Last updated: 5^th January 2010

Educational Background

I graduated with a Master in International Economics from Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration in August 2005, completing the track Human Resources, Labour Markets and Society. During this study I have done an Erasmus exchange semester at the Warsaw School of Economics. The topic of my final thesis has been “Eradicating poverty in India with the Millennium Development Goals: Primary education for all or only for some Guajarati?” This thesis was partly based on an AIESEC development internship that I have done with the NGO Sneh Prayas in Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Since September 2006 I am a research fellow in the PhD programme on European Social Protection Policy (ESPP) at the Maastricht University, Graduate School of Governance. In the first year I have attended an extensive course programme on various social protection research aspects, given to us by professors from various European universities of the school's international network. Later I have done research visits to the Institute for Social & Economic Research at Essex University/UK and the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Milan/Italy. At the end of the year 2009 I will be visiting AKF, a Danish governmental research centre, in Copenhagen.

 
Research Interest

I am interested in labour and education economic as well as social policy research topics. Within my PhD research I am looking into the evaluation of various Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) arrangements that shall stimulate child development at the important period of early childhood. I look at both the duration of the experienced stimuli as well as their quality. In my studies of short and long-term development outcomes I am looking into how those outcomes are distributed across children from different family backgrounds. Outcomes are measured within cognitive, non-cognitive and socio-emotional development domains. In cooperation with the Sjoans Research Centre for Opportunities in Education based at Maastricht University, I am involved in data collection which entirely covers three consecutive cohorts of children at all primary schools in the Southern region of the Dutch province of Limburg. With my research I want to facilitate the identification of best strategies that policymakers can choose to provide equal educational opportunities through ECCE and family policies.

Publications and Work in progress

• Bauchmüller, R. (2010). Sorge um die Kleinsten ist Vorsorge für die Grossen: Wie stärkt man die Chancen der Schwachen? In Kürze erscheinend in C. Kehrli (Ed.), Sozialalmanach 2010. Luzern: Caritas Schweiz.

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• Jungbluth, P. & Bauchmüller, R.  (2009). Stadsrapport Maastricht - Voor- en Vroegschoolse Educatie 2008/2009. (transl.: Report on municipality of Maastricht: Early childhood and Pre-school Education), Sjoans Research Centre on Opportunities in Education, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

• Nimeh, Z., & Bauchmüller, R. (2009). Out of School: A look at deprived children in Jordan. Paper presented at the PEGNet Conference 2009, 3-4 September: Policies for Reducing Inequality in the Developing World, The Hague.

• Bauchmüller, R. (2009b). Effects of Dutch Pre-school Playgroup attendance. Maastricht University, Graduate School of Governance, work in progress.

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• Bauchmüller, R. (2009a). Notitie: Extra toeslag voor gewichtenleerlingen op basisscholen in de impulsgebieden van Zuid Limburg (maatregel Dijksma). Maastricht University, Graduate School of Governance & Sjoans Research Centre on Opportunities in Education (Update 24 februari 2009).

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  Bauchmüller, R., & Jungbluth, P. (2008). Technical Report of data collection for evaluation of ECE programme ‘Speelplezier’ in Maastricht. Maastricht: Maastricht University, Sjoans Research Centre on Opportunities in Education.
   

• Bauchmüller, R. (2008). Evaluating causal effects of Early Childhood Care and Education Investments: A discussion of the researcher’s toolkit, MGSoG/2008/WP006.
  
  Bauchmüller, R., & Tumwesigye, D. L. (2008). Report on Pilot project Design: GST funded Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Dangme West District, Ghana. Geneva: Global Social Trust – A project of international solidarity between Luxembourg and Ghana: project RAF/0/56/SID (forthcoming).
  
  Bauchmüller, R. (2005). Eradicating poverty in India with the Millennium Development Goals – Primary education for all or only for some Gujaratis? (Master thesis), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  
  Bauchmüller, R. (2004). Not knowing the needs of the young is an injustice: Report on the results of the field survey on educational needs in Ahmedabad. India: Sneh Prayas.