NCDE - Nordic Conference in Development Economics
June 18-19, 2010
Helsinki

     
 

 

 

NCDE papers
Please notice that there aren't printed papers on the conference. If guests want to print papers that should be done by themselves.
 

Papers Friday

Keynote Lecture
Luc Soete
(UNU-MERIT)

SESSION 1: FINANCE

Marc Hofstetter (Universidad de Los Andes)
Credit Constraints, the Business Cycle and Firm Dynamics in Colombia
Annabel Vanroose (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Microfinance Institutions and Financial Sector Development and Table 6
Ashim Kumar Kar (Hanken School of Economics)
Outreach and Performance: How Microfinance Institutions Do

SESSION 2: HEALTH

Pablo Selaya (University of Copenhagen)
Eye Disease and Development
Tapio Palokangas (HECER and IZA)
Demographic and Economic Consequences of the Post-war Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Dick Durevall (University of Gothenburg)
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi

SESSION 3: TRADE

Janne Niemi (Government Institute for Economic Research)
Habit persistence and structure of food imports – a cross-country expenditure system
Svetlana Ledyaeva
(Aalto University)
Location choice of Chinese, Japanese and the US FDI in Russia: Do cross-country agglomeration effects matter?
Alisa DiCaprio and Amelia Santos-Paulino (UNU-WIDER)
Trade Agreements and Economic Vulnerability: Can North-South agreements improve resilience?

SESSION 4: INEQUALITY

Mazhar Mughal (Université de Pau et des Pays de, l'Adour)
Impact of Remittances on Inequality and Poverty: Macro and micro-evidence from Pakistan
Ankush Agrawal (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)
Matthew Effect’ or ‘Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns’? Intra-country Evidence on Convergence in Health Outcomes from India
Pertti Haaparanta (Aalto University)
TBA


SESSION 5: HOUSEHOLD AND NETWORKS (Economicum, Room 3-4, 1st floor)

Marit Widman (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Intra-household bargaining power and child nutritional status in Madagascar (abstract)
Magnus Hatlebakk (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
The role of caste and local social networks in getting jobs in external labor markets
Heidi Hogset (Molde University College)
Are Farmers' Informal Crops Marketing Groups Susceptible to Capture by Corrupt Elites?

SESSION 6: CHILD LABOUR (Economicum, Lecture room, 2nd floor)

Julia Anna Matz (Trinity College, Dublin University)
Spousal Access to Land Rights and Children’s Outcomes – Evidence from Vietnam
Elin Vimefall (Örebro University)
What determine which children are working? Empirical evidence from Kenya
Falko Tabbert (Leibniz-University of Hannover)
Enrolment of potential childminders: schooling decisions and unregulated fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
 

Papers Saturday

SESSION 7: SCHOOLING

Ivar Kolstad (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Education, health and entrepreneurship
Outi Korkeala (University of Sussex)
Waiting for the rains: Delayed monsoon onset, schooling and child labour in rural Indonesia
Måns Nerman (University of Gothenburg)
Tanzanian Demand for Education in the new Millennium Evidence from Two Household Surveys

SESSION 8: POLITICS

Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg)
Political participation in Africa: Participatory inequalities and the role of resources
(updated June 16)
Pelle Ahlerup
(University of Gothenburg)
Earthquakes and Civil War
Abdirashid Ismail (Hanken School of Economics)
The Political Economy of State Collapse: A Social Contract Approach

SESSION 9: GLOBALISATION

Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)
Land certification and international migration: evidence from Mexico
Andreas Bergh and Therese Nilsson (Lund University and the Ratio Institute)
Globalization and poverty reduction – a panel data study
Wasseem Mina (United Arab Emirates University)
Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to MENA Region: Is Debate Relevant?

SESSION 10: AID

Camelia Minoiu (International Monetary Fund)
Business cycle fluctuations and development aid: new evidence (updated June 16)
Alessia Isopi (University of Nottingham)
Determinants of Donor Funding to NGOs: Evidence from Uganda
Lei Pan (Development Economics Group, Wageningen University)
Transfers and Development – Easy Come, Easy Go?

SESSION 11: HAPPINESS AND FAIRNESS

Ida Lindkvist (Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Pro-social preferences and self-selection into the public health sector: Evidence from economic experiments
Yonas Alem (University of Gothenburg)
Subjective well-being and its determinants in urban Ethiopia
Eman Selim (Taibah University)
Time Series and Causality Analysis of Foreign Capital In Flows and Growth
to MENA Countries

SESSION 12: FARMING

Imed Drine (UNU-WIDER)
Climate change effects on Tanzanian crop yields: Evidences from spatial models
Anbes Tenaye (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Impacts and Implications of Agricultural Credit Use on Gross Farm Income in Southern Ethiopia
Nasima T. Chowdhury (Gothenburg University)
The Relative Efficiency of Hired and Family Labour in Bangladesh Agriculture

SESSION 13: MACRO

Mouyad Al Samara (University of Paris1-Panthéon-Sorbonne)
The Determinants of Real Exchange Rate Volatility in the Syrian Economy
Firew Bekele Woldeyes (Aarhus University)
Government Budgets and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Raul Chamorro-Narvaez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
The composition of public expenditure and economic growth in low – and middle – income countries

SESSION 14: CRIME AND CORRUPTION

Alexander Cotte Poveda (University of Göttingen, University of La Salle)
Violence and economic development in Colombian cities: A dynamic panel data analysis
Eva Kløve (University of Oslo)
Gang formation in South Africa: Crime and the market for protection
Tobias Dahlström (University of Gothenburg)
Globalisation and Corruption – The Transmission of Corrupt Behaviour
 

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