Marleen Dekker
Marleen Dekker is a development economist and human geographer. Her PhD research was on the impact of land reform on participation in social networks and risk-coping strategies in Zimbabwe and her post-doc research on Ethiopia focused on the role of social networks in coping with illness and bargaining processes within the household and the wider community.
Her current work builds on these previous research projects and explores the role of social networks in accessing markets and (local) socio-economic development, with a strong focus on access to formal and informal insurance networks, including community-based health insurance. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, combining methods and insights from economics, human geography and sociology (notably social network analysis).
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Email adress: mdekker@ascleiden.nl
Link to publications by Marleen Dekker in the ASC catalogue (link opens in a new window)
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Email adress: mdekker@ascleiden.nl
Phone number: +31 71 527 6602
ASC room number: 3.A01
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Community based health insurance and the well-being of children and households in Plan communities in Togo
Community-based health insurance in Ethiopia
Coping with economic crisis in Zimbabwe
Roads to prosperity and their social zones of transit: comparing cases in Southern and West Africa through time
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'It is time to start my own farm': the unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe (2012)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms? (2012)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages (2012)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Coping with Zimbabwe's economic crisis: small-scale farmers and livelihoods under stress (2011)
Type of Publication: Other
Contextualizing Zimbabwe's land reform: long term observations from the first generation (2011)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Creating inclusive communities: the results of resettlement in Zimbabwe (2011)
Type of Publication: Other
Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms? (2010)
Type of Publication: Book
The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of a quasi-experiment (2010)
Type of Publication: Book
Can't buy me health: financial constraints and health seeking behaviour among rural household members in Central Togo (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Health insurance and other risk-coping strategies in Uganda: the case of Microcare Insurance Ltd (2010)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Individual or shared responsibility: who finances treatment of illnesses in households in rural Ethiopia? (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa (2010)
Type of Publication: Book
Zuid-Afrika reisgids (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
Can health insurance be the magic bullet? The case of Microcare ltd. in Uganda (2009)
Type of Publication: Other
Intra-household differences in coping with illness in rural Ethiopia (2008)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data : an asset based wealth index for rural Ethiopia (2006)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data : an asset based wealth index for rural Ethiopia (2006)
Type of Publication: Book
Trends in non-consumption dimensions of welfare for Tanzania, 1992-2000 (2006)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Micro-macro verbanden in Tanzania : waar zit de kink in de kabel? (2005)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Risk, resettlement and relations : social security in rural Zimbabwe (2004)
Type of Publication: Book
Sustainability and Resourcefulness : Support Networks During Periods of Stress (2004)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Bride wealth and household security in rural Zimbabwe (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
NGO's and environmental dilemmas in Zimbabwe (1997)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
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Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?
BREAD Working Paper No. 267 2010
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of a quasi-experiment
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 90, 2010
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
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Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 87, 2009
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
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Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 80, 2008
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
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Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms
Oxford: Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, CSAE Working Paper Series 2008-14 2008
A. Barr; M. Dekker; M. Fafchamps
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Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data : an asset based wealth index for rural Ethiopia
Addis Abeba: Ethiopian Economics Association, Proceedings 3rd International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy 2006
M. Dekker
Risk, resettlement and relations : social security in rural Zimbabwe
[Amsterdam: Thela Thesis], Tinbergen Institute research series ; no. 331 2004
M. Dekker
''It is time to start my own farm': the unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe'
In: J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Pesa: 'Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies', Leiden: Brill, 2012.
'Introduction: economic ethnographies of the marketization of health and healing in Africa'
In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.
'Individual or shared responsibility: who finances treatment of illnesses in households in rural Ethiopia?'
In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.
'Can't buy me health: financial constraints and health seeking behaviour among rural household members in Central Togo'
In: M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk: 'Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2010.
'Intra-household differences in coping with illness in rural Ethiopia'
In: M.M.E.M. Rutten; A.H.M. Leliveld; D.W.J. Foeken: 'Inside Poverty and Development in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2008.
'NGO's and environmental dilemmas in Zimbabwe'
In: Hvan Breemer; B. Venema: 'Towards negotiated comanagement of natural resources in Africa', Münster: LIT Verlag, 1999.
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Markets of well-being: navigating health and healing in Africa
M. Dekker; R.A. van Dijk (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 9, 2010.
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'Bridging the gender divide: an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages'
in: World development, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 2063-2077, 2012.
'Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?'
in: Economic development and cultural change, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 677-706, 2012.
'Contextualizing Zimbabwe's land reform: long term observations from the first generation'
in: The journal of peasant studies, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 995 - 1019, 2011.
'Health insurance and other risk-coping strategies in Uganda: the case of Microcare Insurance Ltd'
in: World development, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 369 - 378, 2010.
'Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data : an asset based wealth index for rural Ethiopia'
in: Ethiopian Journal of Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 35 - 54, 2006.
'Micro-macro verbanden in Tanzania : waar zit de kink in de kabel?'
in: Kwartaalschrift Economie, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 244 - 267, 2005.
'Sustainability and Resourcefulness : Support Networks During Periods of Stress'
in: World development, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1735 - 1751, 2004.
'Bride wealth and household security in rural Zimbabwe'
in: Journal of African economies, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 114 - 145, 2002.
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Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum, ASC working paper 93, 2011.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC info sheet 10, 2011.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC info sheet 7, 2009.