA and DESS in Economics, CERDI, University of Auvergne.

  • 1998-99: MA in Economics, CERDI, University of Auvergne.

Main Publications

  • Does social capital determine health? Evidence from eight CIS countries? (with M. McKee, L. Rocco, M. Suhrcke). Health Economics, forthcoming.

  • Does Formal Education Have an Impact on Active Citizenship Behaviour? European Educational Research Journal, forthcoming, 2008 (with B. Hoskins).

  • Does Obesity Hurts Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP. Economics and Human Biology, 5(1), 2007: 1-19 (with G. Brunello).

  • Racial Discrimination in the Brazilian Labour Market: Wage, Employment and Segregation Effects. Journal of International Development, 16(8), 2004:1053-1066 (with JL. Arcand).

  • Rendement de l'éducation et choix des instruments. Application sur données vietnamiennes. Revue Economique, 56(3), 2005 (with JL. Arcand, P. Gyselinck).

Other publications

  • Discrimination Raciale au Brésil: Mythe ou Réalité, Revue d'Auvergne, 585,  2007 : 353-367.

  • El Impacto del Proceso de Bolonia en el Abandono de los Estudios Universitarios : El Caso de Italia, Convergencia de los Estudios Superiores y de la Formacion Profesional en Europa. Fundación Europea Sociedad y Educación  2007 : 151-167.

Papers under review

  • Explaining the Negative Coefficient Associated with Human Capital in Augmented Solow Growth Regressions (with JL. Arcand). Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL, 0510010. Under revision for Journal of Macroeconomics.

  • Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam (with JL. Arcand, P. Gyselinck). Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL, 0510011. Under revision for Economics of Education Review.

Working papers

  • A Critical Assessment of International University Ranking Systems using Sensitivity Analysis Methods (2008). JRC Scientific and Technical Reports 23487. (with M. Saisana)

  • The Impact of the Bologna Process on University Dropouts: Evidence from Italy (2007). JRC Scientific and Technical Reports 22733.

  • Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Individual Effects:   A Note (with JL. Arcand). Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL, 0510007.

Presentations at conferences and seminars

  • 2008: Economics of Education Conference, Athens, Greece.
             RC33, Naples, Italy.
             Meeting of the Expert Group on Indicators on Education for Active Citizenship, European Commission DG Education and Culture.

  • 2007: XXII National Conference of Labor Economics, Naples, Italy.
             Conference on Composite Indicators, University of Palermo, Italy.
             Conference on Social Capital, University of Trento, Italy.

  • 2006: Summer school, organized by the Network on Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe (EEPEE), Italy.
             Workshop hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

  • 2005: European Panel Users Network, Colchester, UK.
             Seminar, University of Padua, Italy.
             Education and Education Policy in Europe, organized by the Network on Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe (EEPEE), Sweden.

  • 2004: SESAME French Meeting, Pau, France.
             53rd annual meeting of the French Economic Association, Paris, France.
             JMA, Applied Microeconomics French Meeting, Lilles, France.
             7th IZAEuropean Summer School in Labor Economics in Buch am Ammersee, Germany.
             Seminar, CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont I, France.

  • 2003: Labor Market in the Era of Globalization, Gdansk University, Poland.

  • 2002: Seminar of economic development, CERDI TEAM and ROSES, Clermont 1, France.

Others

  • Referee for Revue d'Economie du Développement, Economics and Human Biology, European Journal of Public Health.