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Catherine Guirkinger is a Researcher at the University of Namur, affiliated with the Centre of Research in the Economics of Development and the Plateforme methodologique pour les sciences humaines et sociales. Her work focuses on development finance, gender inequality, household decision-making, and risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia.
- Education: Doctor of Economics, University of California Davis (2006)
Research interests include:
- Long-term impacts of colonial policies on education and population well-being in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Gender dynamics in polygamous households and mobile money adoption
- Role of norms in economic behavior and intergenerational identity transmission
- Food security and storage imperfections in the Philippines
- Economic resilience under adverse policies in Kyrgyzstan
Recent publications highlight trends in:
- 2025: Colonial education legacy in DR Congo, artisanal mining's impact on primary education
- 2024: Polygamy and cooperation in Benin, female agency in Philippines
- 2023-2020: Institutional persistence, food security, remarriage patterns in Burkina Faso
She supervises projects on topics like:
- Intra-household decision-making and mobile money
- Intergenerational identity transmission in Africa
- Development economics and normative frameworks
- Identities, norms, and economic behavior
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