Programme
3rd PODER Summer School
"New Data in Development Economics"
27-30 June, University of Namur
Main Speakers
Emily Breza (Columbia)
Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford and CEPR)
Mariaflavia Harari (Wharton School of Management)
Henrik Kleven (LSE and CEPR)
Renaud Lambiotte (UNamur)
Programme
Monday 27 June |
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08:30-09:00 |
Registration |
09:00-12:00 |
Issues in Network Data |
12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:20 |
Child Nutritional Status and Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Indian Migrants in England |
14:20-14:40 |
Mobile Money and Risk Sharing Against Aggregate Shocks |
14:40-15:00 |
Banking and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in India |
15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-15:50 |
Disenfranchisement and political participation: evidence from the Brazilian Dictatorship |
15:50-16:10 |
Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China |
16:10-16:30 |
We Don’t Need No Education: Reconstruction and Conflict across Afghanistan |
19:30 |
Welcome Dinner |
Tuesday 28 June |
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09:00-12:00 |
Spatial Methods in Development Economics |
12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:20 |
Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics |
14:20-14:40 |
Using Cell Phone Data to Improve Disease Targeting and Mitigate the Negative Externality of Internal Population Movement |
14:40-15:00 |
The hidden value and cost of participatory decision-making: Evidence from a lab-in-the- field experiment in Bangladesh |
15:00-15:20 |
Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa |
15:20-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
15:50-16:10 |
The Effect of Aspirations on Investment in Human Capital: Empirical Evidence from UK State Schools |
16:10-16:30 |
Measuring Trust in Institutions: An Experimental Study Using Time Preference Elicitation |
16:30-16:50 |
Do the effects of labour market interventions spill over through social networks? Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia |
16:50-17:10 |
The test effect: Behavioral change and potential biases due to (biomedical) testing in surveys |
17:10-17:30 |
Informality In Africa: Institutions and Social Capital |
19:30 |
Professor’s Dinner |
Wednesday 29 June |
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09:00-12:00 |
Taxation and Development: What Can Be Learned From Large Administrative Data Sets? |
12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:20 |
Aspirations and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Indian Adolescents |
14:20-14:40 |
Conservation: For Love or Fame? |
14:40-15:00 |
The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery |
15:00-15:20 |
Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development |
15:20-15:50 |
Coffee Break |
15:50-16:10 |
History and access to land on the frontier |
16:10-16:30 |
Households in Times of War: Adaptation Strategies during the Nepal Civil War |
16:30-16:50 |
Beyond profits. The non-monetary benefits of cattle rearing. Evidence from Uganda |
16:50-17:10 |
Neighborhood Effect in Bureaucracy: The Case of Chinese Coalmine Safety |
19:30 |
Dinner |
Thursday 30 June |
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09:00-12:00 |
Social Networks and Development |
12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-17:30 |
Mining large-scale social networks |