Agenda
Coming up
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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... -
Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University): “Progress in the Pipeline: Cholera, Politics and the Waterworks Revolution in Germany”
14 May 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday May 14, Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen University) will give a seminar entitled “Progress in the Pipeline: Cholera,... -
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.
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Stefan Leeffers (University College London): “It Will Rain: The Effect of Information on Flood Preparedness in Urban Mozambique”
28 May 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday May 28, Stefan Leeffers (University College London) will give a seminar entitled “It Will Rain: The Effect of Information on Flood... -
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... -
RHI Seminar: Rebecca Simson
13 June 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of June. Our speaker for this month is Rebecca Simson from the University of Oxford.
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Symposium: ‘‘Will the newly elected European Parliament accelerate the Green Transition?’’
25 June 2024 - Symposium - The symposium will be an in-person event at the World Trade Center in The Hague (the Netherlands) from 13:30 – 16:30 with drinks afterwards....
Past activities
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Dadan Wardhana: Farmer Performance under Peer Pressure in Agro-clusters
19 October 2017 - Seminar -
Flavio Souza: Investigating consideration and choice. Exploring a goal-based choice set formation and purpose-driven domestic fuel consumption in India
12 October 2017 - Seminar - In this talk, I will cover two different research threads that I have been focusing on: the first which was the focus of my PhD and can potentially be... -
Cornelis van Kooten: Economics of Renewable Energy and Electricity Grids
05 October 2017 - Seminar - Mitigating climate change will require reduced use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. To do so and eschewing nuclear power, countries have... -
Maarten Voors: Community Development in The Long Run
28 September 2017 - Seminar - Decades of unaccountable leadership, conflict and underdevelopment have limited the reach of the state into rural Sierra Leone and left communities... -
Erwin Bulte: Women Empowerment and Domestic Abuse
21 September 2017 - Seminar - Intimate partner violence is an important global health problem that policy makers seek to address by promoting women empowerment. -
Nicola Francesconi: Capacity Strengthening for a New Generation of Cooperative Agribusiness in Afric
14 September 2017 - Seminar - This study defines an impact pathway for the next generation of agricultural cooperatives in Africa. The pathway so far involved the organization of... -
Mohammed Degnet (AEP): Private capital, public goods
07 September 2017 - Seminar - With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike.... -
Joeri Smits: Microcredit, financial literacy and household financial distress
06 July 2017 - Seminar - This paper studies the effect of microcredit uptake on household financial distress. Drawing on quasi-experimental survey data collected in urban... -
Ben D'Exelle: Investment Behaviour and Village Networks
09 June 2017 - Seminar - Using data on farmers' social networks and agricultural decisions from 28 villages in Uganda, we analyse the influence of their network position on... -
Holly Wang: Does Animal Welfare matter to Chinese?
06 June 2017 - Seminar - Modern agricultural technologies have focused on improving the production efficiency, resulting in some animal treatment methods in the livestock,... -
Zhang-Yue Zhou: Fighting Food Insecurity
02 June 2017 - Seminar - As a whole, Asia has made a remarkable achievement in feeding its huge populations and improving its food security since World War II. However, food... -
Sebastian Lakner: Greening and the Ecological Focus Area
01 June 2017 - Seminar - With the Greening and the Ecological Focus Areas (EFA), the EU has introduced a new agri-environmental instrument within the Common Agricultural... -
Anouschka Groeneveld (AEP): Effects on participation and biodiversity of reforming the implementation of agri-environmental schemes in the Netherlands
18 May 2017 - Seminar - To prevent further biodiversity loss as a result of intensive agricultural practices, Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) have been implemented on... -
Jörg Peters: One-off Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption. Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal
04 May 2017 - Seminar - Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by... -
Xiaobo Zhang: E-commerce Expands the Bandwidth of Entrepreneurship
19 April 2017 - Seminar - Social networks are cornerstones of personal trade in developing countries. However, it is costly to build and maintain social networks. The high cost... -
Friederike Lenel: Choice Conditional Solidarity
13 April 2017 - Seminar - We investigate the interplay of formal insurance and social preference driven support in a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. We... -
Ashmita Gupta: Trade Liberalization and Quantity and Quality of Education Attainment
06 April 2017 - Seminar - This paper presents new insights into the linkage between trade liberalization and human capital formation by looking at the attainment and quality of... -
Marc Bellemare: Contract Farming as Partial Insurance
30 March 2017 - Seminar - A rich literature on principal-agent relationships has long contended that contracts can be used to transfer risk from a risk-averse to a risk-neutral... -
Alfons Balmann: Towards a Theory of Structural Change in Agriculture. Just Economics?
29 March 2017 - Seminar - Though structural changes in the agricultural sector have huge merits for economic development, the public opinion on structural change is quite... -
Jan Duchoslav: Prenatal Temperature Shocks Reduce Cooperation
23 March 2017 - Seminar - Jan Duchoslav of the Development Economics Group explores the effect of temperature shocks in utero on later-life taste for cooperation.