Overview and detailed program for NCDE2023

Time

Program

Speaker and title

Room

16.00

Registration

SEB-salen, House E, floor 4

16.30-17.30

Parallel Session 1

Session 1.1: Conflict and Technology Adoption 

Fenella Carpena: The Effect of the Colombian Ceasefire on Household Investment

Guohao Yang: The input channels of development: evidence from cotton planting technology adoption in 1920s China

B34

Session 1.2: Gender 1

Marine de Talance: Compulsory education, fertility and childlessness in Indonesia

Rami Zalfou: Female labor, ethnic inequality, and sectoral composition in the Middle East: Evidence from census data

B41

Session 1.3: Inequality

Elena Perra: The inequality costs of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

Chandre Jacobs: Income inequality in South Africa: evidence from individual-level tax data

B44

Session 1.4: Labour 1

Apurav Bhatiya: Expected Benefits and Costs of Migration for Rural Youth: Experimental Evidence from India

Shotaro Nishimura Nakamura: Distributional and Productivity Implications of Regulating Casual Labor: Evidence from Ridesharing in Indonesia

C32

17.25

Info and Welcome

17.30

Keynote

Chris Blattman: Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

SEB-salen, House E, floor 4

18.30

Welcome Mingle

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

Time

Program

Speaker & title

Rooms TBA

8.30

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

8.55

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

9.00

Keynote

Martina Björkman Nyqvist: Community Health Provision at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uganda

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

10.00 

Coffee

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

10.20-11.50

Parallel Session 2

Session 2.1: Political Econ 1

Martin Mattsson: Formalizing Dispute Resolution: Effects of Village Courts in Bangladesh

B34

Felix Schilling: Authoritarian Political Selection: Ruling Parties and the Rise of Business Elites

Laura Montenbruck: Fiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: A Field Experiment in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Session 2.2: Gender 2

Angelina Nazarova: Education vs Labour: Land Contracts and Gendered Parental Investments in Tajikistan

B41

Pedro Naso: The Economic Benefits of Being a Man: Evidence from Rural Burundi

Awa Diouf: Taxing Mobil money in Kenya: Impacts on financial inclusion

Session 2.3: Education 1

Claire Cullen: Education in Emergencies: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries

B44

Aditya Kumar: Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India

Safoura Moeeni: The Labor Market Returns to Unobserved Skills: Evidence from a Gender Quota

Session 2.4: Agri tech

Tessa Bold: Market access and demand for improved seeds

C32

Leah Bevis: The Green Revolution and Inequality: India

Salvatore Di Falco: Conservation Agriculture and Welfare: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Session 2.5: IPV

Jyotsna Jalan: Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence from India

C34

Eugenia Maria Frezza: Intimate-Partner-Violence and Attitudes in India

Julian Röckert: Extreme Weather Events and Children´s Exposure to Intra-household Violence

11.50

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

Time

Program

Speaker & title

Room

13.00-14.30

Johannes Haushofer: The Shape of Forgetting

Volvosalen

Kalle Hirvonen: Do ultra-poor graduation programs promote resilience against droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia

Invited Speakers Session 2

Francesca Jensenius: Politician Quality in the Developing World: Evidence from Indian Village Councils

SEB-salen

Ludvig Wier: Global profit shifting, 1975-2019

14.30

Break

14.45-16.15

Parallel Session 3

Session 3.1: Agriculture

Mohammad Sepahvand: Agricultural productivity and positive assortative mating: Micro-level evidence from Burkina Faso

B34

Bahre Kiros: Revisiting the weather: the effects of temperature on farm labor market outcomes in Ethiopia

Prakash Veettil: Hypothetical bias and cognitive ability: Farmers’preference for crop insurance products

Session 3.2: Child health

Annika Lindskog: The origins of human capital formation: The long term impact of early life shocks on human capital outcomes in Ethiopia

B41

Pallavi Prabhakar: The Impact of Early Childhood Development Interventions on Children’s Health in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Hardi Ahmed: Women's rights and child health: evidence from a gender-biased reform in Nigeria

Session 3.3: Climate 1

Yonas Alem: The Impact of a Major Climatic Shock on Technology Use: Exploring the Mechanisms

B44

Nicklas Nordfors: Urbanization at risk: urban growth, flood risk and climate variability

