2023: 1st Dutch Development Economics Network PhD Workshop

The network’s first workshop dedicated to PhD students, hosted by Utrecht University.
PhD Workshop
Event date

November 10, 2023

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Utrecht University

When
10 November 2023

Where
Utrecht University, Utrecht

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1 day 14 PhD presentations 7 universities

The network’s first workshop dedicated to PhD students gave the floor entirely to early-career researchers. Fourteen PhD candidates — two from each of the seven participating universities in Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Tilburg, Utrecht and Wageningen — presented their work in 25-minute slots over a single day at Utrecht University, and the day ended with dinner.

Child marriage and intimate partner violence, vulnerability within institutions, attitudes towards refugees, pensions and old-age support, crop insurance, parental migration, soft skills in school, Covid-19 and economic mobility, foreign aid, seed access and nutrition, social media and gender norms, and the aftermath of war were among the topics.

Programme

Friday 10 November

  • Albena Sotirova, Amsterdam Child Marriage Around the World: Evidence from Repeated Cross-sectional Data
  • Anne Lieke Ebbers, Nijmegen Child Marriage, The Law and Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Anouk van Veldhoven, Utrecht Interventions that Disrupt the Peace: Intimate Partner Violence when Targeting Men, Women or Both
  • Sueda Evirgen, Tilburg Vulnerability within Institutions: An Economic Framework
  • Tobias Hillenbrand, Maastricht Rather Unsafe or Sorry? The Role of Humanitarian Concern and Threat Perceptions in Shaping Solidarity Towards Refugees
  • Frederick Amon-Armah, Groningen Do Pension Savings by Smallholder Farmers in Africa Depend on Old-Age Support of their Children?
  • Samyuktha Kannan, Wageningen The Effect of Premium Payment Timing and Window on Willingness-To-Pay and Uptake of Crop Insurance
  • Emily Häntschel, Nijmegen The Effects of Parental Migration on Educational and Child Labour Outcomes for Children Left Behind: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  • Anaya Dam, Utrecht Can Teaching Soft Skills Improve Academic Outcomes? Evidence from a Goal-Setting Curriculum
  • Gerton Rongen, Amsterdam Effects of Covid-19 on Economic Mobility in Malaysia
  • Calumn Hamilton, Groningen Foreign Aid and Structural Change
  • Lan Nguyen T.T., Wageningen Linking Seed Accessibility to Nutrition in the Context of Ethnic Minority Groups in Northern Vietnam: An Application of Multi-level Structural Equation Model (MSEM)
  • Praachi Kumar, Maastricht Mind the App: Gender Norms and Social Media
  • Camilo Arias, Tilburg (& Los Andes) What to Expect when you are Expecting (War is Over)