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Meeting and Registration for new arrivals (Georg-Schumann-Bau, Entrance Hall)
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| 9:00 |
Parallel Session 2 (Georg-Schumann-Bau)
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Parallel Session 2A - Room: A101
Development aid
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg. Trust funds and the sub-national effectiveness of development aid: Evidence from the World Bank.
Paper 2: Nathalie Ferriere. Filling the "decency gap"? Donors' reaction to the US policy on international family planning aid.
Paper 3: Jochen Kluve, Lennart Reiners, Yota Eilers, Jörg Langbein. Volume, risk, complexity: analyzing success factors of development finance projects.
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Parallel Session 2B - Room: A117
Education
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Simeon Lauterbach. School fee reductions, secondary education and labour market outcomes in Uganda. Has the investment paid off?
Paper 2: Sebastian Fehrler. Does anyone watch educational television? Evidence from Bangladesh during COVID-related school closures.
Paper 3: Esther Gehrke. Career goals and investments in education: Experimental evidence from Cambodia.
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Parallel Session 2C - Room: A118
Firms and firm support
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Hisaki Kono, Abu Shonchoy, Kazushi Takahashi. At the Right Time: Eliminating Mismatch between Cash Flow and Credit Flow in Microcredit.
Paper 2: Marina Dodlova, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Anna Kochanova, Olivia Wirth. Mobile Technologies and Firm Performance: Evidence from Uganda.
Paper 3: Michael Grimm, Sidiki Soubeiga, Michael Weber. Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso.
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Parallel Session 2D - Room: A215
Political economy and conflict
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Richard Bluhm, Paul Schaudt, Roland Hodler. Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting.
Paper 2: Thomas Gautier, Daniela Horta Saenz, Gianluca Russo. Nation-Building in Post-Conflict Settings: Evidence from South Africa.
Paper 3: Jonathan Old. Political Reservations and Low-Level Conflict: Evidence from India.
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Parallel Session 2E - Room: A216
Gender and women's empowerment
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Felix Rusche. Broadcasting Change: Community Radio and Women’s Empowerment in India.
Paper 2: Ishrat Hans, Pedro Naso. The Economic Benefits of Being a Man: Evidence from Rural Burundi.
Paper 3: Ankush Asri, Viola Asri, Anke Hoeffler. Unlocking young women’s minds at scale? Evidence from urban India.
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Parallel Session 2F - Room: A315
Health technology adoption
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Silvia Fernandez Castro, Clarissa Mang. Breaking the Silence - Group Discussions, Social Pressure, and the Adoption of Health Technologies.
Paper 2: Lame Ungwang. Nudging technology adoption: Experimental evidence on menstrual cup uptake in Botswana.
Paper 3: Aixa Maria Garcia Ramos, Mayra Pineda Torres. Access to abortion and intimate partner violence.
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Parallel Session 2G - Room: A316
Cash transfers and public works
Room: Green room
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Patrick Agte. The Making of a Public Sector Worker: The Causal Effects of Temporary Work Assignments to Poor Areas.
Paper 2: Christine Kahura, Emmanuel Rukundo, Daniel Stein, Rico Bergmann, Prankur Gupta, Winfred Kananu, Heather Lanthorn, Kyla Longman, Gabrielle Posner, Noel Rutto, T J Zhao. Cash transfers amid shocks: A large, one-time, unconditional cash transfer to refugees in Uganda has multidimensional benefits after 19 months.
Paper 3: Katharina Fietz. Exit patterns of Bolsa Familia and the role of the local labor market in Brazil.
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break (Georg-Schumann-Bau, Entrance Hall) |
| 11:00 |
Parallel Session 3 (Georg-Schumann-Bau) |
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Parallel Session 3A - Room: A101
Climate change, rainfall shocks and index insurance
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Johannes Michael Gallé. Indian agriculture under climate change: The competing effect of temperature and rainfall anomalies.
Paper 2: Laura Moritz. Ex-ante and ex-post effects of index insurance on welfare and climate resilience: Experimental findings from Uzbekistan.
Paper 3: Tekalign Gutu Sakketa. The Protective Role of Index Insurance in the Experience of Violent Conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia.
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Parallel Session 3B - Room: A117
Farming, farming practices and food security
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Andre Groeger. The pick of the crop: agricultural practices and clustered networks in village economies.
