Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2016

Registration

Venue: Library entrance, 1st floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 1

Corruption

1) Ann- Sofie Isaksson: "Chinese aid and local corruption "

2) Mengyang Zhang : "The impact of corruption on fiscal capacity using provincial panel data in China"

3) Olga Neselevska (chair) : "Public Sector Corruption and Trust in the Private Sector"

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Household Micro 1

1) Anna Welander: "Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data"

2) Charlotte Ringdal: "Is female empowerment good for child welfare?"

3) Joe Vecci (chair): "The Fish is the Friend of Matriliny: Reef Density and Matrilineal Inheritance"

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

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Finance, Insurance and Institutions

1) Justin Valasek: "Reforming an Institutional Culture of Corruption: A Model of Motivated Agents and Collective Reputation"

2) Katja Kalkschmied: "Rebundling Institutions: Interrelated Institutional Elements and Economic Outcomes at the Micro-Level"

3) Anuj Pratap Singh: "Impact of Micro-insurance on Financial Outcomes and Health

4) Benedikte Bjerge (chair): “Extreme Weather and Demand for Index Insurance in Rural India”

Venue: Group room 7, Georg Sverdrups building

Coffee break

Venue: outside group rooms, 3rd floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Keynote: Development Economics: Why Use Experiments?

By Bertil Tungodden, Professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Venue: Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 2

Political and Natural Resources

1) Nemera Gebeyehy Mamo: “Economic Consequences of Mineral Discovery and Extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Curse?”

2) Eivind Hammersmark Olsen (chair): “Early Industrialization and Protests: Evidence from African Industrial Mines”

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Agriculture

1) Kacana Sipangule: “Social Capital and Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation in Zambia”

2) Marta Kozicka: “Public Distribution System vs. Market: Analysis of Wheat and Rice Consumption in India”

3) Ram Fishman (chair): “How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Women Farmers? Evidence from a ‘Reverse-Randomized Control Trial in Uganda”

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

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Finance Micro

1) Ggombe Kasim Munyegera: “ICT for Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money and the Financial Behavior of Rural Households in Uganda”

2) Magnus Hatlebakk: “Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation”

3) Tara Bedi (chair): “Access to Credit and Welfare Outcomes: Does the Gender of the Recipient Matter?”

Venue: Group room 7, Georg Sverdrups building

Lunch

Venue: Canteen “Kafè Sverdrup”, 2nd floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 3

Health

1) Axel Demenet: “Health Shocks and Permanent Income Loss: The Household Business channel”

2) Gudrun Østby: “Development Aid and Infant Mortality”

3) Melinda Vigh (chair): “Measuring the Effectiveness of Non-randomized Policy Interventions: the Example of the One Million Initiative in Mozambique”

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Public and Political 1

1) Jörgen Levin: “Welfare Impact of Broadening VAT by Exempting Small-Scale Food Markets: the Case of Bangladesh”

2) Pelle Ahlerup: “Public Goods and Tax Compliance: the Case of Local Health Care in Rwanda”

3) Gry Østenstad (chair): “Add and Rule”

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

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Aid, Inequality and Employment

1) Rune Jansen Hagen: “Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice”

2) Tuomas Malinen: “Nonlinearity and Cross-Country Dynamics of Income Inequality”

3) Edward Asiedu (chair): “Can Employment Interventions Help Enhance Decentralized Development Participation? Evidence from Togo”

Venue: Group room 7, Georg Sverdrups building

Coffee break

Venue: outside group rooms 3rd floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 4

Household Micro 2

1)  Margaryta Klymak: “Trade Impacts of Naming and Shaming of Forced and Child Labor”

2) Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay: “Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments. Evidence from India’s Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme”

3) Espen Villanger (chair): ”Awareness Raising Against Domestic Violence: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial in Ethiopia”

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Behavioral/ Experiments 1

1) Subha Mani: “Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India”

2) Ingrid Hoem Sjursen: “Trust and Honesty in Development. Behavioral and Survey Data from Tanzania”

3) Jörg Langbein: “That’s my Turf: An Experimental Analysis of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries in Indonesia”

4) Yonas Alem (chair): “Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India”

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

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Household Micro 3

1) Henrik Wiig: “Women Flee and Men Stay in Conflicts? A RDS sample Regression Analysis of Colombian IDPs”

2) Saurabh Singhal: “Coffee Price Volatility and Intra-household Labour Supply: Evidence from Vietnam”

3) Tseday Mekasha (chair): “Social Protection Programs and Household Demographic Dynamics: Capturing Unintended Outcomes”

Venue: Group room 7, Georg Sverdrups building

Dinner

Venue: Meeting room, 2nd floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 5

Public and Political 2

1) Matteo Alpino: “On a Mission from God: the historical roots of development aid allocation”

2) Ola Olsson: “Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo”

3) Felipe Starosta De Waldemar (chair): “On the Economic Consequences of Political Turnover: Evidence from Mozambican Firms”

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Behavioral/Experiments 2

1) Sandra Halvorsen: “Endowement Heterogenity and Efficiency in a Public Good Game of Married Couples: Evidence from Ethiopia”

2) Utteeyo Dasgupta: “Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field”

3) Arne Wiig (chair): “How do Voters Respond to Information on Elite Behaviour? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Tanzania”

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

Coffee break

Venue: outside group rooms, 3rd floor, Georg Sverdrups building

Session 6

Education

1) Marine de Talancé: “ Quality Perceptions and School Choice in Rural Pakistan “

2) Nina Bruvik Westberg : “ Girls’ Lead : the Role of Bride Price in Inducing on-time School Enrollment “

3) Smriti Sharma (chair) : ”Cognitive, Non-Cognitive and Behavioral Returns to College Quality : Evidence from India “

Venue: Group room 1, Georg Sverdrups building

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Macro

1) Marin Ferry: “Economic Volatility and Inequality: Do Aid and Remittances matter?”

2) Miguel Nino-Zarazua: “Natural Resources, Electoral Behaviour and Social Assistance in Latin America”

3) Neda Trifkovic: “Private Standards and Labour Productivity in the Food Sector in Vietnam”

4) Christian Ambrosius (chair): “Do Remittances Crowd-In or Crowd-Out Public Expenditure?”

Venue: Group room 4, Georg Sverdrups building

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Climate

1) Akampumuza Precious: “Weather Shocks and Urban Livelihood Strategies: the Gender Dimension of Household Vulnerability in the Kumi District of Uganda”

2) Francisco Oteiza Aguirre: “Weather shocks and Agriculture: Effects and Responses in Rural Peru”

3) Amsalu Woldie Yalew (chair): “Planned Public Adaptation to Climate Change. A CGE Analysis for Ethiopia”

Venue: Group room 7, Georg Sverdrups building

Lunch

Venue: Canteen “Kafè Sverdrup”, 2nd floor, Georg Sverdrups building