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Wendy Janssens (PhD Tinbergen Institute – Vrije Universiteit) is associate professor in development economics. She is affiliated as senior economist with the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), and research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. Previously, she held visiting positions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London, and the World Bank Development Economics Research group in Washington, DC.
She has received numerous research grants, including a DFID-ESRC grant to study social norms and violence against women and girls in Pakistan, an NWO-Wotro grant to study family planning, hiv/aids and women’s empowerment in Mozambique, and an NWO-VENI grant to study the interaction between health insurance and microcredit in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, she is leading amongst others an interdiscplinary research programme on mobile technology and universal health coverage in Kenya.
She has extensive experience in designing and coordinating multi-disciplinary research programmes to provide rigorous and locally grounded policy advice to national and international organisations as well as governments (such as Oxfam Novib, PharmAccess Foundation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank).
Research
Behavioral, experimental and micro-econometric analyses of (i) access to health care and health insurance, (ii) global mental health, (iii) sexual and reproductive health (iv) intra-household decision-making, polygamy, and domestic violence.
Teaching
VU Minor in Health Care and Health Management (BSc): Global Health Economics
VU Economics (BSc): Thesis supervision
VU Economics (MSc): Research project; Policy seminar; Thesis supervision
Tinbergen Institute (MPhil): Development Economics
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Education/Academic qualification
Development Economics, PhD, Vrije Universiteit - Tinbergen Institute
Business Economics, Master, Maastricht University
Culture, Psychology and Psychiatry, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Medical Anthropology on Sexual and Reproductive Health / HIV , Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research
Keywords
- Global health economics
- Mental health
- Women's empowerment
- Fertility
- HIV/Aids
- Sub-Sarahan Africa
- Intra-household decision-making
- Health insurance
- Polygamy
- Child marriage
- Early Childhood Development
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- Namibia
- Tanzania
- India
- SRHR
- Domestic violence
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Research Output 2005 2019
Cooperation in polygynous households
Barr, A., Dekker, M., Janssens, W., Kebede, B. & Kramer, B., Apr 2019, In : American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 11, 2, p. 266-283 18 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Household
Willingness
The Power to Protect: Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use
Cassidy, R., Groot Bruinderink, M. L., Janssens, W. & Morsink, K., 2018, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, (CSAE Working Paper Series; no. WPS/2018-08).Research output: Working paper › Academic
Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance
Geng, X., Janssens, W., Kramer, B. & van der List, M., Nov 2018, In : World Development. 111, p. 196-210 15 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
crowding out
health insurance
insurance
health
health expenditure
Be Patient When Measuring Hyperbolic Discounting: Stationarity, Time Consistency and Time Invariance in a Field Experiment
Janssens, W., Kramer, B. & Swart, L., 1 May 2017, In : Journal of Development Economics. 126, -, p. 77-90 14 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
File
Liquid Milk: Cash Constraints and Day-to-Day Intertemporal Choice in Financial Diaries
Geng, X., Janssens, W. & Kramer, B. N., Jan 2017, International Food Policy Research Institute, (IFPRI Discussion Paper; no. 01602).Research output: Working paper › Professional
File
Activities 2010 2019
Health insurance, a friend in need? Impacts of formal insurance and crowding out of informal insurance
W. Janssens (Speaker)30 Jan 2019
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Social norms and child marriage in Pakistan – Baseline findings
W. Janssens (Speaker)4 Dec 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Professional
The Power to Protect: Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use
W. Janssens (Speaker)3 May 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Gendered barriers to formal health care utilization: A structural model of health care demand in Nigeria
W. Janssens (Speaker)28 Nov 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Gendered barriers to formal health care utilization: A structural model of health care demand in Nigeria
W. Janssens (Speaker)10 Dec 2018
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Prizes
Ability to pay? The role of savings and risk in demand for community-based health insurance in Nigeria and Kenya: a Financial and Health Diaries study
W. Janssens (Recipient), 2017
Prize › Academic
Nigeria
Community-based
Kenya
Savings
Health insurance
Enhancing Universal Health Coverage in Kenya through Digital Innovations
W. Janssens (Recipient), 7 Feb 2019
Prize › Academic
Universal Coverage
Organized Financing
Kenya
Health Insurance
Research Personnel
Research grant for Research Project: The relation between women’s empowerment, sexual and reproductive health and vulnerability to domestic violence: Evidence from a randomized family planning training programme in Mozambique, granted by ShareNet International
W. Janssens (Recipient), M. Groot Bruinderink (Recipient) & K. Morsink (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize › Academic
Mozambique
domestic violence
family planning
grant
training program
VENI grant from NWO (250.000 Euros for three years) for research on Tanzanian entrepreneurship and insurances
W. Janssens (Recipient), 2010
Prize › Academic
Women's empowerment, social norms and domestic violence
W. Janssens (Recipient), P. Collier (Recipient), M. Groot Bruinderink (Recipient) & K. Morsink (Recipient), 1 Dec 2016
Prize › Academic
Press / Media
Female condoms help women to convince partners to have safer sex: Study
3/10/18
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment