Name: German Development Economics Conference 2024
Start: 2024-05-23T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-24T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Leibniz Universität Hannover

Monday 20 May 2024
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Thursday 23 May 2024

14:15

14:15 - 15:15
15:15 Conflicts in Agriculture
Conflicts in Agriculture
15:15 - 16:15
Room: B302
Contributions

15:15 Less Conflict During Harvest Season? Analysing the Relationship between Satellite Data on Crop Season and Conflict on the Micro-Level in Rural Kenya - Nicole Karnaus

15:45 Land-use transformation and conflict: The effects of oil palm expansion in Indonesia - Tobias Hellmundt (University of Göttingen)
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
15:15 - 16:15
Room: B305
Contributions

15:15 The dynamics of cattle expansion and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon - Nikolas Kuschnig (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

15:45 Mining for Evidence: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)’s Impact in Africa - Guenther Isabel (ETH Zurich)
Climate Change
Climate Change
15:15 - 16:15
Room: F142
Contributions

15:15 Climate change adaptation: Evidence from an RCT in rural Bangladesh - Alexandra Avdeenko (World Bank, University of Heidelberg) Jakob Jordi Gärtner (Uni Heidelberg)

15:45 Can weather shocks give rise to a poverty trap? Evidence from Nigeria - Giulia Malevolti (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Poverty Measurement
Poverty Measurement
15:15 - 16:15
Room: F342
Contributions

15:15 Stress-testing the international poverty line and the official global poverty statistics - Michail Moatsos (Maastricht University and King's College London)

15:45 Where Is Poverty Concentrated? New Evidence Based on Internationally Consistent Urban and Poverty Measurements - Robin Moellerherm (Heidelberg University)
Female Workers
Female Workers
15:15 - 16:15
Room: F128
Contributions

15:15 Stronger Together: Promoting Export through Female-only SME Consortia - Munch Florian (London School of Economics)

15:45 Information asymmetries and female labour exchange in rural Tanzania - Christelle Dumas (University of Fribourg)
Health Outcomes
Health Outcomes
15:15 - 16:15
Room: F107
Contributions

15:15 Interplay of Financial Mechanisms and Agricultural Price Volatility: Implications for Child Health in Rural India - Dimitrios Argyros (University College Dublin)

15:45 Weather shocks, recall error and health - Julian Wichert (Leibniz University Hannover)
15:15 - 16:15
Contributions

15:15 ____________
16:30

16:30 - 18:00

18:15

18:15 - 19:00

19:00

19:00 - 21:00
Friday 24 May 2024
09:00 Conflicts and Peace Building
Conflicts and Peace Building
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B302
Contributions

09:00 Can International Initiatives Promote Peace? Diamond Certification and Armed Conflicts in Africa - Andreas Link (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

09:30 Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict - Paul Schaudt (University of St.Gallen)

10:00 Conflict, Trust and Political Preferences - Anna Minasyan (University of Groningen)
Social Networks
Social Networks
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B305
Contributions

09:00 Disconnecting Dissent: The Effect of Internet Shutdowns on Protests - Thomas Schiller

09:30 Combating Fake News in Health: An online Survey - Maximilian Guigas (BNITM)

10:00 Rural Internet and Religious Identities - Johannes Matzat (University of Lucerne & Hebrew University)
Public Interventions
Public Interventions
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F142
Contributions

09:00 Improving Citizens’ Acceptance for Carbon Taxes in China - Yuanwei Xu (Ruhr University Bochum)

09:30 Fiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: Strengthening the Social Contract Under Low State Capacity - Laura Montenbruck (GNOI)

10:00 ____________
Commons in Agriculture
Commons in Agriculture
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F342
Contributions

09:00 Large-Scale Irrigation and Commercialization of Agriculture in South Africa - Tereza Varejkova (University of Maryland, College Park)

09:30 Small-scale farmers’ willingness to pay for information: A comparison of individual purchase decisions with contributions to a club good - Michael Grimm (University of Passau)

10:00 ____________
Migration
Migration
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F128
Contributions

09:00 Cultural Similarity and Migration: New evidence from a gravity model of migration - Tobias Grohmann (University of Groningen)

09:30 Is intent to migrate irregularly responsive to recent German policy adjustments? - Maximiliane Sievert (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)

10:00 ____________
Social Policies
Social Policies
09:00 - 10:30
Room: F107
Contributions

09:00 Delivering primary care to the homeless - Evidence from Brazil - Malte Becker