Paper 2: Marin Ferry, Jeanne de Montalembert. More crops on the land, more food on the plate? Crop diversification and food security in rural Madagascar.
Paper 3: Tessa Bold, Selene Ghisolfi, Frances Nsonzi, Svensson Jakob. Market Access and Demand for Improved Seeds.
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Parallel Session 3C - Room: A118
Health behavior and information
Session Chair: Last presenter
Paper 1: Jakob Jordi Gärtner. Involving Religious Leaders in COVID-19 Awareness Campaigns: Implications for Behavioral Change.
Paper 2: Isabel Günther, Kathrin Durizzo, Edward Asiedu. The impact of better information on petty-corruption: evidence from out-of-pocket expenditures at hospitals.
Paper 3: Manuela Fritz, Michael Grimm, Ingmar Weber, Elad Yom-Tov, Benedictus Praditya. Do loss-framed ads encourage diabetes screening? Evidence from a Facebook diabetes awareness campaign in Indonesia.
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Parallel Session 3D - Room: A215
Migration
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Andre Groeger, Lukas Wellner, Andreas Fuchs, Tobias Heidland. Does Foreign Aid Reduce Migration? Global Micro-Evidence from World Bank Projects.
Paper 2: Claas Schneiderheinze. Migration Responses to Drought: The Importance of Local Economic Opportunities.
Paper 3: Julie Bousquet, Anna Katharina Gasten, Mark Kadigo, Jean-Fran ̧cois Maystadt, Colette Salemi. Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Parallel Session 3E - Room: A216
Favoritism and governance
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Richard Bluhm, Roland Hodler, Paul Schaudt. Local majorities: How administrative divisions shape comparative development.
Paper 2: Iddrisu Kambala Mohammed, Stelios Michalopoulos. Quality of Governance and Long-run Development: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Paper 3: Carlo Birkholz, Zareh Asatryan, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Patrick Hufschmidt. Favoritism by the Governing Elite.
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Parallel Session 3F - Room: A315
Institutions, trust and discrimination
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Renate Hartwig, Jan Priebe, Teguh Dartanto. Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: Evidence from an Audit Study in Indonesia.
Paper 2: Anna Minasyan, Astghik Mavisakalyan. Mining and Mistrust in Government.
Paper 3: Malte Lierl. Improving local government performance by giving civil society a stake.
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Parallel Session 3G - Room: A316
Institutions, media liberalization and property rights
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Joshua Blumenstock, Karrar Hussain, Oeindrila Dube. Can Secular Media Create Backlash? Evidence from Pakistan’s Media Liberalization.
Paper 2: Rahul Mehrotra. Irrigating the Killing Fields: Economic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Genocide.
Paper 3: Alma Bezares Calderon. In Tradition We Trust: The Political Economy of Property Rights.
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch (Alte Mensa)
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| 14:00 |
Plenary Session with Keynote
Room: Georg-Schumann-Bau, GÖR 226
Chair: Christian Leßmann
Keynote: Private Colonialism in Africa by Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)
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Parallel Session 4 (Georg-Schumann-Bau)
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Parallel Session 4A - Room: A101
Migration and information
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Lena Detlefsen, Tobias Heidland, Claas Schneiderheinze. What explains people’s migration aspirations? Experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Paper 2: Bernd Beber, Alexandra Scacco, Macartan Humphreys, Pheliciah Mwachofi, Dean Yang. Misinformation and Irregular Migration: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria.
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Parallel Session 4B - Room: A117
Inequality in South Africa
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Busisiwe Radebe. Injustice squared: Black income inequality in South Africa.
Paper 2: Gan Jin. Are All Men Served Equal(ly)? The Development of the Racial Gap in Public Services in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
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Parallel Session 4C - Room: A118
Trade and welfare
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Zhixiao Yao, Christian Lessmann. Speaking a Common Technical Language: ISO Membership and Non-tariff Trade Barriers.
Paper 2: Clara Brandi, Noémie Laurens, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Jakob Schwab. Using Trade Provisions to Make MEAs more Dynamic.
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Parallel Session 4D - Room: A 215
Economic History II
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Tobias Korn, Lukas Wellner, Matthias Quinckhardt. The Economic Consequences of the War: Evidence from Germany.
