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Quentin Wodon

Quentin Wodon

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Economics and Finance

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53
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16131
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1169
National Ranking
707

Overview

Quentin Wodon is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and specializes in social sciences with a strong emphasis on education. The majority of their research focuses on education, sociology and political science, safety research, political science and international relations, and demography.

Their work addresses key topics such as religious education and schools, poverty, education, and child welfare, religion, society, and development, Catholicism and religious studies, global educational reforms and inequalities, American constitutional law and politics, and school choice and performance.

Recent research publications by Quentin Wodon include:

  • How well do Catholic and other faith-based schools serve the poor? A study with special reference to Africa: part II: learning (2020), published in International Studies in Catholic Education
  • COVID-19 Crisis, Impacts on Catholic Schools, and Potential Responses | Part II: Developing Countries with Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (2020), published in Journal of Catholic Education
  • COVID-19 Crisis, Impacts on Catholic Schools, and Potential Responses | Part 1: Developed Countries with Focus on the United States (2020), published in Journal of Catholic Education
  • Measuring Education Pluralism Globally (2021), published in The Review of Faith & International Affairs
  • Decline in Student Enrollment, Parental Willingness to Consider Catholic Schools, and Sources of Comparative Advantage in the United States (2022), published in Journal of Global Catholicism

Quentin Wodon frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Catholic Education
  • The Review of Faith & International Affairs
  • International Studies in Catholic Education
  • Journal of Global Catholicism
  • Religions

They have also authored books published by the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, including "How Large Is the Gender Dividend? Measuring Selected Impacts and Costs of Gender Inequality" (2020) and "Ending Violence in Schools" (2021). A more recent publication is "Protecting Women and Girls from Cyber Harassment: A Global Assessment of Existing Laws" (2023), published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks.

Quentin Wodon collaborates regularly with a core group of co-authors, including Adenike Opeoluwa Onagoruwa, Chata Malé, Nelly Elmallakh, Clarence Tsimpo, and Philippe Richard.

Best Publications

  • Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course

    Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Susan P Walker;Lia C H Fernald;Christopher T Andersen

  • Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy

    Martin Ravallion;Quentin Wodon

  • Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    C. Mark Blackden;Quentin Wodon

  • Poverty Measurement and Analysis

    Luc Christiaensen;Christopher Scott;Quentin Wodon

  • Water, Electricity, and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?

    Kristin Komives;Vivien Foster;Jonathan Halpern;Quentin Wodon

  • Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: A Review of the Literature

    Jennifer Parsons;Jeffrey Edmeades;Aslihan Kes;Suzanne Petroni

  • Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin America's Experience

    Antonio Estache;Vivien Foster;Quentin Wodon

  • The changing wealth of nations 2018 : building a sustainable future

    Glenn-Marie Lange;Quentin Wodon;Kevin Carey

  • Rising food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: poverty impact and policy responses

    Quentin Wodon;Hassan Zaman

  • Achieving child-health-related Millennium Development Goals: The role of infrastructure

    Marianne Fay;Daniel Leipziger;Quentin Wodon;Tito Yepes

  • Working Long Hours and Having No Choice: Time Poverty in Guinea

    Elena Bardasi;Quentin Wodon

  • The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018

    Glenn-Marie Lange;Quentin Wodon;Kevin Carey

  • Poor areas, or only poor people?

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  • Economic impacts of child marriage : global synthesis report

    Quentin T. Wodon;Chata Male;Kolobadia Ada Nayihouba;Adenike Opeoluwa Onagoruwa

  • Inequality in CO2 Emissions Between Poor and Rich Countries

    Mark T. Heil;Quentin T. Wodon

  • Understanding the roles of faith-based health-care providers in Africa: review of the evidence with a focus on magnitude, reach, cost, and satisfaction

    Jill Olivier;Clarence Tsimpo;Regina Gemignani;Mari Shojo

  • Does Child Labor Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioral Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy

    Martin Ravallion;Quentin T. Wodon

  • Measuring Time Poverty and Analyzing Its Determinants: Concepts and Application to Guinea

    Elena Bardasi;Quentin Wodon

  • Poverty and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Quentin Wodon;Robert L. Ayres

  • Hurricane Mitch and the livelihoods of the rural poor in Honduras

    Saul Sutkover Morris;Oscar Neidecker-Gonzales;Calogero Carletto;Marcial Munguía

  • Achieving the Millennium Development Goals : The Role of Infrastructure

    Marianne Fay;Danny Leipziger;Quentin Wodon;Tito Yepes

  • Higher Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: Poverty Impact and Policy Responses

    Quentin T. Wodon;Hassan Zaman

Frequent Co-Authors

Shlomo Yitzhaki
Shlomo Yitzhaki Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vivien Foster
Vivien Foster Imperial College London
Antonio Estache
Antonio Estache Université Libre de Bruxelles
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Michael W. Morris
Michael W. Morris Columbia University
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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