All CREDIT Events

2023/24 seminars

CREDIT Seminar: Joseph Flavian Gomes (Economics School of Louvain and IRES)

Date: 18 October 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Ethnic remoteness reduces the peace dividend from trade access (A41, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Mahreen Mahmud (University of Exeter)

Date: 01 November 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Wage subsidies to promote female hiring: Evidence from Pakistan (A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Livia Menezes (University of Birmingham)

Date: 08 November 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Maternal dismissals during pregnancy and the health of newborns (A40, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick)

Date: 06 March 2024 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Temperature and maltreatment of young children (A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Guilhem Cassan (University of Namur)

Date: 27 March 2024 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Debroise: Invisibilization of mothers. Child penalty in cinema and media: evidence from actors.(A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Annemie Maertens (University of Sussex)

Date: 23 April 2024 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Restoring trust: Evidence from the fertiliser market in Tanzania (A39, SCGB)

2022/23 seminars

CREDIT Seminar: Catherine Guirkinger (University of Namur)

Date: 19 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Pro-birth policies, missions and fertility : historical evidence from Congo (A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)

Date: 26 October 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Antidepressant use and school academic achievement (A41,SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)

Date: 09 November 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Strikes and innovation (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CREDIT Seminar: Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po)

Date: 14 December 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Electoral turnovers (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled Joint SAS / CREDIT Seminar: Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)

Date: 04 January 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom

CREDIT Seminar: Stefano Cario (University of Warwick)

Date: 22 February 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: C43 Sir Clive Granger
Description: Climate change beliefs and climate migration in Bangladesh (C43)

CREDIT Seminar: Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford)

Date: 22 March 2023 (16:00-17:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Women's empowerment and the intrinsic demand for agency: Experimental evidence from Nigeria

CREDIT Seminar: Clare Leaver (University of Oxford)

Date: 26 April 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Management and performance in mid-level bureaucracies: Evidence from Ghanaian education districts (A39, SCGB)

Cancelled CREDIT Seminar: Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick)

Date: 03 May 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building

CREDIT Seminar: Sascha Becker (Monash University)

Date: 10 May 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Discrimination, political orientation, and the decision to migrate: University Professors in Fascist Italy (A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Pauline Grosjean (UNSW)

Date: 07 June 2023 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: War, polarization, and partisanship (zoom)

2021/22 seminars

CREDIT Seminar: Jonathan Weigel (LSE)

Date: 06 October 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Optimal matching of bureaucrats: Evidence from randomly assigned tax collectors in the DRC

CREDIT Seminar: Jonathan de Quidt (IIES Stockholm)

Date: 20 October 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Market design for land trade: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Uganda

CREDIT Seminar: James Fenske (University of Warwick)

Date: 27 October 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Sex ratios in colonial India

Joint CREDIT / NICEP Seminar: Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)

Date: 04 November 2021 (16:00-17:00)
Location:: Zoom

Joint SAS/CREDIT Seminar: Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University)

Date: 17 November 2021 (15:00-16:30)
Location:: Zoom

CANCELLED CREDIT Seminar: Lakshmi Iyer (University of Notre Dame)

Date: 01 December 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: *CANCELLED* It takes a village: Administrative devolution and human development in India

CREDIT Seminar: Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University)

Date: 15 December 2021 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Reporting peers' wrongdoing: Experimental evidence on the effect of financial incentives on morally controversial behaviour

CREDIT Seminar: Marcella Alsan (Harvard University)

Date: 19 January 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Civil Liberties in times of crisis

CREDIT Seminar: Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)

Date: 23 February 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A42 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: A field experiment using mechanism design

CREDIT Seminar: Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy)

Date: 09 March 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Revealing stereotypes: Evidence from immigrants in schools

Joint CREDIT /CeDEx Seminar: Gautam Rao (Harvard University)

Date: 23 March 2022 (14:00-15:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Learning from others

Joint CREDIT/CeDEx Seminar: Alberto Bisin (New York University)

Date: 24 March 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger & Online
Description: Elites and civil society (A45, SCGB and online)

Cancelled CREDIT Seminar: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick)

Date: 20 April 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: *Cancelled* Women's labour force participation and the distribution of the gender wage gap: An equilibrium model (A39, SCGB)

Postponed CREDIT Seminar: Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE)

Date: 04 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Pandemic shock and economic divergence: Political economy before and after the black death

CREDIT Seminar: Marina Palma (Erasmus Rotterdam)

Date: 11 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: How and when: Cash and care effect of conditional cash transfers on birth outcomes

CREDIT Seminar: Luigi Pascali (UPF Barcelona)

Date: 18 May 2022 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Wars, taxation and representation: Evidence from five centuries of German history (zoom)

2020/21 seminars

CREDIT Development Seminar: Eduardo Montero (University of Michigan)

Date: 03 March 2021
Description: Religious festivals and economic development: Evidence from catholic saint day festivals in Mexico

CREDIT Development Seminar: Namrata Kala (MIT)

Date: 17 March 2021
Description: Environmental regulation and firm size

CREDIT Development Seminar: Gharad Bryan, LSE

Date: 21 April 2021
Description: Big loans for small firms

CREDIT Development Seminar: Ruixue Jia (UCSD)

Date: 05 May 2021
Description: Entrepreneurial reluctance: Talent and firm creation in China

CREDIT Development Seminar: Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern Kellogg)

Date: 19 May 2021
Description: Acquisitions, management and efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda's coffee industry

CREDIT Development Seminar: Emma Riley (University of Oxford)

Date: 26 May 2021
Description: Resisting social pressure in the household using mobile money: Experimental evidence on microenterprise investment in Uganda

2019/20 seminars

James Jones (University of Auckland)

Date: 25 September 2019
Description: Gender bias and male backlash as drivers of crime against women: Evidence from India

Smriti Sharma (Newcastle University Business School)

Date: 16 October 2019
Description: Inequality, corruption and cooperation: Evidence from Vietnam

CREDIT Development Seminar: Anna Minasyan (University of Groningen)

Date: 30 October 2019
Description: The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls (A44, SCGB)

CREDIT Development Seminar: Mahreen Mahmud (Oxford)

Date: 13 November 2019
Description: Cash transfers, aspirations and goal-setting: Impact on female empowerment (A44, SCGB)

CREDIT Development Seminar: Kate Vyborny (Duke University)

Date: 27 November 2019
Description: Transport, urban labor markets, and women's mobility (A44, SCGB)

Cancelled GEP / CREDIT Development Seminar: Kai Gehring (University of Zurich)

Date: 18 March 2020
Description: *Cancelled* External threat, group identity, and support for common policies - The effect of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on European Union identity (A44, SCGB)

2018/19 seminars

Marisa von Fintel (Stellenbosch University)

Date: 31 October 2018
Description: Government accountability and service delivery: Piloting a quality intervention in government-initiated housing projects in South Africa

Alejandro Estefan (UCL)

Date: 07 November 2018
Description: The fiscal burden of many carried by a few: Evidence from Mexico

Clare Balboni (LSE)

Date: 14 November 2018
Description: In harm's way? Infrastructure investments and the persistence of coastal cities

Catherine Guirkinger (University of Namur)

Date: 14 November 2018
Description: Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections

Marc Witte (University of Oxford)

Date: 21 November 2018
Description: Job referrals and strategic network formation - Experimental evidence from urban neighbourhoods in Ethiopia

Gaston Yalonetzky (University of Leeds)

Date: 28 November 2018
Description: Pro-poor growth with limited intergenerational mobility: the case of overcrowding in Mexico

Melanie Meng Xue (Northwestern University)

Date: 20 February 2019
Description: Folklore

Samuel Lordemus (University of Sheffield)

Date: 06 March 2019
Description: Are donors targeting the highest health needs? Evidence from mining sites in the DR Congo

Christa Brunnschweiler (UEA)

Date: 03 April 2019
Description: Follow the leader: Using videos to make information on resource revenue management more relevant

Kate Orkin (University of Oxford)

Date: 10 April 2019
Description: The future in mind: Short and long-run impact of an aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia

postponed: CREDIT Seminar: Anna Minasyan (University of Groningen)

Date: 15 May 2019
Description: The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls (A44, SCGB)

CREDIT Development Seminar: Kian Ong (University of Nottingham, Malaysia)

Date: 20 June 2019
Description: The effects of languages of instruction on educational and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Malaysia (A44)

2017/18 seminars

Soumyatanu Mukherjee (IIM Kozhikode)

Date: 11 October 2017
Description: Exchange rate volatility and exports: estimation of firms' risk preference using firm-level data from India

Peter Chacha (University of Cape Town)

Date: 25 October 2017
Description: Exporting to fragile states in Africa: Firm level evidence

Stefano Cario (University of Oxford)

Date: 15 November 2017
Description: The selection of talent: Experimental and structural evidence from Ethiopia