09:30 The impact of social health protection on migration: Evidence from Pakistan - Andreas Landmann (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

10:00 The effects of social pensions on monetary and time transfers among the poor: Evidence from Peru - Javier Olivera (NBB, PUCP, LISER)
Research Methods
Research Methods
09:00 - 10:30
Room: A320
Contributions

09:00 A slippery slope: topographic variation as an instrumental variable - Nils Haveresch (RWI-Leibniz Institute of Economic Research, Essen)

09:30 Lost in the Design Space? Construct Validity in the Microfinance Literature - Christina Petrik (Universität Passau)

10:00 Mapping changes in urban informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa from 2016 to 2022 - Nicolas Büttner (ETH Zurich)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Post-conflict Environments
Post-conflict Environments
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B302
Contributions

11:00 Peace Dividends: The Economic Effects of Colombia's Peace Agreement - Miguel Fajardo-Steinhäuser (London School of Economics)

11:30 Unintended Consequences of UN Reports: Evidence from a Post-Conflict Context - Marcela Ibáñez (University of Zurich)

12:00 ____________
Politicians
Politicians
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B305
Contributions

11:00 Job Loss and Political Entry - Laura Barros (University of Göttingen)

11:30 Social networks, local elections, and female representation: Evidence from Nepali voter registration data - Simon Heß

12:00 Norms of Corruption in Politicians’ Malfeasance - Anke Kessler (Simon Fraser University)
Micro-entrepreneurs
Micro-entrepreneurs
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F142
Contributions

11:00 Light touch, lean tally: impacts of a MSME support programme in Côte d'Ivoire - Tabea Lakemann (German Institute for Global and Area Studies, University of Goettingen)

11:30 Gendered Access to Finance: The Role of Team Formation, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations - Kristina Czura (University of Groningen)

12:00 Scaling up financial education among micro-entrepreneurs. Evidence from a randomized saturation experiment - Lukas Menkhoff
Firms
Firms
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F342
Contributions

11:00 ICTs’ adoption and informal firms performance in Africa - Magloire SESHIE (Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (Morroco) & Université Clermont Auvergne (France))

11:30 Bargaining Over Taxes: Evidence from Zambian firms - Daniel Overbeck (University of Mannheim)

12:00 Carbon taxation in emerging economies - Johannes Gallé (MCC Berlin)
Structural Change
Structural Change
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F128
Contributions

11:00 The Bankruptcy Express: Market Integration and Labor Reallocation in Industrializing Britain - Tobias Korn (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

11:30 Colonial (Dis)Integration: Concession Companies and Human Development in Mozambique - Orlando Roman (Geneva Graduate Institute)

12:00 The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution - Cara Ebert (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)
Education
Education
11:00 - 12:30
Room: F107
Contributions

11:00 Learning together: Experimental evidence on parental involvement in education in Uganda - Arne Nasgowitz (Center for Applied Research at NHH (SNF))

11:30 Evaluating the Effect of School Kits on Child Labour: Experimental Evidence from Ghana’s Cocoa Communities - Erwin Lefoll (ETH Zurich)

12:00 Is Patience Malleable via Educational Intervention? Evidence on the Role of Age in Field Experiments - Tim Kaiser (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) & IZA)
International Trade
International Trade
11:00 - 12:30
Room: A320
Contributions

11:00 Regional Market Integration and Household Welfare: Spatial Evidence from the East African Community - Frederik Wild (University of Bayreuth)

11:30 Industrial policy and input market access: Evidence from Nigerian fertiliser - Ricardo Guzman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

12:00 What Role for Aid for Trade in (Deep) PTA Relations? - Tim Vogel (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

13:30

13:30 - 15:00
15:00 Race, Religion and Identity
Race, Religion and Identity
15:00 - 16:30
Room: B302
Contributions

15:00 Racial Peer Effects at Work: Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil - Katharina Fietz (GIGA | University of Göttingen)

15:30 Natural Disasters and Sharia Laws - Fabian Haas (Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg)

16:00 Teachers’ caste bias affects students’ mental health and aspirations in Bihar, India - Ritwik Banerjee (IIM Bangalore)
Democratic Institutions
Democratic Institutions
15:00 - 16:30
Room: B305
Contributions

15:00 Dominance and Dissent: Party Influence and Social Unrest in South Africa - Sebastian Jävervall (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)

15:30 Access to Primary Care and Voting Outcomes: Evidence from healthcare expansion in Brazil - Stefan Sliwa Ruiz (University of Groningen)

