Agenda
Coming up
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Moritz Drupp: Relative prices and climate policy. How the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation - We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we... -
Özge Öner: When Weak Ties are Strong. Ethnic enclaves, information frictions, and labor market sorting of immigrants - In this paper, we investigate the effects of ethnic enclaves on the economic prospects of newly arrived immigrants. Using a geo-coded full population... -
Liesbeth de Schutter: Monitoring the performance of the EU bioeconomy in society - Aiming at low carbon pathways and sustainable growth, the EU has embarked on a bioeconomy strategy to replace building blocks in the fossil economy by... -
International Students Summit (ISS) - Every BSc-student at Wageningen University is invited to apply for the position of student representative of Wageningen University to the 18th ISS...
Past activities
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Joachim de Weerdt: Paying More For Less. Why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts - Despite average daily per-capita consumption of roughly $1, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. -
Bruhan Konda: Social heterogeneity, benefit heterogeneity and public good provision - Ethnic identity and differences in social power between ethnic groups play a crucial role in determining the success of a collective action. While... -
Marrit van den Berg: Not my job - Both peer-to-peer punishment and institutions that sanction free-riders can lead to the more efficient provision of public goods. However, financial... -
Linde Götz: Egypt’s Wheat Tenders. A Public Noticeboard for Black Sea Grain Notations? - In season 2017/18, Russia is once more projected to become the world’s top wheat exporter. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, is... -
Jan Kok and Luc Bulten: Colonial population censuses in 18th Ceylon - RHI SEMINAR
Dutch Ceylon in the eighteenth century offers a fine opportunity to study the dynamics of administrative control of everyday family life... -
Maarten Voors: Healthcare Delivery during crises - The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Post-mortems on the crisis assert that engaged and accountable health... -
Eric Verhoef: Trading Trips. Using Tradable Permits to Manage Urban Mobility - The idea to use tradable permits for the regulation of road transport externalities has been around for already quite some time (e.g., Verhoef et al.,... -
Renate Hartwig: Eliciting the Willingness to Pay for Eyeglasses - In this paper, we assess the willingness to pay for eyeglasses in rural Burkina Faso. We use a variant of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method to... -
Information session about Buitex 2018 to Kaposvar, Hungary (YSS21303) - Information session on March 19 about the European bilateral exchange programme, meant for third year students from the BSc programmes 'Bedrijfs-en... -
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk: Challenging the de-industrialization thesis - Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization... -
Floor Groefsema: Images of the family farm during the formative years of post-war agricultural policy (1945-1970) - RHI SEMINAR
This paper focuses on the question how the phenomenon of the family farm has been portrayed in policy texts. It concentrates on a... -
Steven Poelhekke: Priority roads. The Political Economy of Connecting Mines Versus Cities - How does a change in political institutions affect infrastructure investment decisions? We answer this question empirically by focusing on West... -
Trond Husby: Spatial microsimulation for the Netherlands - Spatial microsimulation is a set of techniques that allow the characteristics of individuals living in a particular area to be approximated, based on... -
Jessica Barker: Inter-group cooperation in an environmental dilemma - Humans likely evolved to cooperate locally with members of small groups, at the expense of people in other groups. Because within-group cooperation... -
Koos Gardebroek: The relation between the University Teaching Qualification and lecturer evaluation scores at Wageningen University - At Wageningen University lecturers are evaluated with every course they teach, also known as students’ evaluations of lecturer performance... -
Michiel de Haas: "Unfortunately, the black man has taken note of the depreciation of our money" - RHI SEMINAR
While many recent studies of historical migration in Africa highlights political, cultural or social aspects, this study emphasizes its... -
Rein Haagsma: Income inequality and saving in a class society. The role of ordinal status - This paper examines the impact of income growth and income inequality on household saving rates and payoffs in a non-cooperative game where each... -
Jules Wehry: The prospects of algal oil as a substitute for fish oil in salmon feeds - Since 2014, aquaculture produces more food from aquatic animals than fisheries. However, the sector is still highly dependent upon the limited supply... -
Eveline van Leeuwen: The impact of social interactions on neighbourhood participation choices - Participation is associated with economic, social and wellbeing benefits. It provides activities and services to the local community, and research... -
Frederic Ang: Assessing productivity using the Bennet-Bowley-Lowe indicator: An application to Welsh sheep farm - This article introduces the Bennet-Bowley-Lowe Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indicator. Our proposed measure is difference-based, determinate and...