Cheryl Doss (University of Oxford)

Date: 29 November 2017
Description: He says, she says: Exploring patterns of spousal agreement in Bangladesh

Charles Efferson (Royal Holloway University of London) and Sonja Vogt (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

Date: 21 February 2018
Description: The seduction of applied conformity

Kunal Sen (University of Manchester)

Date: 07 March 2018
Description: Was Kuznets right? New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequality

Leigh Gardner (LSE)

Date: 14 March 2018
Description: Legacies of indirect rule? Native authority spending and local economic development in British Africa

Haicheng Jiang (University of Belfast)

Date: 02 May 2018
Description: Civil conflict and ethnic identity in Africa

2016/17 seminars

Giulia Mascagni (IDS)

Date: 16 November 2016
Description: One size does not fit all: A field experiment on the drivers of tax compliance and on delivery methods in Rwanda

Rachel Cassidy (University of Oxford)

Date: 23 November 2016
Description: Are the poor really so present-biased? Evidence from a field experiment in rural Pakistan

Camilla Cisneros (University of Nottingham)

Date: 30 November 2016
Description: Trade Liberalisation Effect in Two Margins of Informality. The Peruvian Case

Pramila Krishnan (University of Oxford)

Date: 15 February 2017
Description: Fading choice: transport costs and variety in consumer goods

Margaux Vinez (Paris School of Economics)

Date: 22 February 2017
Description: Adoption of improved seeds and land allocation, evidence from DRC

Salamat Ali (University of Nottingham)

Date: 08 March 2017
Description: Differential effects of internal and external remoteness on trade flows: the case of Pakistan

Julia Bird (University of Oxford)

Date: 15 March 2017
Description: The urban land market: A computable equilibrium model applied to Kampala City

Halima Jibril (University of Leeds)

Date: 29 March 2017
Description: Oil prices and trade balances of sub-Saharan African countries: what are the roles of exchange rates?

Abhijeet Singh (UCL)

Date: 11 May 2017
Description: Disrupting education? Experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (UAB-Barcelona GSE)

Date: 17 May 2017
Description: Land misallocation and productivity

Nathan Lane (Stockholm University)

Date: 24 May 2017
Description: Manufacturing revolutions - industrial policy and networks in South Korea

2015/16 seminars

Jeremy Foltz (University of Wisconsin)

Date: 14 October 2015
Description: Do Higher Salaries Lower Petty Corruption? A Policy Experiment on West Africa's Highways

Canh Thien Dang (University of Nottingham)

Date: 21 October 2015
Description: Why Do Ugandan NGOs Diversify their Activities? Pecuniary and Private Benefits.

Tewodros Gebrewolde (University of Leicester)

Date: 11 November 2015
Description: The Effectiveness of Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Causal Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing Firms

Federico Tadei (Bocconi University)

Date: 18 November 2015
Description: Colonial Trade and Extractive Institutions in British and French Africa

Mehdi Chowdhury (Bournemouth University)

Date: 02 March 2016
Description: Internal and International Remittances and Wealth Accumulation in Bangladesh: A Study using Generalized Propensity Score

Gani Aldashev (University of Namur, Belgium)

Date: 16 March 2016
Description: Colonization and changing social structure: Kazakhstan, 1896-1910

Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin)

Date: 20 April 2016
Description: Imports, supply chains and productivity

Bereket Kebede (University of East Anglia)

Date: 04 May 2016
Description: Impact evaluation of rural development projects and experimental games: A case study from three developing countries.

Basile Boulay (University of Nottingham)

Date: 08 June 2016
Description: Revisiting the old debate: plot size and agricultural productivity

2014/15 seminars

Ameet Morgaria (Harvard)

Date: 08 October 2014
Description: Competition and Efficiency in Imperfect Markets: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee

Godfrey Mahofa (University of Capetown)

Date: 29 October 2014
Description: Spatial Dimensions of Firm Activity in South Africa

Sam Marden (LSE)

Date: 05 November 2014
Description: Agricultural Reform and 'Growth Miracles': Evidence from China

Salamat Ali (University of Nottingham)

Date: 19 November 2014
Description: Scrambled Signals: Impact of SPS and TBT measures on the export of mangoes from Pakistan

Alessio Gaggero (University of Nottingham)

Date: 26 November 2014
Description: Living with Disability: Evidence from an Intervention in Uganda

Joseph Gomes (University of Essex)

Date: 03 December 2014
Description: The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jonathan Colmer (LSE)

