The objective of the EAAE PhD Workshop is to give PhD students from different Countries the opportunity to present their research in a conference setting and to get feedback from peers and senior economists. Proposals are welcome in the areas of agricultural, environmental, food and development...

DAY 1 - Sessions 1: - Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh; - The Sustainable Quality Program in the Colombia Coffee Chain; - Motivating Farmer Trainers. Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda; - An Aspiring Friend Is a Friend Indeed: School Peers and...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

The workshop, organized within the 20th ICABR Conference, will bring together academics and development practitioners on issues related to international development. Topics: - Agricultural transformation and rural development; - Entrepreneurship and private sector development; - Development and...

The original intention behind the ‘Doha Round’ of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was to promote the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. The collapse of the round in 2008 led to pessimism over whether the pursuit of such a ‘development-based’ agenda is...

Weighing the shadow of history on contemporary economic performance occupies an increasing part of the agenda among growth and development economists. This series of lectures will focus on recent contributions in the literature of the historical determinants of comparative development paying...

The workshop welcomes submissions by PhD students at any stage of their PhD, as well as students who complete their PhD in 2015. There will be two types of contributions: contributed papers and posters presentation. Proposals are welcome in the areas of agricultural, environmental, food and...

The RCEA welcomes submissions for the contributed sessions. The workshop organizers plan to run a full set of parallel sessions on Growth and Development Economics. Papers in all areas of Growth and Development Economics are welcome.

Topics: - Mismatch of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market; - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor productivity; - The evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the life cycle; - Policy interventions and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

In the past 200 years, the world has experienced unprecedented economic development as well as profound demographic changes. Many dimensions of these dynamic processes are not well understood. What are the underlying forces behind the different dimensions of economic and demographic development,...