Claas Schneiderheinze: Migration Responses to Drought: The Importance of Local Economic Opportunities

Session 3.4: Conflict 2

Gustav Agneman: Conflict Victimization Shapes Norms of Obedience: Evidence From Colombia

C32

Rahul Mehrotra: Irrigating the Killing Fields: Economic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Genocide

Monica Beeder: The effect of a supply shock in the production of cocaine on violence: Evidence from Colombia and Venezuela

Session 3.5: Labour 2

Fjolla Kondirolli: Minimum wages, Earnings and Employment in India

C33

Margherita Tambussi: Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa

Utsa Banerjee: Can Trade Policy Change Gender Equality? Evidence from Chile

16.15

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

16.35-18.05

Session 4.1: Climate 2

Meseret Abebe Drought: Livestock Holding and Milk Production: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

B34

Stein T. Holden: Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?

Gonfa Abraham: Insurance Albeit No Insurance Scheme: Role of Social Capital in Rural Ethiopia

Session 4.2: Education 2

David Contreras: Sibling spillover effects on college admission exams

B41

Paul Brabet: Assessing Competency-Based Pedagogy reforms in French-speaking Africa

Sarah Deschênes: Expanding Access to Schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes

Session 4.3: Finance

Collin Constantine: Fiscal-Oil Dominance and the Finance Resource Curse: The Paradoxes of Plenty and Banking

B44

Fabrizio Santoro: Digital Merchant Payments as a Medium of Tax Compliance

Hailu Adugna Ayano: The rise of Fintech digital financial services: How would it impact income inequality across Countries?

Session 4.4: Firms 1

Hailegebriel Yigezu: Energy Efficiency and Productivity: Pseudo Panel Data Evidence from the Manufacturing Industry in Ethiopia.

C32

Maria Jouste: Tax optimization of small and medium-enterprises in Uganda

Juan Soto-Diaz: Booming Sector, Multinationals, and Local Economic Development

Session 4.5: Measuring prefrences

Olivia Bertelli: Measuring insecurity-related experiences and preferences in a fragile State. A list experiment in Mali

C33

Ann-Kristin Reitmann: Measuring social norms towards women and work in Tunisia – An assessment of the ‘opinion matching’ method

Rahul Lahoti: Does it Matter Who You Ask For Time Use Data?

Session 4.6: Health and Natural Disasters

Dorothee Weiffen: Anticipatory action to mitigate flood distress - a machine learning approach

Volvosalen

Dureja Abhishek: Demand and Supply Side Incentivization and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from India

Steve Berggreen: Waterborne diseases and children's learning

19.30

Dinner

Dinner at Skansen Kronan. 
It is about ten minutes walk from the School, , the last part is very steep though. You can also go to there by car. 
Directions: Here is how you get to Skansen Krona

Skansen Kronan, Skansberget, Leijonsparres Väg 15. Gothenburg.

Time

Program

Speaker & title

Room

9.00-10:30

Parallel Session 5

Session 5.1: Education 3

Katherina Thomas: How to close the skill gap? Parental Background and Children's Skill Development in Indonesia

B34

Weijian (Eddy) Zou: Resource Cursed? The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Coal Mining on Human Capital Accumulation in Indonesia

Olle Hammar: The Global Distribution of Human Capital and Total Wealth

Session 5.2: Environment

Bruno Martorano: Roots of Dissent: The Long-Term Political Legacies of Trade Liberalization in Brazil

B41

Paulo Santos: Income and wildlife hunting in the Anthropocene. Evidence from Cambodia

Subrendu Pattanayak: Open up the black box of community driven water and sanitation

Session 5.3: Health 1

Stefan Sliwa Ruiz: Doctor Turnover and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Exit of Cuban Doctors in Brazil

B44

Roxanne Kovacs: Paying our way to better health? The impact of public spending on health outcomes in Brazil

Damien de Walque: How to encourage service delivery to the poor: Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic incentives, and effort

Session 5.4: Gender 3

Hugues Champeaux: Height, parental investments and marriage payments in sub-Sahara Africa

C32

Jorge Garcia Hombrados: The Economics of Bride Kidnapping: Evidence from Ethiopia

Tanu Gupta: Women's Inheritance Rights and Time Use in India

Session 5.5: Migration

Henrique, Pita Barros: The Power of Dialogue: forced displacement and social integration in Mozambique