Date: 28 January 2015
Description: "Agricultural Productivity, Factor Reallocation, and Industrial Production in the Short Run: Evidence from India"

Carlos Oya (SOAS, University of London)

Date: 11 February 2015
Description: Fair wages? Assessing differences between wages in Fairtrade certified and non-certified farms: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Shaista Alam (Nottingham)

Date: 18 February 2015
Description: The Effect of Preferential Trade Agreements on Pakistan's Export Performance

Douglas Gollin (Oxford ODID)

Date: 25 February 2015
Description: Measuring Living Standards across Space in the Developing World

Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia)

Date: 25 March 2015
Description: Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Karlijn Morsink - University of Oxford

Date: 29 April 2015
Description: Formal Insurance and Transfer Motives in Informal Risk-Sharing Groups

Lucio Esposito (UEA)

Date: 08 May 2015
Description: Absolute Wealth, Relative Deprivation and Relative Satisfaction as Determinants of Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Mexico

Ronelle Burger (Stellenbosch University)

Date: 13 May 2015
Description: The tightrope-walk of NGO reputation: Concealment and misrepresentation amidst competing stakeholder demands

Sandra Sequeira (LSE)

Date: 20 May 2015
Description: Corruption, Trade Costs and Gains from Tariff Liberalization: Evidence from Southern Africa

Masooda Bano (Oxford, ODID)

Date: 27 May 2015
Description: Education and Aspirations: Evidence from Islamic and state schools in Pakistan and Nigeria

David Fielding (University of Otago)

Date: 10 June 2015
Description: Understanding the Etiology of Electoral Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe

2013/14 seminars

James Fenske (University of Oxford)

Date: 16 October 2013
Description: War, Resilience, and Political Engagement in Africa

Armin von Schiller (German Development Institute and Hertie School of Governance)

Date: 30 October 2013
Description: "Tax collection in developing countries – New evidence on semi-autonomous revenue agencies (SARAs) "

Arcangelo Dimico (Queens University of Belfast)

Date: 13 November 2013
Description: "Trade-Off Quality vs Quantity, Poverty Trap, and Educational Shock: Evidence from Missionary Fields"

Paul Clist (UEA)

Date: 20 November 2013
Description: "Nature's Frames, Reference Lotteries and Truly Risky Choice: Evidence from a Ugandan Field Lab"

Marie-Claire Robitaille (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)

Date: 22 January 2014
Description: "Sex-Selective Abortions and Infant Mortality in India: The Role of Parents' Stated Son Preference"

Simon Quinn (University of Oxford)

Date: 05 March 2014
Description: "Networks and manufacturing firms in Africa: Results from a randomised field experiment"(A44)

Jonathan Schulz (University of Nottingham)

Date: 26 March 2014
Description: Societal Differences in Honesty

Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham)

Date: 09 April 2014
Description: "Agricultural Technology and Structural Change"

Mans Söderbom (University of Gothenburg)

Date: 30 April 2014
Description: "Social networks and the diffusion of a new mobile money technology in Rwanda"

2012/13 seminars

Development Economics Seminar - Laura Camfield (UEA)

Date: 13 March 2013

Development Economics Seminar - Zaki Wahhaj (Kent)

Date: 01 May 2013
Description: A Theory of Child Marriage (A44 SCGB)

Development Economics Seminar - Frédéric Lesné (Auvergne/CERDI)

Date: 08 May 2013
Description: "School Fees, Parental Participation and Accountability: Evidence from Madagascar".

Development Economics Seminar - Emilija Timmis (Nottingham) and Giulia Mascagni (Sussex)

Date: 15 May 2013
Description: Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ethiopia: A Cointegrated VAR approach (A44 SCGB)

CREDIT Development Seminar - Jonathan Timmis (Nottingham)

Date: 05 June 2013
Description: Internet Adoption And Firm Exports In Developing Countries: A New Instrumental Variable Approach (A39 SCGB)

CREDIT Development Seminar - David Fielding (Otago)

Date: 12 June 2013
Description: How Much Does Women's Empowerment Influence Their Wellbeing? Evidence from Senegal (A39, SCGB)

2011/12 seminars

Development Economics Seminar series - Iftikhar Hussain (University of Sussex and Centre for Economic Performance, LSE)

Date: 07 December 2011
Description: "Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence from School Inspections"

Development Economics Seminar series - Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia)

Date: 08 February 2012
Description: How does conflict affect economic performance. Micro evidence from Rwanda.Pieter Serneels, University of East Anglia and Marijke Verpoorten, K.University Leuven