Pascaline Dupas
Pascaline Dupas is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University. Dupas’ areas of research are applied microeconomics and development economics. She is currently conducting field experiments in health, education, and microfinance.
Content by Pascaline Dupas
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Enabling microenterprise development in Sub-Saharan Africa through the provision of financial services
Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. In this paper, we combine experimental and survey evidence from Western Kenya to document some of the supply and demand factors behind such low levels of financial inclusion. Our experiment had two parts. In the first part, we waived the fixed cost of opening a basic savings account at a local bank for a random subset...
28 Feb 2019
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Publication - Working Paper
Returns to secondary education: Unpacking the delivery of senior secondary schooling in Ghana
25 Feb 2016 | Pascaline Dupas, Jamie Johnston
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Project
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Some researchers argue that secondary education is likely to have a much larger impact than primary education on long-run earnings, health, fertility, gender equality, and civic and political participation. But expanding secondary education is a significantly more expensive undertaking than providing free primary education. Working with the government of Ghana, this...
4 Sep 2014 | Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Pascaline Dupas
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Blog post
Challenges in banking the rural poor: evidence from Kenya's western province
Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. Without a safe place to save up money, it may be very difficult for people to take advantage of high-return investments of many types. Likewise, without a safe place to keep an emergency cash buffer, vulnerability to shocks might be exacerbated. Recognising this, policymakers and international aid organisations have...
7 Feb 2014 | Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson, Anthony Keats
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Project
Returns to secondary education: Unpacking the delivery of senior secondary schooling in Ghana
Evidence suggests that despite completion of secondary schooling, students in Ghana are not gaining basic skills important for their future success (Anamuah-Mensah, 2011). Furthermore, relatively little information about the quality of secondary school and its relationship to student outcomes currently exists. While policymakers and educators conjecture about the...
1 Nov 2013 | Pascaline Dupas, Jamie Johnston
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Publication - Policy Brief
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Policy Brief)
1 Mar 2012 | Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
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Publication - Working Paper
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Final Report)
1 Mar 2012 | Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
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Publication - Policy Brief
Enabling Microenterprise Development in Sub-Saharan Africa through the Provision of Financial Services (Policy Brief)
31 Dec 2011 | Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson
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Publication - Working Paper
Banking in Kenya held back by fear of 'embezzlement' (Working Paper)
1 Dec 2011 | Pascaline Dupas, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, Jonathan Robinson
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Project
Returns to Education
Evidence suggests that despite completion of secondary schooling, students in Ghana are not gaining basic skills important for their future success (Anamuah-Mensah, 2011). Furthermore, relatively little information about the quality of secondary school and its relationship to student outcomes currently exists. While policymakers and educators conjecture about the...
1 Dec 2010 | Steve Machin, Pascaline Dupas, Jamie Johnston
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Project
Enabling Microenterprise Development in Sub-Saharan Africa through the Provision of Financial Services
People in rural Kenya are so suspicious of banks that even when they are given strong financial incentives to open an account, many choose not to, according recent IGC research by Pascaline Dupas (Stanford) and Jonathan Robinson (UC Santa Cruz). The researchers set up a social experiment to look at the reasons why so few people in rural Kenya have back accounts, in the hope...
1 Aug 2010 | Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats