NBER profile: Pascaline Dupas.

Pascaline Dupas is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Children and Development Economics. She is also an assistant professor of Economics at Stanford University. Previously she held appointments at Dartmouth College and at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a development economist studying the determinants of and returns to human capital accumulation (health and education) and technology adoption among self-employed households in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dupas studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure and completed her Ph.D. in Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and Sciences Sociales in Paris in...