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 1

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

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
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
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
15 May	Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ahmed, University of Khartoum Understanding inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan
22 May	Vito Peragine, University of Bari
29 May** 15:00-15:30	Khoa Vu, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow
29 May** 15:30-16:30	Samir Zine El Aiaoui, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Local tax revenue mobilization in Africa: Evidence from Morocco
4 June** *This event will take place on Tuesday from 15:00-15:30	Patricia Funjika, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow Colonial Origin, Ethnicity and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
4 June** *This event will take place on Tuesday from 15:30-16:00	Shreshti Rawat, UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow
12 June	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
26 June	Philip J Grossman, Monash University, Australia It pays to be a man: rewards for leaders in a coordination game