Wednesday 2 December
14:15 Public event on International Poverty Measures,
Gamle festsal, Urbygningen, UiO, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo city centre
18:30 End of event
19:00 Dinner at Kunstnernes hus, Wergelandsveien 17
Thursday 3 December
Venue: Professorboligen, UiO
08.45 Registration
09.00 Introduction by François Bourguignon
SESSION 1
09.10 Jean-Marie Baland, University of Namur:
Firewood Collections, Forest Conditions, and Economic Growth: Evidence from
Rural Nepal in 2003-2010
10.00 Amrita Dhillon, King’s College London:
The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India
10.50 Coffee Break
11:30 Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University:
The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
12.20 Rachid Laajaj, Paris School of Economics:
The Validity and Reliability of Skills Measurement in Rural Household Surveys
13.10 Lunch (and Executive Committee Meeting)
SESSION 2
14.40 Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen:
The Impact of School Fees on Schooling Outcomes and the Intergenerational
Transmission of Education
15.30 Martina Viarengo, The Graduate Institute - Geneva:
Nation-Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass
Migration
16.20 Coffee Break
16.40 Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Paris School of Economics:
Big Hits in Exports and Successful Firms
17.30 EUDN General Assembly (restricted to full members)
19:00 End of Academic Programme, Day 1
20.00 Dinner at Elias mat og sånt, Kristian Augusts gate 14
Friday 4 December
Venue: Professorboligen, UiO
SESSION 3
08.45 Marie Boltz, University of Namur:
Hiding Income and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-field experiment in
Senegal
09.35 Lore Vandewalle, The Graduate Institute – Geneva:
Increasing Trust in the Bank to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence
from India
10.25 Janneke Pieters, Wageningen University:
The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from
Brazil
11.15 Coffee Break
11.40 Gani Aldashev, Université libre de Bruxelles:
When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (Mis)allocation in the Non-Profït Sector
12.30 Jacobus De Hoop, Unicef:
Can a Partial Schooling Subsidy Increase Child Labor? Experimental Evidence
from the Philippines and Mexico
13.30 Lunch
14:30 End of Academic Programme, day 2
14.30 Optional Visit to the National Gallery
15:30 End of Optional Visit
The event is hosted by ESOP in cooperation with EUDN.
The event is funded by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
and
The Department for Economic Relations and Development on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.