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Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue

Associate Professor of Development Sociology

318 Warren Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7801
Email: pme7@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 255-3189

Education

Ph.D. 1997 Pennsylvania State University (Demography and Rural Sociology)
M.S. 1988 Pennsylvania State University (Rural Sociology)
B.S. 1985 National Advanced School of Agricultural Sciences [UCD-Cameroon] (Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

Areas of Interest

»population and development in advanced industrial societies
»population policy
»community sociology
»applied sociology

Research

» 1997-99  Directed a national survey of 3,500 Cameroonian households to collect retrospective family histories + 64 schools to study the determinants of school performance + panel study of 400 high school seniors to study their career and demographic paths.

»1998 Trained 21 student-interviewers from the University of Dschang in the use of life history calendars and questionnaires.

»1996 Directed a survey of 812 households and their 3,082 children in a study of demographic responses to economic crisis in Cameroon.

Selected Publications

2000. Are There Crisis-led Fertility Declines? Evidence from Central Cameroon; with C.S. Stokes and G. Cornwell Population Policy and Policy Review).

1999. What do The Associations Between Education and Fertility Mean? Pp. 287-305 in C. Bledsoe, J.B. Casteline, J.J Kuhn, and J. Haaga, eds. Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World. Washington DC, National Academy Press.

1997. Poverty and Rapid Population Growth: The Links Between High Fertility, Schooling and Poverty at the Household level. Monograph prepared for the African Development Bank.

1997. From Awareness to Adoption: The Effects of AIDS Campaigns on Condom Use in Tanzania. Working paper, Population Services International; with A. Calves and D. Meekers.

1994. Crise et Ajustement au Cameroun. Vers Une Rupture des Solidarites Villes-Campagnes? pp. 221-35 in G. Courade (ed.) Le Village Camerounais a l’Heure de la Crise. Paris: Khartala.

1994. Why Trade Quantity for Child Quality?: A "Family-Mobility Thesis". The PennState Population Research Institute Working Series, no. 94-15.