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DENeB brings together researchers in the Berlin area who are working on themes related to Development Economics. The seminar series gives invited guests the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from members of the network.
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Hosts: Department of Development and Security
Place: DIW Berlin, Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin
Room: see time table
Time: 12.30 - 2.00 pm
Coordinator: Antonia Grohmann
- Summer 2018
- Winter 2017/18
- Summer 2017
- Winter 2016/17
- Summer 2016
- Winter 2015/16
- Summer 2015
- Winter 2014/15
- Summer 2014
- Winter 2013/14
Summer 2018
Winter 2017/18
Summer 2017
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 27th Apr | 12.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) |
Jörg Peters | RWI Essen | One-off Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption – Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal (paper) |
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11th May |
12.30 | Priya Bhagowalia | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Do food subsidies improve nutrition? | |
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8th Jun |
12.30 | Schmoller (1.2.026) | Matthias Kalkuhl | Mercator Research Institute | The impact of environmental shocks on migration drivers: The case of rural-urban migration in India (abstract | PDF, 30.36 KB ) |
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22th Jun |
12.30 | Macartan Humphreys | Columbia and WZB | Why do women cooperate more in women’s groups? Evidence from a field experiment and structural model in Congo | |
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6th Jul |
12.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) |
Katja Kaufmann | University of Mannheim | Gender Peer Effects, Non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Market Outcomes: Evidence from Single-Sex Schools in the UK |
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13th Jul |
12.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Nathan Fiala | University of Connecticut | Social accountability and service delivery: Evidence from a large-scale experiment in Uganda (abstract | PDF, 28.36 KB ) |
Winter 2016/17
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 4th Oct | 13.00 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) |
Imran Rasul | UCL | Hispanic-White Sentencing Di¤erentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System (paper) |
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3rd Nov |
17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) |
Nolan Ritter | DIW Berlin | The causal effect of village schools on Afghan children's enrollment and test scores (paper) |
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17th Nov |
17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Devesh Rustagi | Goethe University Frankfurt | Dishonesty, Market Power, and Cheating in Informal Milk Markets in India (abstract) |
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24th Nov |
17.30 |
Please note! This seminar |
Jean-Philippe Platteau | University of Namur | Eradicating Women-Hurting Customs: What Role for Social Engineering? (paper) |
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1st Dec |
17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Greg Fischer | LSE | Building evidence from multiple studies: Is there a gender performance-pay gap? (abstract) |
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8th Dec |
17.30 | Schumpeter Hall (1st floor) |
Ola Olsson | University of Gothenburg | Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo (paper) |
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15th Dec |
17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Dave Donaldson | Stanford University | Dynamics of a Malthusian Economy: India in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza (paper) |
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12th Jan |
17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Rainer Thiele | Kiel Institute for the World Economy | Social Capital and Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation in Zambia (paper) |
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26th Jan |
17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Matthias Rieger | Erasmus University | Self-Help-Groups and Social Capital: Evidence from Cambodia (paper) |
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16th Feb |
17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) |
David McKenzie | World Bank | Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya (abstract) |
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23th Feb |
Dulles (5.2.010) | Barry J. Barnett | Mississippi State University | "So Much Potential!”: The Case of Agricultural Index Insurance (abstract) |
Summer 2016
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 14th Apr | 16.15 |
Please note this seminar will exceptionally held at the |
Thorsten Beck | Cass Business School
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Payment Instruments, Enforceability and Development: Evidence from Mobile Money Technology |
| 28th Apr | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Michal Bauer | CERGE-EI | Social Contagion of Ethnic Hostility |
| 19th May | 16:00 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Mushfiq Mobarak | Yale University | General Equilibrium Effects of Rural-Urban Migration (abstract) |
| 26th May | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Kristina Czura | University of Munich | Willingness-to-pay for micro-insurance and flexibility: Evidence from an agricultural investment lab-in-the-file in Senegal (abstract) |
| 9th Jun | 17.30 | Please note this seminar will exceptionally held at the School of Business and Economics at the Humboldt University, Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin (Room 125) |
Paul Dunne | University of Cape Town | Determinants of Civil War and Excess Zeroes (abstract) |
| 30th Jun | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Abigail Barr | University of Nottingham | The collective action mechanism in community-based monitoring: Field and lab experimental evidence from Uganda schools (abstract) |
| 7th Jul | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Karl Ove Moene | University of Oslo | The role of inequality in conflict theory (paper) |
| 21st Jul | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Hermann Lotze-Campen | PIK | The impact of climate change on costs of food and people exposed to hunger at subnational scale (abstract) |
Winter 2015/16
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 15th Oct | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Isabel Günther | ETH Zürich |
Financial distress among urban microfinance clients: the impact of formal loans or a general phenomenon? |
| 20th Oct | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Emmanuelle Auriol | Toulouse School of Economics | Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Trade (paper) |
