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Maryland Population Research Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series

This seminar was cancelled due to snow emergency.

SPEAKER:	Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue Assistant Professor Rural Sociology, Cornell University
TITLE:	Can Family Planning Programs Help Close Gender Gaps in Education? Theory, Simulation & Application to African Countries
DATE:	Fri. Feb 7, 2003
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996 and is currently Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. He is also an affiliate at the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell. His areas of interest are population trends, human capital formation, and socioeconomic change in developing countries, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. He has recently completed a national survey in Cameroon to study recent changes in fertility, educational enrollments and inequalities, unemployment, and family formation and structure in the context of the economic crises of the 1990's. His recent publications include "Will Economic Crises in Africa Weaken Rural-Urban Solidarity? Evidence from Cameroon" in Rural Sociology.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2003.shtml