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CREDIT
Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade

All CREDIT Events

Everyone interested in development economics, economic history, and political economy is welcome to attend CREDIT seminars. They are held on Wednesdays at 2pm.

2025/26 seminars

coming soon

 

2024/25 seminars

CREDIT Seminar: Paul Clist (University of East Anglia)

Date
06 November 2024 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Bilinguals in the lab: Why does randomising language affect cooperation? (A39, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Eve Colson-Sihra (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Date
05 March 2025 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Product bans as protectionism: The Maggi scare (A40, SCGB)

CREDIT Seminar: Robert Lensink (University of Groningen)

Date
26 March 2025 (14:00-15:00)
Location:
A40 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Experimental impacts of empowerment training and cultural agency models on female microfinance clients in Vietnam (A40, SCGB)

 

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)

CREDIT Seminar: Maite Alguacil (University Jaume I, Institute of International Economics)

Date
25 June 2024 (16:00-17:00)
Location:
A42 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Environmental Stringency and International Trade (A42, 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)

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

*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 (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, 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

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2016/17 seminars

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2015/16 seminars

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2014/15 seminars

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2013/14 seminars

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2012/13 seminars

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2011/12 seminars

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