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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Alan de Brauw (IFPRI) Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh
24 September 2019 - Seminar -
Jaap Sok (Business Economics, WUR) Farmers’ heterogeneous motives, voluntary vaccination and disease spread: an agent-based model
17 September 2019 - Seminar -
Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): Who exits from a reforming sector? The case of dairy farmers in Israel
10 September 2019 - Seminar -
Ewout Frankema (Rural and Environmental History, Wageningen University) The Great Convergence. Skill Accumulation and Mass Education in Africa and Asia, 1870-present
03 September 2019 - Seminar -
Esther Gehrke (U California, Berkeley, USA) Technical change and fertility: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia
21 August 2019 - Seminar -
Jenny Aker (Tufts University, Boston): Let it Rain. What Drives the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel?
02 July 2019 - Seminar - While it is widely recognized that sustained yield improvements in areas with highly degraded soils require intensive agricultural practices, the... -
Farewell Professor Wim Heijman
27 June 2019 - Valedictory symposium -
Daniel Gregg (University of Adelaide): Is consumption sticky for the rural poor?
26 June 2019 - Seminar - Consumption and savings play a key role in the prevalence of chronic poverty. Yet the dynamics with respect to income and over time have been rarely... -
Itamar Megiddo (University of Strathclyde): What is the value of antibiotics? Models of withholding antibiotics
18 June 2019 - Seminar - The existing business models for antibiotics fail to promote antibiotics stewardship to preserve our existing portfolio of drugs, while at the same... -
Jacob de Hoop (UNICEF): Lost Horizon, the impact of terminating cash support to displaced Syrian children in Jordan
11 June 2019 - Seminar - Humanitarian funding is volatile. Consequently, humanitarian interventions are often scaled down while the crisis they are designed to address is... -
Frits Bos (CPB): Nature in cost-benefit analysis for water management
28 May 2019 - Seminar - The way nature has been incorporated in Dutch cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) for water management has changed drastically over time: from CBAs in which... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Lars Hein (Environmental System Analysis, WUR): The System of Environmental Economic Accounting
02 April 2019 - Seminar - The SEEA Central framework has been broadly used to account for stocks and uses of non-renewable (and some renewable) resources. In the Netherlands,... -
Jasper Meya (University of Oldenburg): Inter- and intragenerational distribution and the valuation of natural capital
19 March 2019 - Seminar - This paper studies how the intra- and intergenerational distribution of income affects the economic valuation of non-use environmental public goods... -
Belinda Archibong (Barnard College): 'An ill wind that blows no girl any good'. The Impacts of climate-induced disease on gender inequality
14 March 2019 - Seminar - Despite notable investments in education, persistent gender gaps in educational attainment remain in developing countries. One potential explanation... -
Bram van Besouw (UU): Death at a Distance? Warfare and civilian mortality in theseventeenth-century Low Countries
12 March 2019 - Seminar - Using newly collected data from burial records and war events in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, we test the intuitive links between warfare... -
Michail Moatsos (UU): The confidence level of the first millennium development goal
05 March 2019 - Seminar - The dollar-a-day method, applied in monitoring the UN's development goals against poverty, provides no confidence interval for the official figures of... -
Lubos Smutka and Karel Malec (Czech University of Life Sciences): Volatility and liquidity on commodity markets
26 February 2019 - Seminar - In todays markets, commodities are frequently characterized by an increasing trend in the long term. There were significant fluctuations of commodity...