| 29th Oct | 18.00 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Barbara Fritz | Free University Berlin |
The IMF to the rescue: Did the Euro-area benefit from the fund's experience in crisis fighting? |
| 12th Nov | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Dean Yang | University of Michigan | Savings, Subsidies, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique (abstract) |
| 10th Dec | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Lukas Menkhoff | DIW Berlin, Humboldt University | When does financial education impact financial behavior? A meta-analysis |
| 7th Jan | 17.30 | Room 21B, Humboldt University, Spandauer Str. 1 |
Scott Gates | Peace Research Institute Oslo |
Political Trust, Shocks, and Accountability: Quasi-experimental evidence from a rebel attack (abstract) |
| 21st Jan | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Natascha Wagner | ISS - Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Policing and Human Rights in Uganda: Impact Assessment and Gender-Framed Survey Experiments (abstract) |
| 4th Feb | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Hermann Waibel | Leibniz University of Hannover | Challenges of Long term panel data collection in Developing countries: Non-Sampling Error and Data Quality |
| 18th Feb | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2.008) | Lore Vandewalle | The Graduate Institute Geneva |
Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India (abstract) |
Summer 2015
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 23rd April | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Kaivan Munshi | University of Cambridge |
Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural - Urban Wage Gap (paper) |
| 7th May | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Gani Aldashev | University of Namur | Institutions and firm ownership |
| 21st May | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Toman Mahmoud | IFW Kiel |
The effect of remittances on public spending and governance: Micro-evidence from village-level exposure to exchange rate shocks |
| 4th June | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Justin Valasek | WZB Berlin Social Science Center | Reforming an Institutional Culture of Corruption: Collective reputation and motivated agents (abstract) |
| 16th June | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Nathan Fiala | University of Connecticut | Business is tough, but family is worse: The role of family constraints on microenterprise development in Uganda (abstract) |
| 2nd July | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Jochen Kluve | Humboldt University | The effectiveness of TVET and youth training: evidence from Vietnam and the Dominican Republic |
| 16th July | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Barbara Fritz | Free University |
CANCELLED: |
Winter 2014/15
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 23th Oct | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Andreas Landmann | University of Mannheim | How social preferences change with (not) becoming elected? (view Abstract | PDF, 170.84 KB ) |
| 6th Nov | 17.30 | Friedensburg (2.2008) | Marcela Ibanez | University of Göttingen | Can we fight drugs using communication campaigns? A field experiment in Columbia |
| 4th Dec | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Rajshri Jayaraman | ESMT | Impact of Nutritional Interventions on cognitive skills: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program |
| 16th Dec (Tuesday) | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Britta Augsburg | Institute for Fiscal Studies | RCT Research: When it works (as planned) and when it doesn't? Taking the case of microfinance evaluation studies (view Abstract) |
| 8th Jan | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Manfred Nitsch | Free University Berlin | Bloqueo Economics in Cuba (view Presentation) |
| 22th Jan | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Simon Quinn | University of Oxford | Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Using Mobile Phones to Survey African Microenterprises |
| 5th Feb | 17.30 | Dulles (5.2.010) | Marleen Dekker | Leiden University | Household efficiency in monogamous and polygamous marriages in Nigeria: results from a behavioural experiment |
Summer 2014
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 27th Mar | 17.30 | Dulles | Marcel Fafchamps | Stanford University | Redistribution and Group Participation: Comparative Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK |
| 10th Apr | 17.30 | Dulles | Yanos Zylberberg | CREI Barcelona | Internal migration as a risk-coping strategy: evidence from a typhoon |
| 24th Apr | 17.30 | Dulles | Jean Marie Baland | Namur University | The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families in Cameroon |
| 8th May | 17.30 | Dulles | Conchita D'Ambrosio | Université du Luxembourg | Economic Insecurity: measure and application |
| 21st May | 17.30 | Dulles | Susan Steiner | Leibniz Universität Hannover | Financial Development and Employment - Evidence from Transition Countries (article) |
| 5th June | 17.30 | Dulles | Christine Binzel | Heidelberg University | Does the Arrival of a Formal Financial Institution Alter Informal Sharing Arrangements? Experimental Evidence from Village India |
| 3rd July | 17.30 | Dulles | Olga Shemyakina | Georgia Institute of Technology | Political Violence, Land Reform and Child Health: Results from Zimbabwe (abstract) |
| 17th July | 17.30 | Dulles | Kati Krähnert | DIW | Extreme weather events and child health: Evidence from Mongolia (abstract) |
Winter 2013/14
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| 24th Oct | 17.30 | Dulles | Rajshri Jayaraman | ESMT | Productivity Response to a Contract Change |
| 7th Nov | 17.30 | Dulles | Jean-Luis Arcand | Graduate Institute Geneva | Guns, Germs, and Slaves: an Alternative View of the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development |
| 14th Nov |
17.30 | Dulles | Nathan Fiala |
DIW | Can Small Enterprises Grow? Results from an Experiment in Uganda (article) |
| 21st Nov |
17.30 | Dulles | Ferdinand Vieider | WZB | Risk Preferences and Development Revisited (article) |
| 5th Dec |
17.30 | Dulles | Marijke Verpoorten |
University of Antwerp | The unintended consequences of an export ban: evidence from Benin's shrimp sector. (article) |
| 19th Dec |
17.30 | Dulles | Michael Grimm | Universität Passau | Does forced solidarity hamper investment in small and micro enterprises? (article) |
| 9th Jan |
17.30 | Dulles | Christian Ambrosius | Freie Universität Berlin | Remittances and the Financial Management of Migrant Households (article) |
| 23rd Jan |
17.30 | Dulles | Krisztina Kis-Katos | Universität Freiburg | Unintended consequences of anti-corruption strategies: Public fiscal audits and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon(abstract) |
| 6th Feb |
17.30 | Dulles | Stephan Klasen | Universität Göttingen | What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India? (article) |
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