WIDER Seminar Series

© UNU-WIDER The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. At the weekly sessions, early-career and senior researchers present recent and ongoing work related to UNU-WIDER’s current work programme.

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

© UNU-WIDER The programme for 2020 features, in addition to UNU-WIDER researchers, notable guest speakers, including a presentation from Bereket Kebede on endowment effects and gender in the efficiency and equity of team allocation; Sushanta Mallick on is financial inclusion good for banks; and Osman Ouattara on temperature shocks and inflation.

The Seminar Series events take place on Wednesdays from 15:00-16:00 at UNU-WIDER unless indicated with an asterisks. Seminars will be live streamed on Facebook and recordings and presentations will be available after the event here. For more information email: tomi@wider.unu.edu

2020 - Upcoming events

The Seminar Series events take place on Wednesdays from 15-16:00 at UNU-WIDER except where indicated with an asterisk.

22 January	Bereket Kebede, School of International Development Endowment Effects and Gender in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation
23 January* This event will take place on Thursday from 15:00-16:00	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'
5 February	Sushanta Mallick, Queen Mary University Is financial inclusion good for banks?
12 February	Saurabh Singhal, Lancaster University Inequality, corruption and cooperation
27 February* This event will take place on Thursday from 15:00-16:00	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* This event will take place on Thursday from 15:00-16:00	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
25 March	WIDER PHD Fellows - TBC
8 April	Jérémie Gignoux, Paris School of Economics
20 April* This event will take place on Monday from 15:00-16:00	Rajeev Goel, Illinois State University Corruption beyond the glass ceiling: do women entrepreneurs perceive corruption differently?
22 April	Clive Bell
27 May	WIDER PHD Fellows - TBC
1 June* This event will take place on Monday from 15:00-16:00	Michele di Maio
3 June	WIDER PHD Fellows - TBC
10 June	Miri Stryjan

2019 - Past events

23 January* This event will take place from 14:00-15:00	Maurizio Bussolo, World Bank Towards a new social contract – taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia
6 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* Professor McMillan will present via video conference	Margaret McMillan, Tufts University Structural change and labor productivity in sub-Saharan Africa
22 March* This event will take place on Friday from 16:00-17:30	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
3 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** 15:00-15:30	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 15:30-16:00	Opeyemi Akinyemi, Covenant University, Nigeria Green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa
8 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** 15:00-15:30	Khoa Vu, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow The causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
4 June** *This event will take place on Tuesday from 11:00-11:30	Patricia Funjika, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Colonial Origin, Ethnicity and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
4 June** *This event will take place on Tuesday from 11:30-12:00	Shreshti Rawat, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications
12 June *This seminar is not recorded or streamed.	Amina Ebrahim, UNU-WIDER Can a wage subsidy system help reduce 50 per cent youth unemployment? Evidence from South Africa
19 June *This seminar is not recorded or streamed	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

2019 - Past events

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 *This seminar will take place on a Monday from 15:30-16:30	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
9 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 *This seminar is not recorded or streamed	Oded Stark, Universities of Bonn and Warsaw Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
28 October *This seminar is on a Monday	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
6 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
8 November* This event will take place on Friday from 15:00-16:00	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
4 December	Fantu Cheru, School of International Service, American University 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