Christine Valente is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol and an IZA Research Fellow. Her research mainly focuses on household decisions regarding human capital in developing countries, and sheds light on what affects these decisions and on how they can be altered through policy. Christine received an undergraduate degree and research Master’s degree from Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sheffield. She has published in, among others: the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.