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Programme - NCDE2018

Programme for the 2018 Nordic conference on development economics. Last updated 7 June 2018.

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Monday 11 June

TIME	ROOM 1	ROOM 2	ROOM 3	ROOM 4
08:15-09:00	Registration \| Entrance hall, 1st floor
09:00-10:30	Opening, welcome and keynote 1 Chair: Finn Tarp Opening and welcome: Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER Keynote 1: Bretton Woods and World Bank at seventy-five by Ravi Kanbur
10:30-11:00	Coffee \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd floor
11:00-12:30	Parallel 1.1 Gender Chair: Edgar Salgado Luke Chicoine, Bates College Free primary education, fertility, and women's access to the labor market: evidence from Ethiopia Sarah Deschênes, Paris School of Economics Assessing the effects of education on women’s wellbeing in Western Africa: evidence from a new method Edgar Salgado, University of Sussex Female genital cutting and education: theory and causal evidence from Senegal	Parallel 1.2 Aid interventions Chair: Melinda Vigh Javier Abellán Sánchez, Complutense University of Madrid The impact of foreign aid on access to water and sanitation: a perspective from the demand Ines Afonso Roque Ferreira, University of East Anglia Handle with care: Is foreign aid less effective in fragile states? Melinda Vigh, Vrije University Amsterdam The complementarity of community-based water and sanitation interventions: evidence from Mozambique	Parallel 1.3 Schooling I Chair: Caroline Schimanski Kasper Brandt, University of Copenhagen An improved value-added model: private versus public schools Caroline Schimanski, UNU-WIDER Race based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago	Parallel 1.4 Political economy Chair: Jahen Rezki Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, UNU-WIDER Campaign externalities, programmatic spending, and voting preferences in rural Mexico: The case of Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programme Juan Sebastian Morales, Collegio Carlo Alberto Jam-barrel politics: road building and legislative voting in Colombia Jahen Rezki, University of York Call your leader: Does the mobile phone affect policymaking?
12:30-13:30	Lunch \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd floor
13:30-15:00	Parallel 2.1 Poverty and Inequality Chair: Maria Jouste Carlos Gradín, UNU-WIDER Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: an application to Mozambique Maria Jouste, University of Turku A role for universal pension? Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa	Parallel 2.2 Environmental economics Chair: Peter Fisker Fenella Carpena, Oslo Business School The adverse effects of electrification: evidence from India Souvik Datta, University of Glasgow Centimeters and kilograms lost to smoke: household air pollution, stunting and wasting in Indian children Peter Fisker, University of Copenhagen Predicted greenness: refining the econometrics of global drought measurement	Parallel 2.3 Health I Chair: Willa Friedman Britta Augsburg, Institute for Fiscal Studies Are households credit constrained for sanitation? Experimental evidence from India Susmita Baulia, University of Turku Household shocks and preventive healthcare for children: evidence from Ugandan panel survey Willa Friedman, University of Houston What can we learn from babies born during health-worker strikes?	Parallel 2.4 Preferences Chair: Joseph Vecci Stein Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related? Smriti Sharma, UNU-WIDER Social identity, behavior, and personality: evidence from India Joseph Vecci, University of Gothenburg Stability of preferences and personality: new evidence from developing and developed countries
15:00-15:30	Coffee \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd fl oor
15:30-17:30	Parallel 3.1 Firms Chair: Milenko Fadic Sameer Ahmad Azizi, Roskilde University Mapping the technological capabilities of Kenyan-owned floriculture firms Hanna Berkel, University of Copenhagen The costs and benefits of formalization for Mozambican enterprises Rute Martins Caeiro, Nova School of Business and Economics Agricultural innovations and social networks in Guinea-Bissau Milenko Fadic, OECD The eﬀects of demand shocks on the growth of small firms	Parallel 3.2 Global economy Chair: Lindsay Whitfield Janne Niemi, VATT Institute for Economic Research Trade liberalisation, institutions and persistent habits – a CGE model analysis for developing countries Mika Nieminen, University of Jyväskylä Patterns of international capital flows and their implications for developing countries Stefan Pahl, University of Groningen Do global value chains enhance economic upgrading? A long view Lindsay Whitfield, Roskilde University Conceptualizing and measuring technological capabilities within global value chains: African owned firms in floriculture and apparel export sectors	Parallel 3.3 Mobility Chair: Jakob Schwab Kashi Kafle, International Fund for Agricultural Development Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Tharcisio Leone, Free University of Berlin The Geography of intergenerational mobility: evidence of educational persistence in Brazil Tseday Mekasha, Copenhagen University Land Tenure Security and Internal Migration in Tanzania Jakob Schwab, German Development Institute Accounting for Intergenerational social mobility in low and middle-income countries: evidence from the poorest in Ethiopia, Peru, and Viet Nam	Parallel 3.4 Discrimination Chair: Jordan Loper Subha Mani, Fordham University Discrimination at the extensive and intensive margin Andy McKay, University of Sussex Gender gaps in work outcomes after 19 years: analysis based on the Kagera Panel 1991-2010 Jordan Loper, Aix-Marseille School of Economics Traditional norms, access to divorce and women’s empowerment: evidence from Indonesia
19:00	Conference dinner \| UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki

