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, 14th September 2023
Time: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Location: UTS Business School, CB08.04.011 (level 4, room 011)
Registration: To help with catering, please email Esther Mirjam until Monday, 11 September if you plan to attend.
(But feel free to come along even if you didn't sign up.)
Programme:
2:00-2:10: Coffee break and Welcome
2:10-2:40: "Digital Cash Transfers Can Accelerate the Adoption and Sustained Use of Mobile Money" (Matthew Olckers, UNSW)
2:40-3:10: "Failure to Adopt International Laws: Exploring the Impact of the Child Rights Act in Nigeria" (Ali Vergili, UTS)
3:10-3:25: Funding opportunities for development economics researchers in Australia (Russell Toth, University of Sydney)
Coffee Break
3:45-4:00: Lightning talk: "Tax Capacity and Tax Efforts in the ACI Nations: Historical Evidence of Efficiency Effects from a New Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model" (Partha Gangopadhyay, Western Sydney University)
4:00-4.30: "Household Resources and Investments in Children's Higher Education: The Role of Intra-Household Bargaining" (Tung Dang, University of Sydney)
4:30-5:00: "HeforShe: Bargaining Power, Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children" (Adeline Delavande, UTS)
5:00: Concluding remarks
Organised and hosted by Esther Mirjam Girsberger at UTS Business School.
Past workshops
30 March 2022 - UNSW Sydney
Presentations
Alice Calder (UNSW) : “Demand for political mobilization: Women’s suffrage and the American Civil War”
Olukorede Abiona (Macquarie) : “Impact of mobile money on agricultural investments and household food security during drought shocks”
Pauline Grosjean (UNSW) : “War, partisanship, and polarization” (joint with Saumitra Jha, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou)
Lightning Talks
Esther Mirjam Girsberger (UTS) : “Labour market expectations of young workers in Cote d'Ivoire”
Russell Toth (USyd) : “Increasing access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Vietnam”
Ashani Amarasinghe (USyd) : “Partisan alignment, insurgency and public safety: Evidence from the Indian red-corridor (joint with Pushkar Maitra and Yuchen Zhong)
Organised by Ashani Amarasinghe and hosted by Fanghua Li and Gautam Bose.
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) "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.
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)