Wageningen University
Development Economics Group
When
11–12 May 2017
Where
Leeuwenborch building, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen
2 days 10 papers 3 early-research talks
The eighth edition returned to Wageningen’s Leeuwenborch building with ten papers over two days. Topics ran from the success and failure of new stock markets and cooperation in polygynous households to entrepreneurship edutainment in Egypt, sub-national inequality, financial development and industrial pollution, information on polls in South Africa, savings groups for people with disabilities in Uganda, payments for ecosystem services and financial diaries.
A session of early results from the DFID research programme covered imported inputs and product innovation, mobile money for small businesses in Kenya and the aspirations of small retailers in Jakarta.
The workshop was co-sponsored by Tilburg University (Department of Economics), Wageningen University (Development Economics Group), the University of Lucerne and the DFID research programme on innovation and growth in low-income countries.
Programme
Thursday 11 May
- Thorsten Beck Nascent Markets: Understanding the Success and Failure of New Stock Markets Discussant: Manuel Oechslin
- Abigail Barr Cooperation in Polygynous Households Discussant: Matthias Rieger
- Bilal Zia Measuring the Unmeasured: Combining Technology with Survey Design to Improve the Plausibility and Precision of Self-Reported Business Outcomes Discussant: Burak Uras
- William Parienté Evaluating the Effects of Entrepreneurship Edutainment in Egypt Discussant: Francesco Cecchi
- Peter Lanjouw Sub-National Inequality: Does It Matter and Can We Capture It?
- DFID early research Gonzague Vannoorenberghe Imported Input Varieties and Product Innovation: Evidence from Five Developing Countries
- DFID early research Haki Pamuk The Impact of Mobile Money on Small and Medium Businesses: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
- DFID early research Patricio Dalton Aspirations of Small Retailers: Evidence from Jakarta
Friday 12 May
- Alexander Popov Dirty Bankers? Financial Development and Industrial Pollution Discussant: Robert Sparrow
- Kate Orkin Competitiveness, Turnout and Partisanship: A Field Experiment Providing Information on Polls in South Africa Discussant: Menno Pradhan
- Kjetil Bjorvatn Empowering the Disabled through Savings Groups: Experimental Evidence from Uganda Discussant: Haki Pamuk
- Daan van Soest Can Incentive-Compatible Value Elicitation Methods Help Design PES Schemes? Evidence from Lab and Field Discussant: Erwin Bulte
- Berber Kramer Liquid Milk: Cash Constraints and Day-to-Day Intertemporal Choice in Financial Diaries Discussant: Ian Levely