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Presentations - NCDE2018
Presentation slides from the NCDE2018 conference.
Keynote 1
| Ravi Kanbur | Bretton Woods and World Bank at 75 |
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1.1 Gender
| Luke Chicoine | Free primary education, fertility, and women's access to the labor market: evidence from Ethiopia |
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| Sarah Deschênes | Assessing the effects of education on women’s wellbeing in Western Africa: evidence from a new method |
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| Edgar Salgado | Female genital cutting and education: theory and causal evidence from Senegal |
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1.2 Aid interventions
| Javier Abellán Sánchez | The impact of foreign aid on access to water and sanitation: a perspective from the demand |
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| Ines Afonso Roque Ferreira | Handle with care: Is foreign aid less effective in fragile states? |
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| Melinda Vigh | The complementarity of community-based water and sanitation interventions: evidence from Mozambique |
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1.3 Schooing I
| Kasper Brandt | An improved value-added model: private versus public schools |
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| Caroline Schimanski | Race based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago |
1.4 Political economy
| Miguel Niño-Zarazúa | Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural Mexico: The case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme |
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| Juan Sebastian Morales | Jam-barrel politics: road building and legislative voting in Colombia |
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| Jahen Rezki | Call your leader: Does the mobile phone affect policymaking? |
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2.1 Poverty and inequality
| Carlos Gradín | Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: an application to Mozambique |
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| Maria Jouste | A role for universal pension? Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa |
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2.2 Environmental economics
| Fenella Carpena | The adverse effects of electrification: evidence from India |
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| Souvik Datta | Centimeters and kilograms lost to smoke: household air pollution, stunting and wasting in Indian children |
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| Peter Fisker | Predicted greenness: refining the econometrics of global drought measurement |
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2.3 Health I
| Britta Augsburg | Are households credit constrained for sanitation? Experimental evidence from India |
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| Susmita Baulia | Household shocks and preventive healthcare for children: evidence from Ugandan panel survey |
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| Willa Friedman | What can we learn from babies born during health-worker strikes? |
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2.4 Preferences
| Stein Holden | Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related? |
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| Smriti Sharma | Social identity, behavior, and personality: evidence from India |
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| Joseph Vecci | Stability of preferences and personality: new evidence from developing and developed countries |
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3.1 Firms
| Sameer Ahmad Azizi | Mapping the technological capabilities of Kenyan-owned floriculture firms |
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| Hanna Berkel | The costs and benefits of formalization for Mozambican enterprises |
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| Rute Martins Caeiro | Agricultural innovations and social networks in Guinea-Bissau |
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| Milenko Fadic | The effects of demand shocks on the growth of small firms |
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3.2 Global economy
| Janne Niemi | Trade liberalisation, institutions and persistent habits – a CGE model analysis for developing countries |
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| Mika Nieminen | Patterns of international capital flows and their implications for developing countries |
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| Stefan Pahl | Do global value chains enhance economic upgrading? A long view |
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| Lindsay Whitfield | Conceptualizing and measuring technological capabilities within global value chains: African owned firms in floriculture and apparel export sectors |
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3.3 Mobility
| Kashi Kafle | Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Tharcisio Leone | The Geography of intergenerational mobility: evidence of educational persistence in Brazil |
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| Tseday Mekasha | Land Tenure Security and Internal Migration in Tanzania |
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| Jakob Schwab | Accounting for Intergenerational social mobility in low and middle-income countries: evidence from the poorest in Ethiopia, Peru, and Viet Nam |
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3.4 Discrimination
| Subha Mani | Discrimination at the extensive and intensive margin |
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| Andy McKay | Gender gaps in work outcomes after 19 years: analysis based on the Kagera Panel 1991-2010 |
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| Jordan Loper | Traditional norms, access to divorce and women’s empowerment: evidence from Indonesia |
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