Agenda
Coming up
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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... -
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...
Past activities
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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... -
Andreas Kotsadam (Frisch Centre, Oslo): Jobs and intimate partner violence in Ethiopia - Most previous evidence on employment and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is based on correlational studies. While such correlations are illustrative... -
Florence Kondylis (World Bank): Learning from experience and learning from others - Demonstration activities are often used to diffuse new technologies in the field. Implicit in this choice is that social learning is the prevalent... -
An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: Long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s Kleoniki K (Kleoniki) Alexopoulou Giannakitsa MSc
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Daniel Slunge (U Göteborg): Market-based instruments in chemicals management, a good idea or not? - Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are... -
Incentives, Social Learning and Economic Development Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Uganda KM (Kelvin) Shikuku
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José Zofio (U Autonoma de Madrid and U Rotterdam): Introducing Economic Inefficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs - In this study we introduce the measurement of environmental inefficiency from an economic perspective that integrates, in addition to marketed good... -
Bjorn van Campenhout (KU Leuven, IFPRI): Designing for effectiveness and inclusivity in video-enable agricultural extension - In agricultural extension programs, seemingly small design attributes — the way the information is delivered, who delivers the information, or... -
Isabelle Bonjean (KU Leuven, Belgium): Who are the loss-averse farmers? - Farmers have to take decisions in a highly risky world. Their behavior under risk typically results from the combination of the level of their risk... -
Arnoud Boot (UvA, Dutch Central Bank): (More than) changing finance and financing change - Whether we like it or not, financiers are indispensable for a transition to a green economy. Yet the incentives of financial institutions and the role... -
Joost de Laat (U Utrecht): Cash for carbon - A cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) conservation program in Uganda that ran from 2011 to 2013... -
Rinchan Ali Mirza: Displacement and Development - The partition of British India in 1947 into India and Pakistan led to the largest
episode of mass displacement in recorded history. I use refugee... -
Governance of Small-scale Irrigation Schemes in Northern Ghana. The Role of User Groups Margaret MA (Margaret) Akuriba
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Wändi Bruine de Bruin: Age differences in decision-making competence - Population age is steadily increasing in countries around the world. Decisions about personal finances, retirement, and health are becoming... -
Saving Energy When Others Pay the Bill dr. AM (Anouk) Griffioen
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Martijn Huysmans: Exporting Protection - Starting with the 2009 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, the EU has achieved increased external protection for some of its Geographical... -
Christine Binzel: Economic Development, Trust, and Social Norms -
Agro-clusters for Rural Development in the Indonesian Province of West Java D (Dadan) Wardhana
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Maria Vrachioli: Impact evaluation of alternative irrigation technology in Crete - The interest in promoting food and water security through development projects has led to the need for tools that can evaluate the impact of these... -
Erik Ansink: Crowdfunding public goods, an experiment - We assess the success of crowdfunding public goods using a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our aim is to decrease coordination problems that may occur...