Development Economics Group
The mission of the Development Economics Group (DEC) is to contribute to an improved understanding of the processes of sustainable development, institutions, conflict and poverty alleviation. To this end, DEC selects teaching material and focuses on research that can shed light on the dynamics of factor productivity and resource use in developing countries.
Agenda
-
Jaap Sok (Business Economics, WUR) Farmers’ heterogeneous motives, voluntary vaccination and disease spread: an agent-based model -
Alan de Brauw (IFPRI) Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh -
Critical Gender Studies in the Life Sciences domains -
Farewell Address Professor Ekko van Ierland
Highlights
-
Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid KNAW - De KNAW heeft de Wageningse hoogleraar prof. Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid. Naast hem zijn nog twee Wageningse hoogleraren gekozen: prof. John van der... -
Call for Papers: 2018 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries - We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be held on 19 and 20 April at the...
Application self-funded PhD
Section Economics
Seminars Section Economics
Economics Blog
Latest publications
-
Money matters: The role of yields and profits in agricultural technology adoption
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101 (2019)3. - ISSN 0002-9092 - p. 710 - 731.
-
Transforming agribusiness in developing countries: SDGs and the role of FinTech
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 41 (2019). - ISSN 1877-3435 - p. 1 - 9.
-
Nutrition and food security impacts of quality seeds of biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato: Quasi-experimental evidence from Tanzania
World Development 124 (2019). - ISSN 0305-750X
-
Effect of market production on rural household food consumption: evidence from Uganda
Food Security (2019). - ISSN 1876-4517
-
Decisions by Chinese households regarding renting in arable land—The impact of tenure security perceptions and trust
China Economic Review (2019). - ISSN 1043-951X