Rural and Environmental History Group

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  Robert Lensink (DEC): Uptake and impact of interlinked Index-based Insurance with credit and agricultural Input 23 April 2019 - Seminar - This paper examines the results of randomized experiments in Ethiopia that assess the relevance of bundling index-based insurance (IBI) with credit...
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  Hilde Bras (RHI): Women’s position, sibling inequalities, and child nutritional status in Ethiopia 30 April 2019 - Seminar - Women’s position is often seen as key to improved child nutrition. Empowered women may improve children’s nutritional status through...
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  Gerrit Antonides (UEC): Effects of asymmetric expectation disconfirmation and evaluability of mobile phone attributes on consumer satisfaction 07 May 2019 - Seminar - We study the determinants of consumer satisfaction with mobile phones on the basis of perceived product attribute performance and disconfirmation of...
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  Salvatore di Falco (Université de Genève): Poverty and Self Esteem 14 May 2019 - Seminar - Individual self-esteem levels were elicited in three rounds of panel data in the Nile Basin region of Ethiopia to determine whether droughts during...
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  Assessing Economics and Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS 19 August 2019 - Summer school - Irreversible effects do play an important role in private as well as public decision making. The basis for the Precautionary Principle, an important...
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  XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019 11 September 2019 - Congress

Highlights

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  Ewout Frankema ontvangt Ammodo Science Award 2019 Donderdag 11 april is voor de derde keer de Ammodo Science Award uitgereikt. Tijdens de feestelijke avond in Internationaal Theater Amsterdam namen...
• T.S. Ashton Prize for Michiel de Haas Michiel de Haas his paper “Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive?” has won the T.S. Ashton...
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  New PostDoc Daniel Gallardo Albarran We would like to introduce our new Postdoc Daniel Gallardo Albarran who started working with us on February 1:
  
  
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  New PhD Tanik Joshipura We would like to introduce our new PhD student Tanik Joshipura who started working with us on February 1:
  
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  Ammodo Science Award 2019 for WUR historian Ewout Frankema Ewout Frankema, Professor of Agrarian and Environmental History at Wageningen University & Research, has won an Ammodo Science Award 2019. This...
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  Economics Research Covered by The Economist
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  RHI receives Education Innovation Subsidy 2018 25 May 2018 - For the academic year 2018-2019 RHI has received a grant for an education innovation project for the course RHI-10506:...