Sydney Development Economics Group
Sydney Development Economics Group
Our group connects Sydney-based researchers interested in development economics. We hold workshops that include presentations of recent research and tutorials with practical advice.
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Our next workshop will take place during the Spring term (September/October). More details about the workshop will be posted at a later stage. If you'd like to be informed about our next activities, please join our mailing list.
On 5 and 6 June, UNSW will host the Australasian Development Economics Workshop (ADEW). Many of us will be there. More information about the workshop can be found here.
Presentations
Ieda Matavelli (UNSW): Expected Discrimination and Job Search
Emilia Tjernstrom (Monash): Selection and Heterogeneity in the Returns to Migration
Lightning talks
Adeline Delavande (UTS): Narratives about the HIV epidemic in Malawi
Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW): Building a Technical Labor Force in Indonesia
Organised and hosted by Esther Mirjam Girsberger.
Presentations
Nyamdavaa Byambadorj (Macquarie) : Estimating Price Elasticity of Demand for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Mongolia using a Censored QUAIDS Approach
Ieda Matavelli (UNSW): We Don’t Talk About Boys: An Experiment on Masculinity Norms in Brazil
Darian Naidoo (World Bank): Benchmarking Welfare Outcomes in Papua New Guinea
Adeline Delavande (UTS): HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children
Practical tips
Kompal Sinha (Macquarie) on ARC processes
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney) on Challenges of conducting field experiments in developing country settings
Organised and hosted by Kompal Sinha.
Presentations
Matthew Olckers (UNSW Sydney) : Digital Cash Transfers Can Accelerate the Adoption and Sustained Use of Mobile Money
Ali Vergili (UTS): Failure to Adopt International Laws: Exploring the Impact of the Child Rights Act in Nigeria
Tung Dang (University of Sydney): Household Resources and Investments in Children's Higher Education: The Role of Intra-Household Bargaining
Adeline Delavande (UTS): HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children
Tutorials
Russel Toth (University of Sydney) : Funding opportunities for development economics researchers in Australia
Lightning Talks
Partha Gangopadhyay (Western Sydney University): Tax Capacity and Tax Efforts in the ACI Nations: Historical Evidence of Efficiency Effects from a New Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model
Organised and hosted by by Esther Mirjam Girsberger.
Presentations
Alice Calder (UNSW Sydney) : “Demand for political mobilization: Women’s suffrage and the American Civil War”
Olukorede Abiona (Macquarie University) : “Impact of mobile money on agricultural investments and household food security during drought shocks”
Pauline Grosjean (UNSW Sydney) : “War, partisanship, and polarization”
Lightning Talks
Esther Mirjam Girsberger (UTS) : “Labour market expectations of young workers in Cote d'Ivoire”
Russell Toth (University of Sydney) : “Increasing access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Vietnam”
Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney) : “Partisan alignment, insurgency and public safety: Evidence from the Indian red-corridor
Organised by Ashani Amarasinghe and hosted by Fanghua Li and Gautam Bose.
Presentations
Gautam Bose (UNSW Sydney) : “Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, or Just Tax the Rich? Development, Efficiency, and the Pursuit of Equity” (joint with Arghya Ghosh)
Esther Mirjam Girsberger (UTS) : “The puzzle of educated unemployment in West Africa” (joint with Romuald Meango)
Yuna Liang (IPA) : Guest Speaker
Ali Yasin Vergili (UTS) : “Infant Mortality Expectation and Fertility Choice” (joint with Adeline Delavande and Hans-Peter Kohler)
Fanghua Li (UNSW Sydney) : “Heterogeneous effects of cash transfer on employment and earnings in developing regions: Evidence from the rural welfare system in China”
Organised by Ashani Amarasinghe and hosted by Shyamal Chowdhury.
Presentations
Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney) "Public Sentiment in Times of Terror"
Liwen Guo (UNSW Canberra) "Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap"
Fanghua Li (UNSW Sydney) "Local Elite Capture in Welfare Allocation: Evidence from a quasi-experiment of village relocation in rural China"
Organised by Matthew Olckers and hosted by Shyamal Chowdhury.
We have organised workshops since 2019 thanks to contributions from the following researchers:
Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney)
Adeline Delavande (UTS)
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney)
Esther Mirjam Girsberger (UTS)
Fanghua Li (UNSW Sydney)
Matthew Olckers (Maquarie University)
Kompal Sinha (Maquarie University)
Gautam Bose (UNSW Sydney)
Russell Toth (University of Sydney)
Sarah Walker (UNSW Sydney)