Agenda
Coming up
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Hilde Bras (RHI): Women’s position, sibling inequalities, and child nutritional status in Ethiopia - Women’s position is often seen as key to improved child nutrition. Empowered women may improve children’s nutritional status through... -
Gerrit Antonides (UEC): Effects of asymmetric expectation disconfirmation and evaluability of mobile phone attributes on consumer satisfaction - We study the determinants of consumer satisfaction with mobile phones on the basis of perceived product attribute performance and disconfirmation of... -
Salvatore di Falco (Université de Genève): Poverty and Self Esteem - Individual self-esteem levels were elicited in three rounds of panel data in the Nile Basin region of Ethiopia to determine whether droughts during... -
Assessing Economics and Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS - Irreversible effects do play an important role in private as well as public decision making. The basis for the Precautionary Principle, an important... -
XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019
Past activities
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Robert Lensink (DEC): Uptake and impact of interlinked Index-based Insurance with credit and agricultural Input - This paper examines the results of randomized experiments in Ethiopia that assess the relevance of bundling index-based insurance (IBI) with credit... -
Lena Kuhn (IAMO): Drought risk management in Central Asia - A rising incidence of heat extremes, droughts and floods are increasing the vulnerability of rural producers and causes considerable challenges to... -
Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin): Information delivery, nutrition and HIV treatment - Nutrition is a crucial component for individuals living with HIV and AIDS. This paper investigates whether the medium of delivery of nutrition... -
Lars Hein (Environmental System Analysis, WUR): The System of Environmental Economic Accounting - The SEEA Central framework has been broadly used to account for stocks and uses of non-renewable (and some renewable) resources. In the Netherlands,... -
Rolf Groeneveld (ENR): Welfare economics and wicked problems in wet environments - Marine and coastal governance has been characterised as a ‘wicked’ problem: unlike ‘engineering’ problems, wicked problems... -
Jasper Meya (University of Oldenburg): Inter- and intragenerational distribution and the valuation of natural capital - This paper studies how the intra- and intergenerational distribution of income affects the economic valuation of non-use environmental public goods... -
Belinda Archibong (Barnard College): 'An ill wind that blows no girl any good'. The Impacts of climate-induced disease on gender inequality - Despite notable investments in education, persistent gender gaps in educational attainment remain in developing countries. One potential explanation... -
Shocks, Insurance and Welfare Evidence from Field Experiments in Ethiopia -
Bram van Besouw (UU): Death at a Distance? Warfare and civilian mortality in theseventeenth-century Low Countries - Using newly collected data from burial records and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we test the intuitive links between warfare... -
Jan Gerrit Deelen (OECD): The OECD, at the crossroads between science and politics - Throughout its history, the OECD has assisted countries in fostering good governance and reforming and improving their economic policies to generate... -
Michail Moatsos (UU): The confidence level of the first millennium development goal - The dollar-a-day method, applied in monitoring the UN's development goals against poverty, provides no confidence interval for the official figures of... -
Lubos Smutka and Karel Malec (Czech University of Life Sciences): Volatility and liquidity on commodity markets - In todays markets, commodities are frequently characterized by an increasing trend in the long term. There were significant fluctuations of commodity... -
Otto Raspe (PBL): The geography of economic growth and the need for new policies - What drives regional economic growth? And what policies work in the context of regional and urban development? Otto will discuss the factors that are... -
Belle Derks (UU): How the stereotype of ’the successful economist’ perpetuates the underrepresentation of women in economics - Although it is well-known that women are vastly underrepresented in natural sciences and technology, in the economics and business departments at... -
Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University): Family planning and climate change - The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas three-fourths are due to population... -
Dusan Drabik (WUR): A conceptual and empirical framework to analyze the economics of food loss and waste and policy interventions - Food loss and waste (FLW) impose significant global economic, social, and natural resource costs. Shifting diets and climate change may increase these... -
Jana Vyrastekova (Radboud University): Female entrepreneurship and gender norms - What is the link between female entrepreneurship and gender norms in developing countries? We implement an incentivized experiment in India in order... -
Machiel Mulder (RUG): Electrification of heating and transport - The residential and road transport sectors are both major contributors to the emissions of greenhouse gases. In both sectors, electrification may help... -
Achim Hagen (Humboldt University Berlin): Boon or bane? Trade sanctions and the stability of international environmental agreements - In spite of scientific agreement on the negative effects of anthropogenic climate change, efforts to find cooperative solutions on the international... -
Pauline Rossi (UvA): Private health investments under competing risks - This study exploits the introduction of high subsidies for anti-malaria products in Senegal in 2009 to investigate if malaria prevents parents to...