WIDER Seminar Series

© UNU-WIDER The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. It provides a forum for for visiting scholars, UNU-WIDER researchers, external researchers, policymakers and industry specialists to present their research.

In addition to providing a forum for both academic debate and training, the series presents an opportunity for policymakers and others interested in development to learn about the latest research methods and findings.

2024

The WIDER Seminar Series takes place Wednesdays 15:00–16:00. From the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, the time is Helsinki time (UTC+3) due to daylight saving time. Outside of this period, it is Helsinki time (UTC+2). The event is held via Zoom. Register for specific events to receive a link to the Zoom for the seminar.

06 November	Matias Giaccobasso How do top earners respond to taxation? Evidence from a tax reform in Uruguay
30 October	Marco Sanfilippo Government demand and firm growth
18 September	Ben d’Exelle Climate change, intimate partner violence and fertility
05 September	Gabriel Zucman Taxing capital in a globalized world: the effects of automatic information exchange
12 June	Julien Wolfersberger Climate immobility in sub-Saharan Africa
04 June	Alexandra Hartmann Empowerment on the move? An experiment in supporting forcibly displaced people in Greece
22 May	Nagesh Kumar Manufacturing and India’s green transition: challenges, opportunities and policies
30 April	Bruno Martorano Social movements and preferences for redistribution
11 April	Nicole J. Hassoun Measuring population health: avoiding discrimination
20 March	Andrea Vaccaro Past stateness, present fragility: how (the lack of) state experience shapes today’s fragile states

29 November	Nadine Riedel How effective are countermeasures against multinational tax avoidance – new evidence from South Africa
15 November	Gabriela Zapata Román The motherhood effect on women's labour trajectories: Preliminary results
25 October	Stefan Leeffers It will rain: the effect of information on flood preparedness in urban Mozambique
19 October *This is a Thursday.	Iván Torre Educational mobility in Europe and Central Asia
20 September	Paulo Santos Paddy and prejudice: evidence on the agricultural origins of prejudice from China and 12 other Asian societies
13 September	Saumik Paul Construction productivity and relative prosperity
14 June	Sefa Kwami Awaworyi Churchill Temperature, climate change and household financial behaviour: evidence from Vietnam Michael Palmer Can information improve the uptake of disability benefits? Experimental evidence from Vietnam
08 June	Yusi Ouyang Fighting poverty to promote growth
07 June	William Ferguson A theory of triadic power with applications to leadership, collective action, and institutional evolution
31 May	Yselle Flora Malah Kuete Does structural change benefit women? Firm-level evidence from the services sector in Cameroon
24 May	Odd-Helge Fjeldstad Incentivizing customers to increase VAT compliance: Evidence from Tanzania
10 May	Sonia Bhalotra Job displacement, unemployment benefits and domestic violence
12 April	Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos The unequal effect of pollution exposure on labour supply across gender
29 March	Quentin Stoeffler Economic opportunities, education and child labor: the effects of artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso
15 March	Céline Zipfel A mother’s voice: Impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments
01 March	Henrique Pita Barros The power of dialogue: Evidence from a field experiment in Mozambique
08 February	Marinella Leone What drives parental investments in early childhood? Experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

