Projects
Addressing gaps in hypertension care and control in Medellin, Colombia: formative research, multi component quasi-experimental intervention Institute of Tropical Medicine
The interplay among household decision-making, gender relations and climate change adaptation policies. Evidence from a quasi-experimental impact study in the Morogoro region, Tanzania. University of Antwerp
Using semi-automated feedback and assessment for mathematical proficiency: a quasi-experimental study on student learning effectiveness, reliability and time savings. University of Antwerp
Interval methods for the identification and quantification of inhomogeneous uncertainty in Finite Element models KU Leuven
Numerical methods, such as the finite element method, have become an indispensable tool in the toolbox of a modern design engineer. Since these methods allow for predicting the mechanical, thermal or aerodynamic behaviour of a structural component, long before a first prototype has been produced, an immense reduction of lead-time is possible. However, it is impossible to determine all numerical model parameters deterministically, as the true ...
An Economical Perspective on Early school Leaving in Vocational Education and Training. KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation employs quasi-experimental empirical methods on administrative population data to investigate the causal relationship between high school dropout and its selected predictors, labour market consequences, and policies. Within this broad research agenda, contributions are made in four specific research topics. I first use coarsened exact matching and treatment effect bounds and find that children who were raised in a ...
Rebuilding Evidence on Drug consumption Rooms (Rev-DRoom) Ghent University
In the more than 35 years of international Drug Consumption Room (DCR) existence, much evidence has been accumulated about their effects. In particular, four domains were consistently explored: (I) public health indicators related to the population of People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) (e.g. mortality and morbidity), (II) the characteristics of the target group population of DCR users and their consumption behaviour and profiles, (III) environmental ...
How is social inequality reproduced by grade retention? Examining implicit bias among teachers with regard to the decision whether to retain a student or not. Ghent University
Grade retention has been criticized because it reproduces existing social inequalities. Students with an ethnic minority status and/or an underprivileged socioeconomic background have a higher chance of being retained in comparison to their counterparts with similar school achievements. Grade retention can be problematic for the future academic career, as retainees have three to seven times less chance to obtain a degree in secondary ...
Addressing alcohol use in general practice - a community-oriented approach KU Leuven
Background
Even though often socially accepted, alcohol is one of the leading risk factors for poor health and death in the world. Therefore, the world health organization (WHO) promotes the integration of alcohol-related early identification and brief intervention (EIBI) in general practice as one of the most cost-effective strategies to address this burden. However, implementation of EIBI in general practice remains low. ...