16:00 Does Development Contribute to Democracy? Microeconomic Evidence from Severe Climate Events - Matthias Schündeln (GNOI)
Youth Career Interventions
Youth Career Interventions
15:00 - 16:30
Room: F142
Contributions

15:00 Unlocking young women's minds? The impact of a low-cost career guidance program - Ankush Asri (Radboud University)

15:30 Expanding Horizons: A Randomized-Controlled Trial on Adolescents’ Career Information Uptake - Claudia Schupp (UWVL)

16:00 Better programs, better jobs? Evaluating a skills-training program for disadvantaged young women in Ghana - Sarah Frohnweiler (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)
Resilience and Adaptation
Resilience and Adaptation
15:00 - 16:30
Room: F342
Contributions

15:00 Resilience to shocks and poverty in developing countries: Empirical evidence from rural households in Southeast Asia - Manh Hung Do (Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Leibniz University Hannover)

15:30 Climate-Induced Extreme Weather Events: Can Rural Households Recover? Evidence from India - Remya Tressa Jacob

16:00 Weather shocks, migration, and in-place adaptation - Marco Alfano (Lancaster University)
Labor Markets
Labor Markets
15:00 - 16:30
Room: F128
Contributions

15:00 Job Loss and the Distributional Effects of Self-Employment Spells - Fabiano Dal-Ri (Cornell University)

15:30 Regulating Manufacturing FDI: Local Labor Market Responses to a Protectionist Policy in Indonesia - Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)

16:00 The Impact of Flash Floods on the Spatial Distribution of Businesses and Workers - Philipp Ehrl (Getulio Vargas Foundation)
Healthcare Utilization
Healthcare Utilization
15:00 - 16:30
Room: F107
Contributions

15:00 Impacts of Public Insurance on Health Access and Outcomes - Evidence from India - Titir Bhattacharya (University of Warwick)

15:30 Health Insurance Preferences for Outpatient Care – A Discrete Choice Experiment in Pakistan - Alina Imping (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)

16:00 Self-medication under Uncertainty: Insights on Consumer Behavior and Drug Quality in Burkina Faso - Lena Merkel (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM))
Connectivity
Connectivity
15:00 - 16:30
Room: A320
Contributions

15:00 Bridging Seasonal Disconnectivity in Rural Rwanda: Economic and Environmental Impacts of Trailbridges - Cannon Cloud (Goethe Univeristy Frankfurt)

15:30 Market Day Coordination, Market Size, and Rural Development - Moritz Poll (Brown University)

16:00 Subways or Minibuses? Privatized Provision of Public Transit - Lucas Conwell (University College London)
16:30 Coffee
Coffee
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Regional Favoritism
Regional Favoritism
17:00 - 18:00
Room: B302
Contributions

17:00 Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism - Lennart Kaplan (GAU)

17:30 Political Favoritism and internal migration in Benin - Alexander Stöcker (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))
Foreign Aid
Foreign Aid
17:00 - 18:00
Room: B305
Contributions

17:00 Regional Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative - Alexander Bareis (Universität Siegen)

17:30 Aid Allocation and Deportation Enforcement - Christian Ambrosius (GNOI)
Energy Use
Energy Use
17:00 - 18:00
Room: F142
Contributions

17:00 Lost in transition – The decline of LPG usage and the charcoal renaissance in urban Senegal - Julian Rose (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research)

17:30 Saving lives with cooking gas? Unintended effects of targeted LPG subsidies in Peru - Thomas THIVILLON (Bordeaux School of Economics, University of Bordeaux)
Shock-coping Strategies
Shock-coping Strategies
17:00 - 18:00
Room: F342
Contributions

17:00 Shouldering the Weight of Climate Change: Intra-household Resource Allocation after Rainfall Shocks - Ulugbek Aminjonov (Bordeaux School of Economics)

17:30 Solar technology as a shock-coping device: Evidence from rural Tanzania - Friederike Lenel (PIK; Uni Göttingen)
Gender Norms
Gender Norms
17:00 - 18:00
Room: F128
Contributions

17:00 Does gender equality in labor participation bring real equality? Evidence from developing and developed countries - Michele Fabiani (University of Macerata)

17:30 How do harmful social norms interact? Evidence from the Revised Family Code in Ethiopia - Anne Simon (Leibniz-University Hannover)
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 ____________
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 ____________
18:00

18:00 - 18:30

18:30 Dinner (at own expense)
Dinner (at own expense)
18:30 - 20:00