WIDER Seminar Series materials
About the WIDER Seminar Series
The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. Click here to learn more.
20 October 2021
Omar McDoom | London School of Economics | Presentation
05 February 2020
Sushanta Mallick | Queen Mary University of London | Audio | Presentation
29 January 2020
23 January 2020
Neil Ruiz | Pew Research Center | Audio | Presentation
22 January 2020
Bereket Kebede | University of East Anglia | Audio | Presentation
Endowment effects and gender in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation
18 December 2019
Erwin Bulte | Wageningen University | Audio | Presentation
11 December 2019
Mariapia Mendola | University of Milano Bicocca | Presentation
04 December 2019
Fantu Cheru & Christopher Cramer | American University & SOAS | Presentation
13 November 2019
Stéphane Straub | Toulouse School of Economics | Audio
Voting corrupt politicians out of office? Evidence from a survey experiment in Paraguay
08 November 2019
Ravi Pendakur | University of Ottawa | Audio
The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities
10 October 2019
Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso | University of Göttingen | Presentation
09 October 2019
Mazhar Waseem | Manchester University | Audio | Presentation
Pecuniary and non-pecuniary motivations for tax compliance: evidence from Pakistan
25 September 2019
François Roubaud | IRD | Audio | Presentation
The informal economy in developing countries: measurement issues and economic challenges
23 September 2019
Jambo Hamisi Ramadhani | UONGOZI Institute | Audio | Presentation
Enhancing socio-economic benefits of the mining industry in Tanzania: ten key priorities
18 September 2019
Simone Bertoli | CERDI University of Auvergne | Audio | Presentation
28 August 2019
Olivier Bargain | University of Bordeaux | Audio | Presentations
26 June 2019
Sanjay Reddy | Independent High-level Team of Advisers to ECOSOC | Audio
19 June 2019
12 June 2019
4 June 2019
Patricia Funjika | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation
Colonial Origin, Ethnicity and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Shreshti Rawat | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation
Inequality of opportunity: informal sector estimates for India and policy implications
29 May 2019
Khoa Vu | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation
The causal relationship between parental and children's educational attainment: Evidence from Vietnam
22 May 2019
Vito Peragine | University of Bari | Audio | Presentation
Measuring inequality of opportunity: recent empirical findings and some new theoretical results
15 May 2019
Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla| University of Khartoum | Audio | Presentation
Understanding inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan
10 May 2019
Ritwik Banerjee | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Audio | Presentation
The link between corruption and tax evasion - an experimental investigation
May 8 2019
Aimable Nsabimana | University of Rwanda | Audio | Presentation
Weathering shocks: the effects of weather shocks on farm input use in sub-Saharan Africa
17 April 2019
Saidou Abdoulaye Sy | UNU-WIDER PhD Fellow | Audio | Presentation
Opeyemi Akinyemi | Covenant University | Audio | Presentation
Green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa
10 April 2019
3 April 2019
Vegard Iversen | Natural Resource Institute | Audio | Presentation
Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: theory and suggestive evidence from India
27 March 2019
Sandra Halvorsen | PhD candidate at the Norwegian School of Economics | Audio | Presentation
Factory employment and fertility decisions: Field experimental evidence from Ethiopia
22 March 2019
James Robinson | Harris School for Public Policy | Audio | Presentation
20 March 2019
Margaret McMillan | Tufts University | Audio | Presentation | Video
Structural change and labor productivity in sub-Saharan Africa
13 March 2019
Michael Woolcock | World Bank | Presentation
Lant Pritchett | Harvard University | Presentation
Audio
27 February 2019
Dilip Mookherjee | Boston University | Audio | Presentation
Decentralized targeting of agricultural credit in West Bengal: private vs. political intermediaries,
20 February 2019
Ashwini Deshpande | Ashoka University | Audio | Presentation
6 February 2019
Costanza Biavaschi | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Audio | Presentation
23 January 2019
Maurizio Bussolo | World Bank | Audio | Presentation
Towards a new social contract – taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia