Agenda
Coming up
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019
Past activities
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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... -
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 Kelvin 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