Sydney Development Economics Group
Our group connects Sydney-based researchers interested in development economics. We hold workshops three to four times a year that include presentations of recent research.
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Upcoming workshop
Date: Thursday, 30th March 2023
Time: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Location: Business Lounge, 6th floor, UNSW Business School
Program
2.00 - 2.05pm - Welcome & Introductory Remarks
2.05 - 2.35pm - Alice Calder (UNSW)
“Demand for political mobilization: Women’s suffrage and the American Civil
War”
2.35 - 3.05pm - Olukorede Abiona (Macquarie)
“Impact of mobile money on agricultural investments and household food security during drought shocks”
3.05 - 3.20pm - Esther Mirjam Girsberger (UTS) - Lightning talk
"Labour market expectations of young workers in Cote d'Ivoire".
3.20 - 3.50pm - Coffee Break
3.50 - 4.20pm - Pauline Grosjean (UNSW)
“War, partisanship, and polarization” (joint with Saumitra Jha, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou)
4.20 - 4.35pm - Russell Toth (USyd) - Lightning talk
“Increasing access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Vietnam”
4.35 - 4.50pm - Ashani Amarasinghe (USyd) - Lightning talk
“Partisan alignment, insurgency and public safety: Evidence from the Indian red-corridor” (joint with Pushkar Maitra and Yuchen Zhong)
4.50 - 5.00pm - Concluding Remarks
Past workshops
1 December 2022 - University of Sydney
Presentations
Gautam Bose (UNSW) : “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) : “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.
29 September 2022 - University of Sydney
Presentations
Ashani Amarasinghe (University of Sydney) presenting "Public Sentiment in Times of Terror"
Liwen Guo (UNSW Canberra) presenting "Environmental Policy and Gender Health Gap"
Fanghua Li (UNSW Sydney) presenting "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.
Organisers
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 (UNSW Sydney)
Kompal Sinha (Maquarie University)
Gautam Bose (UNSW Sydney)
Russell Toth (University of Sydney)
Sarah Walker (UNSW Sydney)