Seminar Series: Effects of Demographic Transitions on Schooling: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

About the Speaker

My research covers three related areas that include the sociology of education, social change, and the demography of inequality. I have recently developed a conceptual and analytical framework for estimating how much contemporary demographic transitions in developing countries stand to affect the formation of human capital in these regions. I am currently applying this framework to study these dividends in six African countries. This work is relevant to current policy efforts to expand schooling in developing countries but also to unanswered scientific questions about the dividends from demorgaphic transitions vary across countries. Much of my outreach work for the last year has been through collaboration with other institutions such as the United Nations and the World Bank on poverty reduction and gender issues. I plan to work more closely with organizations that are both more focused thematically and closer to the ground. 

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