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 2019 features, in addition to UNU-WIDER researchers, notable guest speakers, including a presentation from James A. Robinson, University of Chicago, on business and fragility in Africa; Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi University on women's participation in the labour force; and Maurizio Bussolo presenting a new World Bank Report.

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: richardson@wider.unu.edu

2019 - Quarter 2

**Seminars presented by UNU-WIDER PhD Fellows will be for 30 minutes rather than an hour

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	Charles Gore, UNU-WIDER Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10

2019 - Quarter 1 (Past events)

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

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