Projects
ACTION: Advance care planning – een innovative palliative care intervention to improve quality of life in oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DIADIC: Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer and their Informal Caregivers (DIAdIC): An international randomized controlled trial (OZR EU Bonus) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Depression project Janssen-Cilag. University of Antwerp
Personalized decision support models KU Leuven
Decision support systems are essential for managing an organization's operational and strategic processes. Although many of these systems model individual human beings, they do not take into account those individuals' unique characteristics. As a result, solutions generated are often infeasible for reasons such as ignoring personal habits. This dissertation explores two real-world cases in which accommodating such personalization is ...
Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into four chapters, each built around a different research paper that falls under the broad field of `development economics'. The analysis in all chapters is mostly empirical, relying on primary data collected in recent years from East Africa. Of course, theory plays a key role in directing the analysis. Chapters 1 and 2 study different aspects of female empowerment and household decisions in Tanzania. Chapters 3 ...