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.
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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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Steven Poelhekke: Priority roads. The Political Economy of Connecting Mines Versus Cities
08 March 2018 - Seminar - 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
01 March 2018 - Seminar - 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
22 February 2018 - Seminar - 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
15 February 2018 - Seminar - 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"
13 February 2018 - Seminar - 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
08 February 2018 - Seminar - 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
01 February 2018 - Seminar - 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
25 January 2018 - Seminar - 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
18 January 2018 - Seminar - This article introduces the Bennet-Bowley-Lowe Total Factor Productivity (TFP) indicator. Our proposed measure is difference-based, determinate and... -
Paul Hofman (DEC): Do African farmers benefit from large-scale agrarian land acquisitions?
11 January 2018 - Seminar - Global food shortages and rising fossil fuel prices in and around 2008 spurred investors to reconsider Africa as the continent with apparently the... -
Tafesse Gezahegn: Welfare Effects of Marginal-Cost Water Pricing
21 December 2017 - Seminar - A recently published work by Gezahegn and Zhu (2017) estimates the marginal cost (MC) of residential water supply in the Ethiopian city of Mekelle.... -
Niek Mouter: Participatory Value Evaluation and Citizen Stated Choice Experiment
14 December 2017 - Seminar - Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) is used worldwide to support decision-making on government projects. An underlying assumption in CBA is that the... -
Lisa Jaeckering: Communication networks and the adoption of technologies
07 December 2017 - Seminar - There is a growing body of literature focusing on the importance of peer effects on adoption decisions. However, little attention is paid on how... -
Iddo Kan: Integrated Micro-Macro Structural Econometric Framework for Assessing Climate-Change Impacts on Agricultural Production and Food Markets
30 November 2017 - Seminar - We develop a structural econometric micro-level farmland supply model that is linked to a market-level equilibrium model. The estimation accounts for... -
Goedele van den Broeck: Horticultural exports and food security in Senegal
23 November 2017 - Seminar - Horticultural exports from developing countries are expanding. While concerns are rising about the consequences of this growth for local food... -
Anna Minasyan: The role of conflict in sex discrimination
16 November 2017 - Seminar - The role of conflict has been largely overlooked in the 'missing girls' literature. Evidence from an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia... -
Wendy Janssens: The Power to Protect. Household Bargaining and Female Condom Use
09 November 2017 - Seminar - Women may have a higher willingness than men to adopt technologies that increase household welfare. If adoption of a technology must be agreed upon by... -
Sofia Trommlerova: The Effect of Girls’ Schooling on Their Mothers’ Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence
02 November 2017 - Seminar - We estimate the intergenerational spillover effects of children’s education on their mothers’ attitudes towards domestic violence in... -
Dominika Milczarek: Farmers’ Associations in Poland, how powerful are they in the eyes of their members
26 October 2017 - Seminar -
Dadan Wardhana: Farmer Performance under Peer Pressure in Agro-clusters
19 October 2017 - Seminar