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Socio-Economist, with research interests in economics of gender, labour and household economics, fiscal and social policy.

Qualifications

PhD in Management and Applied Economics (2006) from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) – Solvay Business School. MSc degree in Management from Université Libre de Bruxelles - Solvay Business School.

Professional affiliations

Lecturer in Economics at the Open University since 2009.
Member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), the Applied Econometrics Association (AEA), as well as of the network MAGE (Labour Market and Gender in Europe). Former member of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE).

Course development and teaching

Chair of the presentation of the module Personal investment in an uncertain world (DB234) and member of the module teams for You and your money: personal finance in context (DB123) and Running the economy (DD209).

Research interests

Co-Investigator on the research project Gender and intra-household entitlements. A cross-national longitudinal analysis.

Previous research projects include Within-Household Inequalities and Public Policy (WHIPP) as part of the Gender Equality Network (GENet) funded by the ESRC (2006-2010); investigating parenthood and employment in Europe (project Pepsi, funded by the Belgian Federal government 2006-2008); fertility in Europe and the influence of employment conditions and Public Policies (project MOCHO, funded by the European Commission 2001-2004); long term care organisation in Belgium (2002-2003); Gender inequality in Academia (2001-2003).

Recent publications

A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

De Henau, Jérôme and Susan Himmelweit (2013, forthcoming). "Unpacking intrahousehold gender differences in partners' subjective benefits from household income", Journal of Marriage and Family, Special Issue on "Researching within-household distribution", forthcoming

De Henau, Jérôme and Susan Himmelweit (2013, forthcoming). "Comparing welfare regimes by their effects on intra-household inequalities", proceedings of the 9th annual ESPAnet Conference "Sustainability and transformation in European Social Policy". New York: Peter Lang.

Bennett, Fran, Jérôme De Henau, Susan Himmelweit and Sirin Sung (2012). "Financial autonomy and togetherness within couples", in Scott, J. S. Dex and A. C. Plagnol (eds.). Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction. New York: Edward Elgar

De Henau, Jérôme, Susan Himmelweit and Cristina Santos (2010). "Gender equality and taxation. A UK case study", in Grown, C. And I. Valodia (Eds.) Taxation and gender equity. A comparative analysis of direct and indirect taxes in developing and developed countries, New York: Routledge, pp 261-98

Bennett, Fran, Jérôme De Henau and Sirin Sung (2010), "Within household inequalities across classes? Money management and income", in Scott, J., R. Crompton and C. Lyonette (eds), Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century:  New barriers and continuing constraints, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

De Henau, Jérôme, Danièle Meulders and Síle O'Dorchai (2010). "Maybe Baby: Comparing Mothers' Employment and Child Policies in the EU-15", Feminist Economics, Vol. 16(1), pp 43-77.

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Other interests

Involved in the Executive Board of the ULB and other decision-making boards (Faculty of Social Sciences, Solvay Business School), website management, organisation of workshops and conferences

Last updated: 30 November 2012