Paper 2: Magnus Neubert. Leviathan's Shadow: The Imperial Legacy of State Capacity and Economic Development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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Parallel Session 4E - Room: A216
Protection laws, land titles and deforestation
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Matthias Schündeln, Van Vlodrop Johannes. Land Titles and Deforestation: Evidence from Vietnam.
Paper 2: Melvin Wong. The effects of promoting protected areas on reducing forest cover loss and CO2 emissions: a geospatial matching approach.
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Parallel Session 4F - Room: A315
Armed conflict and civic engagement
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Arouna Sougane, Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud. Army Arrangement? Armed conflict and support for democracy in Mali.
Paper 2: Gerda Asmus. Liberal Values and Civic Engagement: Evidence from a Failed Revolution
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| 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Georg-Schumann-Bau, Entrance Hall) |
| 17:00 |
Parallel Session 5 (Georg-Schumann-Bau)
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- Parallel Session 5A - Room: A101
China's Engagement in Africa
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Joris Mueller. China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants and Economic Effects.
Paper 2: Gustav Pirich, Valentin Lindlacher. The Impact of China’s “Stadium Diplomacy” on Local Economic Development in Africa.
Paper 3: Linda Maokomatanda, Kacana Sipangule. Chinese Investors and Job Seekers’ Preferences: Evidence from Zambia.
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Parallel Session 5B - Room: A117
FDI, Structural Change and African Growth
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Reinhardt Robert. Shaking up Foreign Finance: FDI in a Post-Disaster World.
Paper 2: Jann Lay, Tevin Tafese. Rapid structural change and better jobs: Special Economic Zones, FDI and Labour Markets in Vietnam.
Paper 3: Michael Tueting, Roland Hodler, Paul Schaudt. Cultural frictions, market access, and regional growth in Africa.
- Parallel Session 5C - Room: A118
Natural resources
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Daniel Tuki. Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust: Evidence from Nigeria using an instrumental variable approach.
Paper 3: Hanh My Le, Markus Ludwig. The Salinization of Agricultural Hubs: Impact of and Adjustment to Intensifying Saltwater Intrusion in the Mekong Delta.
- Parallel Session 5D - Room: A215
Nutrition, infrastructure and urban welfare
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Yael Borofsky, Isabel Guenther. Bringing light to the dark - Can solar public lighting improve nighttime life for the urban poor? Paper 2: Zhen Liu. Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China. Paper 3: Malte Becker, Thomas Hone, Rudi Rocha, Stefan Sliwa Ruiz. Doctor Turnover and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Exit of Cuban Doctors in Brazil.
- Parallel Session 5E - Room: A216
Environmental shocks and resilience
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Robyn Blake-Rath, Rasadhika Sharma, Ulrike Grote. Making Smart Choices – Behavioural Traits and Resilience to Environmental Shocks Among Farming Households in Thailand.
Paper 2: Tilman Brück, Marco D'Errico, Jeanne Pinay, Piero Ronzani, Wolfgang Stojetz. Building Resilience during Emergencies: Evidence from North-east Nigeria.
Paper 3: Julian Wichert, Uwe Sunde. Extreme weather events and human capital: evidence across developing countries.
- Parallel Session 5F - Room: A315
Religion, marriage and fertility
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Nicolas Büttner, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Harttgen. “God’s will” – An in-depth analysis of non-numeric fertility desires: Spatio-temporal trends, socio-demographic determinants, and fertility implications.
Paper 2: Anne Simon, Arndt Reichert, Christoph Strupat. The Human Capital Impacts of Banning Child Marriage when Households Face Health Shocks – Evidence from Ethiopia.
Paper 3: Hugues Champeaux, Catherine Guirkinger. Height, parental investments and marriage payments in sub-Sahara Africa.
- Parallel Session 5G - Room: 316
Health insurance and social protection
Session Chair: Last presenter.
Paper 1: Emmanuel Rukundo, Sarah Schroeder. Good policy gone bad? Health insurance, premium changes and labour supply in Rwanda.
Paper 2: Andreas Landmann, Vendula Stepanikova. Education and Inequities in Social Health Protection Programs: Evidence from Pakistan.
Paper 3: Florian Neubauer, Julian Rose, Jörg Ankel-Peters. Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra-Poor Program – A Robustness Replication.
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| 18:30 |
Conference Closing (Georg-Schumann-Bau, Entrance Hall) |
| 19:00 |
Bus transfer to Fährgarten Johannstadt |
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Dinner (optional, at own expenses) |
