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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Publication - Project Report
Households' attitudes towards school reopening during COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Evidence from phone surveys
This report highlights key results from a phone survey of households in Addis Ababa and Oromia during the winter of 2020. Results focus on the ways in which labour market and educational outcomes were affected by COVID-19.
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Publication - Policy Brief
Households’ attitudes towards schools reopening during COVID-19 in Ethiopia
This policy brief reports on the findings from a phone survey focusing on educational outcomes and plans in Ethiopia and how they were affected by COVID-19. The survey was conducted with households living in Addis Ababa and neighbouring areas of Oromia in the fall of 2020. It documents how parents and children responded to the reopening of schools. Prior to...
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Project
Stanford Economic Development Research Initiative (SEDRI): COVID-19 response survey
With a population of over 100 million and a rapidly growing yet fragile economy, the economic impacts of COVID-19 for Ethiopia will undoubtedly be massive. Indeed, export-oriented sectors have already been damaged and current year growth projections slashed. Since 2016, the Stanford Economic Development Research Initiative (SEDRI) has built detailed panel datasets for...
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Data Item
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...
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Publication - Working Paper
Returns to secondary education: Unpacking the delivery of senior secondary schooling in Ghana
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Policy Brief)
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Publication - Working Paper
Estimating the Benefit to Secondary School in Africa (Final Report)
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Publication - Working Paper
Banking in Kenya held back by fear of 'embezzlement' (Working Paper)
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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...
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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...