14 December	Andreas de Barros Large-scale efforts to improve teaching and child learning: Experimental evidence from India
07 December	Sandra Sequeira The economics of displacement: Evidence from Mozambique
30 November	Xiaobing Wang Towards common prosperity in China
23 November	Eleonora Nillesen Breaking down menstrual barriers in Bangladesh: Cluster RCT evidence on school attendance and psychosocial outcomes of adolescent girls
16 November	Albert Kwame Osei-Owusu Assessing Africa’s position and prospects in global dematerialization
02 November	Ciprian Domnisoru The impact of female teachers on female students' lifetime well-being
26 October	Giulia Mascagni Tax compliance in Rwanda: Evidence from two large scale field experiments
25 October *This event will occur on a Tuesday.	Arjan Verschoor Boosting recycling behaviour among urban households in Peru: a field experiment on the role of social norms and beliefs
12 October	Gindo Tampubolon Social injustice under climate shocks to persons with disability
21 September	Christine Valente Subjective expectations and demand for contraception
20 September *This event will occur on a Tuesday.	Nauro Ferreira Campos The Political U: New evidence on democracy and income
07 September	Gabriela Zapata The role of the family of origin in shaping inequality of opportunity in Chile (period 2006-2017)
31 August	Vanessa Carrión-Yaguana Labor regulations and formal employment: Evidence from Ecuadorian firms in the Galapagos Islands
24 August	Arnab K. Basu Differential health reporting error amongst older adults in India
17 August	Nancy Chau On the push and pull forces of migrant border crossing: The role of family networks
22 June	Miri Stryjan Loan repayment flexibility and firm profits: Experimental evidence from Uganda
17 June \| 16:00-17:00 *This event will occur on a Friday.	Leonard Wantchekon Externalities of colonial schools and social mobility: Evidence from Africa
08 June	Jari Eloranta Beyond guns and butter: Finnish Central Government spending patterns in the 20th Century
11 May	Mark Gradstein Soft skills, parenting styles, and persistent income inequality
04 May	Saher Asad Impact of improving communication networks on women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment: Evidence from randomized experiment in Pakistan
27 April	Jacqueline Mosomi Working from home and physical proximity during COVID-19 lockdowns: implications for gender inequality in the South African labour market
20 April	Pablo Warnes Transport infrastructure improvements and spatial sorting: evidence from Buenos Aires
06 April	Macartan Humphreys Three facets of political inequality: evidence from consultative processes in Kampala
30 March	Tilman Brück The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual behaviour and welfare
23 March	Michele di Maio Firms amid conflict: performance, production inputs, and market competition
09 March	Gaaitzen de Vries Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?
02 March	Matti Mitrunen Famine, inequality, and conflict

24 November	Petros Sekeris A Theoretical Foundation of the Modernization Hypothesis
17 November	Alexander Pick, OECD Development Centre From protest to progress? Why addressing global discontent is essential to building back better from the COVID-19 pandemic
9 November	Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University The political economy consequences of China’s export slowdown
27 October	Claudio Ferraz, Vancouver School of Economics agrarian elites, education, and long-term development
20 October	Omar McDoom, London School of Economics Re-visiting the Rwandan Genocide: New Book Presentation
13 October	Jann Lay, GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies Taking stock of the global land rush: Few development benefits, many human and environmental risks (Land Matrix Analytical Report III)
21 September	Smriti Sharma, Newcastle University and Saurabh Singhal, Lancaster University Management School Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation
15 September	Mazhar Waseem Long-run impacts of in-utero Ramadan exposure: evidence from administrative tax records

22 January	Bereket Kebede, School of International Development Endowment Effects and Gender in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation
23 January	Neil Ruiz, Pew Research Center Demographic Trends and Attitudes towards Migration Globally
29 January	Emma Nkonoki, Fingo Inclusive innovation ecosystems - why we need NGOs to ensure that 'no one is left behind'
05 February	Sushanta Mallick, Queen Mary University Is financial inclusion good for banks?
12 February	Saurabh Singhal, Lancaster University Inequality, corruption and cooperation
27 February	Markus Jäntti, Stockholm University Income distribution in Uganda – a tax register-based assessment
04 March	Osman Ouattara, University of Manchester Temperature shocks and Inflation: are there any ramifications?
11 March	Marijke Verpoorten, University of Antwerp Would you fight? We asked aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo
12 March	Jeffrey Hammer, Princeton University One hundred homes - a visual survey of wealth and poverty in India
18 March	Marcela Ibanez, University of Göttingen The intrinsic value of decision making: Evidence from a bargaining experiment in Egypt
20 April	Rajeev Goel, Illinois State University Corruption beyond the glass ceiling: do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?
29 April	Andrea Vaccaro \| UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Comparing cross-national measures of state capacity
28 May	Rajesh Raj Seethamma Natarajan, UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholar Are informal jobs the pathway to formal jobs? Evidence from India
10 June	Svetlana Ledyaeva, Aalto University Trade diversion effects of China’s VAT export rebates
22 & 24 June	WIDER PHD Fellows - Distance programme

