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Joseph Flavian Gomes

Université Catholique de Louvain
joseph.gomes@uclouvain.be

Joseph Flavian Gomes is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Economics School of Louvain and the Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES) at UCLouvain; and a CEPR Research Affiliate (International Trade and Regional Economics programme, Development Economics programme). Prior to this he was Assistant Professor at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), University of Navarra. His primary fields of interest are development economics and political economy. His current research focuses on the political economy of ethnic diversity, and the effects of gender prejudice on gender inequality in health outcomes. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Carlos III of Madrid and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Essex prior to joining Navarra.

Posts by Joseph Flavian Gomes

How women in politics impact maternal mortality

In the twelfth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Bhalotra et al. show that mortality during and after childbirth remains high, even where the knowledge and ...

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Maternal mortality and gender prejudice

While maternal mortality has fallen sharply in the last decade, it remains unnecessarily high at about 800 deaths a day worldwide. Moreover, there is enormous variation in levels and rates of decline ...

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