Development Therapy

 

This is an informal bi-monthly meeting for faculty and graduate students to present ongoing research and to receive constructive comments and criticism that will further its development. The seminar welcomes research that draws on the full range of topics within the discipline of development economics.

Click here [.pdf, 95kb] for the program.
Seminars are held at 16.15-18.00, at La Voie-Creuse (Room CV502) - unless specified otherwise. 

For further information please contact the organizers: Jean-Louis Arcand (jean-louis.arcand@graduateinstitute.ch) and Martina Viarengo (martina.viarengo@graduateinstitute.ch).

An interesting paper to read: it might give you ideas for a paper of your own: Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky "Effects of Land Titling on Child Health" www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-491.pdf"

 

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Schaun Larcom, "Payback Killings and Legal Pluralism in Papua New Guinea: an Economic Analysis"

Pavel Chakraborty, "Institutions, History and Industrial Performance: Evidence from Industry-level Data in India"

Zacharias Ziegelhoefer, "Preliminary Results from a DHS Pseudo Panel"

Rohan Gudibande, “Political Economy of Riots in West Bengal: An Empirical Investigation”

Damien de Walque, World Bank, “Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV/STI Prevention in Tanzania” (.pdf)

 Anastasia Aladysheva, "Bad Stuff Happening: An Alternative View on the Colonial Origin of Comparative Development"

Marcio Jose Vargas da Cruz, "Do Export Promotion Agencies Impact on Export? A Firm-Level Evaluation of Different Export Promotion Services"

Matthias Rieger, “Do Gamblers Have Healthier Babies?”

Jonathan Kaminski, “Interlinkages and Joint Liability” (.pdf)

Chiara Ravetti, "Development, Environment and Conflict"
Malek Garbouj, "Malnutrition of Gambian Children"
Matteo Morgandi, "Informality in Firms" (presentation .pdf)

Marcio Jose Vargas da Cruz and Zacharias Ziegelhofer,  "Investments in child health and education" [.pdf, 1010kb]

Natascha Wagner, "Why female genital cutting persists" [pdf]