Tuesday 12 June

TIME	ROOM 1	ROOM 2	ROOM 3	ROOM 4
09:00-09:15	Registration \| Entrance hall, 1st floor
09:15-10:30	Keynote 2: Women legislators by Sonia Bhalotra Chair: Pertti Haaparanta
10:30-11:00	Coffee \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd floor
11:00-12:30	Parallel 4.1 Conflicts Chair: Helge Zille Michael Mbate, London School of Economics and Political Science The distortionary effects of partisanship on Political Corruption and Accountability: Evidence from Kenya Anna Minasyan, University of Groningen The role of conflict in sex discrimination: the case of missing girls Helge Zille, UNU-WIDER How does conflict affect trade? Measuring the effect of interstate violent conflict on third-country trade in a triadic country setting	Parallel 4.2 Poverty and labour markets Chair: Tillmann von Carnap Julius Ohrnberger, University of Manchester Heterogeneous effects of poverty alleviation programs on mental health: a case study of Malawi Jukka Pirttilä, University of Tampere The elasticity of formal work in African countries Tillmann von Carnap, University of Stockholm Urban proximity as a determinant of rural self-employment profitability: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania	Parallel 4.3 Food security Chair: Robert Rudolf Yaya Saidou Jallow, University of Leicester Does a mother’s exposure to drought in utero increase the resistance of her offspring to in utero shocks? Robert Rudolf, Korea University The Impact of food price shocks on food security: panel evidence from Tanzania	Parallel 4.4 UNICEF Invited session Chair: Vincenzo Salvucci Daniela Gregr, Unicef Mozambique Linking child poverty and vulnerability mapping for risk-informed development programming in Mauritania Vincenzo Salvucci, Unicef Mozambique Multidimensional poverty of children in Mozambique
12:30-13:30	Lunch \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd floor
13:30-15:00	Parallel 5.1 Social protection Chair: Ervin Prifti Kyle McNabb, UNU-WIDER Assessing social protection in Zambia: a tax-benefit microsimulation approach Milla Nyyssölä, Aalto University The Impact of conditional cash transfers on vulnerability to extreme poverty: evidence from Progresa Ervin Prifti, FAO Causal pathways of the productive impacts of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Lesotho	Parallel 5.2 Gender and affirmative action Chair: Jordan Loper Saher Asad, Lahore University of Management Sciences Mystery of the evil digits: impact of reliable communication network on women’s economic participation in Pakistan Arpita Bhattacharjee, University of Leeds Cast into Castes? Targeting caste-based inequalities with affirmative action Jordan Loper, Aix-Marseille School of Economics Traditional norms, access to divorce and women's empowerment: evidence from Indonesia	Parallel 5.3 Schooling II Chair: Virgi Sari Esther Delesalle, University of Cergy-Pontoise Good or bad timing? The pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical effects of shocks on education investment and on schooling performance Pertti Haaparanta, Aalto University Promoting Education under distortionary taxation: A comparison between equality of opportunity and welfarism Virgi Sari, University of Manchester Education assistance and quality in Indonesia: the role of decentralization	Parallel 5.4 Donors Chair: Felipe Starosta de Waldemar Canh Thien Dang, University of Nottingham What motivates NGOs to diversify? Risk reduction or private gain? Pascal Jaupart, University of Oxford Aid & oil: measuring the impact of natural resources on Chinese official finance inflows using giant oil and gas discoveries Felipe Starosta de Waldemar, University of Paris 11 Paris South Donor national interests or recipient needs? Evidence from EU multinational tender procedures on foreign aid
15:00-15:30	Coffee \| Nokia hall lounge, 2nd fl oor
15:30-17:00	Parallel 6.1 Health II Chair: Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi Carla Canelas, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne HIV/AIDS vulnerability and labour migration in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi, University of Manchester Terrorist violence and newborn health. Estimates for Colombia	Parallel 6.2 Employment and enterprises Chair: Helke Seitz Sandra Kristine Halvorsen, Chr. Michelsen Institute The short-term impacts of factory employment on the fertility choices of married women: evidence from Ethiopia using a randomized controlled trial Ayu Pratiwi, Turku University of Applied Sciences Does training location matter? Evidence from a randomized field experiment in Rural Indonesia Helke Seitz, German Institute for Economic Research Constraints to capital accumulation: evidence based on micro and small enterprises	Parallel 6.3 Human capital Chair: Sofia Trommlerova Saurabh Singhal, UNU-WIDER The Long-term effects of delayed school-going age: evidence from Indonesia Neda Trifkovic, University of Copenhagen Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children Sofia Trommlerova, International Institute of Social Studies The effect of compulsory schooling expansion on mothers’ attitudes towards domestic violence in Turkey	Parallel 6.4 Politics Chair: Lim Jia De Gedeon Subhasish Dey, University of York Do political parties practise partisan alignment in social welfare spending? Evidence from village council elections in India Souvik Dutta, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Political economy of third party interventions Lim Jia De Gedeon, Boston University Village strongmen and state capacity: the persistence of Indonesia’s tanah bengkok

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