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Dominique van de Walle is affiliated with the Center for Global Development in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on themes within social sciences, with particular attention to gender studies, safety research, sociology and political science, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics that intersect gender, labor, family dynamics, poverty, education, child welfare, and health outcomes. Specific areas of interest include:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Dominique van de Walle has authored several recent papers published in notable academic venues. Key publications include:

  • "Headship and Poverty in Africa," 2020, The World Bank Economic Review
  • "Marital status and women's nutrition in Africa," 2022, World Development
  • "Child health and the housing environment," 2023, World Development
  • "Introduction to the special issue in honor of Martin Ravallion: Inequality, vulnerability and the middle-income trap," 2025, China Economic Review

Co-authors who have frequently collaborated with van de Walle include:

  • Caitlin Brown
  • Marie Albertine Djuikom
  • Martin Ravallion
  • Shaohua Chen

The primary venues for their research outputs are:

  • World Development
  • The World Bank Economic Review
  • China Economic Review

Best Publications

  • QUANTIFYING ABSOLUTE POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

    Martin Ravallion;Gaurav Datt;Dominique van de Walle

  • World development report 1990 : poverty

    Helena Ribe;Ehtisham Ahmad;Jacques van der Gaag;Robert L. Ayres

  • Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

    Puja Dutta;Rinku Murgai;Martin Ravallion.;Dominique van de Walle

  • Sources of Ethnic Inequality in Vietnam

    Dominique van de Walle;Dileni Gunewardena

  • Public spending and the poor : theory and evidence

    Kimberly Nead;Dominique Van De Walle

  • Choosing Rural Road Investments to Help Reduce Poverty

    Dominique van de Walle

  • Does India's employment guarantee scheme guarantee employment ?

    Puja Dutta;Rinku Murgai;Martin Ravallion;Dominique van de Walle

  • Access to water, women's work and child outcomes

    Gayatri Koolwal;Dominique van de Walle

  • Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam

    Ren Mu;Dominique van de Walle

  • Assessing the welfare impacts of public spending

    Dominique van de Walle

  • Is the emerging nonfarm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam

    Dominique Van der Walle;Dorothyjean Cratty

  • A poor means test? Econometric targeting in Africa

    Caitlin Susan Brown;Caitlin Susan Brown;Martin Ravallion;Dominique Van De Walle

  • Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

    Martin Ravallion;Dominique van de Walle

  • Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China

    Ren Mu;Dominique van de Walle

  • Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam

    Paul Glewwe;Nisha Agrawal;David Dollar;John Luke Gallup

  • Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam’s Agrarian Transition?

    Martin Ravallion;Dominique van de Walle

  • Long-term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India

    Dominique van de Walle;Martin Ravallion;Vibhuti Mendiratta;Gayatri Koolwal

  • Testing a social safety net

    Martin Ravallion;Dominique van de Walle;Madhur Gautam

  • Rural Roads and Poor Area Development in Vietnam

    Ren Mu;Dominique van de Walle

  • The impact on poverty of food pricing reforms: A welfare analysis for Indonesia

    Martin Ravallion;Dominique van de Walle

  • Fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid: micro-evidence for Vietnam

    Dominique van de Walle;Ren Mu

  • Public Spending and the Poor

    Paul W. Grimes;Dominique van de Walle;Kimberly Nead

  • The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2)

    Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Heather M. Leslie;Austen Mack-Crane;Sriniketh Suryasesha Nagavarapu

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Paul Glewwe
Paul Glewwe University of Minnesota
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank
Gary S. Fields
Gary S. Fields Cornell University
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Anke Hoeffler
Anke Hoeffler University of Konstanz
Xinshen Diao
Xinshen Diao International Food Policy Research Institute
Phong Q. Nguyen
Phong Q. Nguyen French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Bob Baulch
Bob Baulch RMIT University

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