23 January	Maurizio Bussolo, World Bank Towards a new social contract – taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia
06 February	Costanza Biavaschi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Taking the skill bias out of global migration
20 February	Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University, India Choice, constraints and cultural norms: understanding factors underlying women's labour force participation
27 February	Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University Decentralized targeting of agricultural credit in West Bengal: private vs. political intermediaries
13 March	Michael Woolcock, World Bank Lant Pritchett, Harvard University Building state capability: evidence, analysis, action
20 March	Margaret McMillan, Tufts University Structural change and labor productivity in sub-Saharan Africa
22 March	James Robinson, University of Chicago Business and fragility in Africa – solution or problem?
27 March	Sandra Halvorsen, PhD candidate at the Norwegian School of Economics Factory employment and fertility decisions: Field experimental evidence from Ethiopia
03 April	Vegard Iversen, The University of Manchester Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: theory and suggestive evidence from India
10 April	Maureen Were, UNU-WIDER Is export-led growth a mirage? The case of Kenya
17 April	Saidou Abdoulaye Sy, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Measuring energy poverty in Senegal: A new multidimensional energy poverty index focusing on fuzzy sets approach
17 April	Opeyemi Akinyemi, Covenant University, Nigeria Green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa
08 May	Aimable Nsabimana, University of Rwanda Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
10 May	Ritwik Banerjee, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore The link between corruption and tax evasion - an experimental investigation
15 May	Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ahmed, University of Khartoum Understanding inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan
22 May	Vito Peragine, University of Bari Measuring inequality of opportunity: recent empirical findings and some new theoretical results
29 May	Khoa Vu, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow The causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
04 June	Patricia Funjika, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Colonial Origin, Ethnicity and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
04 June	Shreshti Rawat, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications
12 June	Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa
19 June	Charles Gore, UNU-WIDER Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10
26 June	Sanjay Reddy, recent member of the Independent High-level Team of Advisers to ECOSOC The UN’s Development Function: Time for Renewal

28 August	Olivier Bargain, University of Bordeaux Intra-household allocation and individual poverty
18 September	Simone Bertoli, CERDI University of Auvergne Co-residence patterns of the individuals left behind by the migrants and their analytical implications: evidence from Mexico
23 September	Jambo Hamisi Ramadhani, UONGOZI Institute Enhancing socio-economic benefits of the mining industry in Tanzania: ten key priorities
25 September	François Roubaud, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation) The informal economy in developing countries: measurement issues and economic challenges
09 October	Mazhar Waseem, University of Manchester Pecuniary and non-pecuniary motivations for tax compliance: evidence from Pakistan
10 October	Inmaculada Martinez Zarzoso, University of Göttingen Gender gap and firm performance in developing countries
16 October	Jakob Svensson, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University The low quality trap: evidence from the market for maize in Uganda
23 October	Oded Stark, Universities of Bonn and Warsaw Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
28 October	Rekha Ravindran, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow The relationship between structural transformation and income inequality in developing economies Thanh Bui, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow The intergenerational persistence of human capital in Vietnam
06 November	Mehwish Ghulan Ali, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Do son preferences cause a gap between desired and actual fertility in Pakistan? Rugazia Nyombi, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Rural economy diversification and its effects on food security of households in Tanzania Alysson Portella, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Racial social norms and education: “whitening” ideology and students’ performance in Brazil
08 November	Ravi Pendakur, University of Ottawa The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities
13 November	Stephane Straub, Toulouse School of Economics Voting corrupt politicians out of office? Evidence from a survey experiment in Paraguay
20 November	WeiWei Chen, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow The political economy of Chinese private investment in Ethiopia: a case study of Eastern Industry Park Joshua Magero Otieno, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Ethnicity, politics and wellbeing in Kenya
04 December	Fantu Cheru, School of International Service, American University and Christopher Cramer, SOAS, University of London The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian economy
11 December	Mariapia Mendola, University of Milano-Bicocca Agricultural transformation and farmers' expectations
18 December	Erwin Bulte, Wageningen University Participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoods

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