Agenda of the Section Economics
Coming up
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Erik Hornung (University of Cologne): “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany.”
23 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 23, Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in... -
Eric Schneider (London School of Economics): “Atmospheric Pollution and Child Morbidity from Respiratory Diseases: Evidence from the London Foundling Hospital 1897-1914.”
30 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 30, Eric Schneider (London School of Economics) will give a seminar entitled “Atmospheric Pollution and Child Morbidity from... -
Edoardo Baldoni (Joint Research Centre, Spain): “Estimating the impact of policies under spatial interference. The case of EU support to organic farming.”
07 May 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday May 7, Edoardo Baldoni (Joint Research Centre, Spain) will give a seminar entitled “Estimating the impact of policies under spatial... -
RHI Seminar: Xabier Garcia Fuente
16 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Xabier Garcia Fuente from the University of Barcelona.
The seminar... -
RHI Seminar: Mary Elisabeth Cox
30 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to an additional RHI Seminar. The speaker is Mary Elisabeth Cox from CEU Vienna.
The seminar will take place in room B0077 in...
Past activites
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Dr. Víctor Manuel Gómez-Blanco (Tilburg University) “Top earners and the Great Compression:New Estimates Based on Tax Records.”
23 May 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday May 23, Dr. Víctor Manuel Gómez-Blanco (Tilburg University) will present the paper “Top earners and the Great... -
RHI Seminar: The Determinants of Spatial Diffusion of Colonial Health Care Facilities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955
11 May 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Arlinde Vrooman (University of Groningen). She will be presenting her... -
Dr. Matthieu Stigler (ETH Zurich) “With big data come big problems: pitfalls in measuring basis risk for crop index insurance.”
25 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 25, Dr. Matthieu Stigler (ETH Zurich) will present the paper “With big data come big problems: pitfalls in measuring basis risk... -
Dr. Tavneet Suri (MIT Management Sloan School) “The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental Evidence from Kenya on Universal Basic Income.”
18 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 18, Dr. Tavneet Suri (MIT Management Sloan School) will present the paper “The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental... -
Dr. Hope Michelson (University of Illinios-UC) "Restoring Trust: Evidence from the Fertilizer Market in Tanzania.”
04 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 4, Dr. Hope Michelson (University of Illinios - UC) will present the paper "Restoring Trust: Evidence from the Fertilizer Market... -
RHI Seminar: Breaking Tradition: Teacher-student effects at English Universities during the Scientific Revolution
23 March 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to a RHI Seminar with speaker Julius Koschnick (London School of Economics). He will be presenting his paper titled: Breaking... -
RHI Seminar: Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926-2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
09 March 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of March. Our speaker for this month is Richard Franke (University of Bayreuth). He will be presenting his... -
Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS
27 February 2023 - Course -
RHI Seminar: Pupils today, astronauts tomorrow? The impact of Italy’s 1962 school Reform on human capital accumulation
09 February 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of February. Our speaker for this month is Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena). He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: The Effects of Immigration in an Agricultural Frontier Economy: Brazil 1890-1920
12 January 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of January. Our speaker for this month is Dr. Andrea Papadia (University of York). He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: Feeding African Cities: Hinterland Suitability & Urban Growth in 20th Century Sub-Saharan Africa
08 December 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of December. Our speaker for this month is Tanik Joshipura, of Wageningen University. He will be presenting... -
RHI Seminar: Capital and the ‘Cooperative’ in Rural India, 1904-1914
10 November 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of November. Our speaker for this month is dr. Maanik Nath from Utrecht University. He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880-1938
27 October 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of October. Our speaker for this month is Jean-Pascal Bassino, Professor of Economics at École Normale... -
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook Webinar
26 September 2022 - Webinar - This webinar presents 10 years trends and prospects for agricultural markets as well as key results from the Outlook’s scenario on sustainable... -
Dr. Maria Vrachioli (Technical University of Munich) Water in pesticide application and rationalinefficiency: The case of Spanish crop producers.
06 September 2022 - Seminar -
RHI Seminar: Indian cotton textiles and the evolution of spinningtechnology in the British cotton industry during the eighteenth century
06 September 2022 - Seminar - Our speaker for this month's seminar is Dr. Alka Raman from London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Raman will be presenting her paper... -
Professor Deepak Nayyar on The Asian Miracle - learning from a half-century of transformations
22 June 2022 - Seminar - You are all cordially invited to a Lecture organized by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), WUR Economics Section, N.W. Posthumus Institute... -
Michael Grimm (University of Passau) The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century US fertility
14 June 2022 - Seminar -
RHI Seminar: Merciful Tyrants? Explaining Rebel Forgiveness and State Capacity in Mughal South Asia (1556-1707)
09 June 2022 - Seminar - This month, we are excited to welcome Ms. Safya Morshed from the London School of Economics. The seminar will take place in room B0073 at the... -
Piero Ronzani (University of Trento) “Lateral reading and incentives to spot disinformation about science.”
07 June 2022 - Seminar