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Research output per year
Personal profile
Personal information
Wendy Janssens is Professor in Development Economics. She is Academic Board member of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), in the HERA management team (Health Economics Research Amsterdam), and research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. She is also research advisor for PharmAccess Foundation. Previously, she held visiting positions at the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London, and the World Bank Development Economics Research group in Washington, DC.
Currently, she is coordinating the Global Mental Health theme group at AIGHD, and leading an interdisciplinary research programme on mobile technology and universal health coverage for mothers and children in Kenya, including the evaluation of maternal mental health interventions.
She has received numerous research grants, including a BRAC grant to examine digital finance, women's empowerment and mental well-being in Kenya; a DFID-ESRC grant to study social norms and child marriage in Pakistan; an NWO-Wotro grant to study family planning, HIV/AIDS and empowerment in Mozambique; and an NWO-VENI grant to study the interaction between health insurance and microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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, Pathfinder International, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank).
Research
Impact evaluations and 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) gender, intra-household decision-making, polygamy, and violence against women and girls.
Teaching
- BSc: Coordination of the VU Minor in Economics
- BSc: Health Economics (Minor Health Care and Health Management)
- MSc: Research project; Thesis supervision (MSc Economics and MSc Public Policy)
- Tinbergen MPhil: Development Economics; Thesis supervision
Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Academic qualification
Development Economics, PhD, Social Capital and Cooperation: An Impact Evaluation of a Women’s Empowerment Programme in Rural India, Vrije Universiteit - Tinbergen Institute
Award Date: 23 May 2007
Business Economics, Master, MA in Business Economics, Maastricht University
Award Date: 30 Jun 1998
Culture, Psychology and Psychiatry, Participant in the anthropology graduate school winter course, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Medical Anthropology on Sexual and Reproductive Health / HIV , Participant in the AISSR graduate school winter course , Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research
User created Keywords
- Global health economics
- Mental health
- Gender
- Fertility
- HIV/Aids
- Sub-Sarahan Africa
- Intra-household bargaining
- Health insurance
- Polygamy
- Child marriage
- Early Childhood Development
- SRHR
- Domestic violence
- Poverty reduction
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Digital health systems strengthening in Africa for rapid response to COVID-19
de Wit, T. F. R., Janssens, W., Antwi, M., Milimo, E., Mutegi, N., Marwa, H., Ndili, N., Owino, W., Waiyaiya, E., Garcia Rojas, D., Dolfing, M., de Graaff, A. E., Swanepoel, R., van der Graaf, M. H., Mulder, D., De Sanctis, T., Kratule, S., Koyuncu, C., Rogo, K., Gómez-Pérez, G. P., & 1 others, 28 Nov 2022, In: Frontiers in Health Services. 2, p. 1-21 21 p., 987828.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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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 / Preprint › Working paper › Professional
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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
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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
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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 AccessFile295 Downloads (Pure)
Courses
Projects
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Innovative Partnership for Universal Sustainable Health
Aksünger, N., Pradhan, M. & Janssens, W.
Project: Research
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Maternal Depression in Africa
Wendy Janssens (Speaker)
21 Nov 2023Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
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Annual AIGHD/Joep Lange Chair Symposium, Amsterdam 31 October
Wendy Janssens (Organiser)
23 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar › Academic
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13th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH2023) themed “Climate change and planetary health”, Utrecht, 19-23 November 2023
Wendy Janssens (Organiser)
19 Nov 2023 → 23 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
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The impact of digital health insurance on low-income women in Kenya
Wendy Janssens (Invited speaker)
15 Nov 2022Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
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Annual Joep Lange Chair and Fellows Symposium
Wendy Janssens (Member of programme committee)
3 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar › Academic
Prizes
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Editors’s Paper of the Year Award 2023
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2023
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Research grant extension on “Mobile Technologies and Universal Health Coverage in Kenya” from the i-PUSH program (Nationale Postcode Loterij) (€ 105,000)
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2021
Prize / Grant: Grant › Academic
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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
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), Groot Bruinderink, M. (Recipient) & Morsink, K. (Recipient), 1 Jan 2015
Prize / Grant: Grant › Academic
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Research grant from HIF - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (€ 40,000) on “Digital financing and the preparedness of health SMEs for COVID-19”
Janssens, Wendy (Recipient), 2020
Prize / Grant: Grant › Societal
Press/Media
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Using Weekly Financial and Health Diaries to Track Health and Income Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Government Response Measures in Rural Kenya
Amanuel Abajobir, Hermann Donfouet, Estelle Sidze, Richard de Groot, Menno Pradhan & Wendy Janssens
11/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Radio-interview on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Africa
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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De indirecte gevolgen van corona voor landen in Afrika
24/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Giving and taking between husband, wives, and co-wives
29/04/19 → 3/05/19
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Female condoms help women to convince partners to have safer sex: Study
3/10/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Datasets
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Financial and Health Diaries 2012-2013: A year-long weekly panel of farming households in Nigeria and Kenya
Janssens, W. (Creator), Kramer, B. (Creator), van der List, M. (Contributor) & Pap, D. (Data Manager), DataverseNL, 18 Nov 2019
DOI: doi:10.34894/AXFRPB
Dataset
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Health insurance in Kenya: A financial and health diaries dataset 2019-2021
Janssens, W. (Creator) & Pradhan, M. (Creator), DataverseNL, 19 Dec 2023
DOI: 10.34894/AKWPIA, https://doi.org/10.34894/AKWPIA
Dataset
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Replication Data for: COVID-19 and mental health: A prospective cohort study in eight Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Aksünger, N. (Creator) & Janssens, W. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 2022
DOI: 10.34894/ryerf6, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/RYERF6
Dataset
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Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households
Kramer, B. (Contributor), Janssens, W. (Contributor), Kebede, B. (Contributor), Barr, A. (Contributor) & Dekker, M. (Contributor), ICPSR, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.3886/e113730, https://doi.org/10.3886%2Fe113730
Dataset
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Replication data for: Cooperation in Polygynous Households
Barr, A. (Contributor), Janssens, W. (Contributor), Kebede, B. (Contributor), Dekker, M. (Contributor) & Kramer, B. (Contributor), ICPSR, 1 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.3886/e113730v1, https://doi.org/10.3886%2Fe113730v1
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