Agenda
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... -
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.
The seminar will take... -
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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Otto Raspe (PBL): The geography of economic growth and the need for new policies
19 February 2019 - Seminar - 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
12 February 2019 - Seminar - 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
05 February 2019 - Seminar - 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
29 January 2019 - Seminar - 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
22 January 2019 - Seminar - What is the link between female entrepreneurship and gender norms in developing countries? We implement an incentivized experiment in India in order... -
Achim Hagen (Humboldt University Berlin): Boon or bane? Trade sanctions and the stability of international environmental agreements
08 January 2019 - Seminar - 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
18 December 2018 - Seminar - 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
11 December 2018 - Seminar - Most previous evidence on employment and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is based on correlational studies. While such correlations are illustrative... -
Daniel Slunge (U Göteborg): Market-based instruments in chemicals management, a good idea or not?
04 December 2018 - Seminar - Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are... -
José Zofio (U Autonoma de Madrid and U Rotterdam): Introducing Economic Inefficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs
27 November 2018 - Seminar - 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
20 November 2018 - Seminar - 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?
13 November 2018 - Seminar - 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
08 November 2018 - Seminar - 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
06 November 2018 - Seminar - 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
30 October 2018 - Seminar - 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... -
Martijn Huysmans: Exporting Protection
16 October 2018 - Seminar - Starting with the 2009 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, the EU has achieved increased external protection for some of its Geographical... -
Christine Binzel: Economic Development, Trust, and Social Norms
09 October 2018 - Seminar -
Maria Vrachioli: Impact evaluation of alternative irrigation technology in Crete
03 October 2018 - Seminar - The interest in promoting food and water security through development projects has led to the need for tools that can evaluate the impact of these... -
Erik Ansink: Crowdfunding public goods, an experiment
25 September 2018 - Seminar - We assess the success of crowdfunding public goods using a lab-in-the-field experiment. Our aim is to decrease coordination problems that may occur... -
Kutay Cingiz: Perfect information games where each player acts only once
18 September 2018 - Seminar - We study perfect information games played by an infinite sequence of players, each acting only once in the course of the game. We introduce a class of...