E44

Mark Marvin Kadigo: Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

Christian Ambrosius: Deportation Externalities and the Unintended Outcomes of Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Session 5.6: Poverty

Katharina Fietz: Exit patterns of Bolsa Familia and the role of the local labor market in Brazil

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

Sudeshna Maitra: To Draw a Relative-Poverty Line: An Approach using Mixture Models and CART

Arne Nasgowitz: Gender, Norms and Time Poverty in Mexico

10.30

Coffee

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

10.50

E. Somanathan: Access to Clean Cooking: Electric Stoves and Air Pollution in India

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

12.20

Time

Program

Speaker & title

Room

14.00-15.30

Session 6.1: Gender 4

Simon Anne: The Human Capital Impacts of Banning Child Marriage – Evidence from Ethiopia

B34

Albena Sotirova: Child marriage around the world: evidence from repeated cross-sectional data

Lame Ungwang: Nudging technology adoption: Experimental evidence on menstrual cup uptake in Botswana

Session 6.2: Health 2

Celine Zipfel: A Mother’s Voice: Impacts of Communication Training on Child Health Investments

B41

Manuela Fritz: Do loss-framed ads encourage diabetes screening? Evidence from a Facebook diabetes awareness campaign in Indonesia

Giulia Montresor: Involving religious leaders in COVID-19 awareness campaigns: Implications for behavioral change

Session 6.3: Firms 2

Michael Kilumelume: Exploring horizontal FDI spillovers in South Africa’s manufacturing sector: A firm-level study

B44

Mohamed Abouaziza: Cash Constraints and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Dairy Cooperatives in Kenya

Miri Stryjan: Incentives in Microfinance: an experimental evaluation of group versus individual bonuses on staff performance and well-being

Session 6.4: Household

Maria Hernandezde-Benito: This Is a Man’s World: Crime and Intra-Household Resource Allocation

C32

Gidisa Lachisa Tato: The Dynamic Impact of Parental Death on Child Labour: Evidence from Ethiopia

Jingyao Wei: Solar Energy for Poverty Alleviation in China

Session 6.5: Political Economy 2

Emmanuelle Lavallée: Army arrangement? Armed conflict and support for democracy in Mali

E44

Alex Yeandle: Mobile Internet, Local Development and the Quality of Elections: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Michele Valsecchi: Sanctions and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Russia

Session 6.6: Public goods

Anders Fredriksson: Quantifying political effects in the spatial allocation of public services

Volvosalen, House E, floor 4

Juliette Crespin-Boucaud: Ethnic Homogenization and Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya’s land reform program

Selene Ghisolfi: Contribution Requirements and Redistribution Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

15.30

Hyllan, House E, floor 4

15.50-17.20

Session 7.1: Gender 5

Carlotta Nani: Perceived abilities and gender stereotypes within the household. Experimental evidence from Bangladesh.

B34

Dipanwita Ghatak: Social networks and working women: Neighbourhood effects in post-childbirth employment patterns among ethnic minority women in UK

Felix Rusche: Broadcasting Change: Community Radio and Women's Empowerment in India

Session 7.2: Health 3

Henry Cust: Weather Shocks and Transactional Sex

B41

Arpita Khanna: Long run impact of the Bengal famine of 1943: A gender analysis

Yun Xiao: Beyond Boiling: The Effect of In Utero Exposure to Treated Tap Water on Childhood Health

Session 7.3: Household 1

Sally Zhang: Causes and Consequences of Intrahousehold Hidden Income: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

B44

Timothy Kohler: Can Cash Transfers to the Unemployed Support Economic Activity? Evidence from South Africa

Dereje Zegeye: The Impact Rainfall Shock on Child Labor: The Role of PSNP and Market Imperfections

Session 7.4: Inequality 1

Laura Perez-Cervera: Affirming the Racial Divide? The Political Consequences of Affirmative Action in Brazil

C32

Renate Hartwig: Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: Evidence from an Audit Study in Indonesia

Malte Becker: Country, Culture or Competition - What Drives Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Session 7.5: Political Economy 3

Ola Olsson: Historical Pathogen Prevalence and government responses to COVID-19

E44

Roland Hodler: Mining for peace

Jakob Enlund: Electoral Cycles, Foreign Policy, and Conflict Mitigation:Evidence from Contributors to UN Peacekeeping Operations