2017
external page 12th Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare
"Measures of horizontal inequality in developing countries"
January 8-9
University of Verona
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
external page Economics Research Seminar University Hannover
"Financial Distress in Micro-Borrowers: Overindebtedness or a symptom of poverty?"
January 25
University Hannover
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page Political Economy of International Organizations
"He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: Credit Rating Agencies and Multilateral Development Banks"
January 12-14
University of Bern
Dr. Christopher Strong Humphrey
external page International Population, Health and Development Lunch Spring 2017
"Modeling Child Mortality through Multilevel Structured Additive Regression with Varying Coefficients for Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa"
February 10
Duke University
Dr. Kenneth Harttgen
external page Tufts Energy Conference
"Panel: Distributed Energy Solutions Driving Electrificatoin
February 11"
Tufts University
Yael Borofsky
external page Development Lunch Seminar UC Berkeley
"Adoption and Impact of Solar Lighting : A Randomized Field Experiment in Rural Kenya"
February 14
University of California Berkeley
Adina Rom
Science and Development Forum - Mathematical and Data Sciences for Development
"Data for Poverty Analysis and Policy Evaluation in Developing Countries"
March 1
ETH Zürich
Dr. Kenneth Harttgen
external page CENTER FOR CHILD WELL-BEING AND DEVELOPMENT, Annual Conference 2017
"Lack of sanitation (toilets) in urban slums"
March 17-18
University Zürich
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page Conference on Economic Development in Africa (CSAE)
March 17-18
Oxford University
Joeri Smits
external page Finance and Development 2017
"Profits and Mission: Performance Incentives in a Multi-goal Development Organization"
May 4-5
DIW Berlin
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page The Demographic Dividend and Fertility Trends in sub-Saharan AfricaMay 11-12
University Paris
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page Conference of the Swiss Development Network, Annual Conference
May 11-12
University Fribourg
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page LWVCT 2017 Symposium on International Relations
"Off-grid electricity systems for areas with no grid access"
May 12
Yale University
Yael Borofsky
external page Dividende démographique et évolution de la fécondité en Afrique subsaharienne
May 12
INED Paris
Prof. Isabel Günther
MTEC PhD Seminar Series
"Adoption and Impact of Solar Lighting : A Randomized Field Experiment in Rural Kenya"
June 1
ETH Zurich
Adina Rom
external page VfS Development Economics Group
"The changing structure of Africa's Economies"
"Horizontal inequalities in Africa June 1-2"
June 1-2
University of Göttingen
Prof. Isabel Günther
Joeri Smits
Dr. Kenneth Harttgen
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
external page Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics (SSES)
"Microcredit, Financial Literacy and Household Financial Distress"
June 8-9
University Lausanne
Joeri Smits
external page Nordic Conference on Development Economics"Microcredit, Financial Literacy and Household Financial Distress"
June 12-13
University Goteborg
Joeri Smits
external page Lunch seminar at CERMi
"Microcredit, Financial Literacy and Household Financial Distress"
June 23
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Joeri Smits
external page European Peace Science Conference
June 22-24
University Antwerp
Joeri Smits
external page DIAL Conference on Development Economics
"Microcredit, Financial Literacy and Household Financial Distress"
June 27-28
University DIAL Paris
Joeri Smits
external page European Conference of African Studies - ECAS 2017
June 29 - july 1
Basel
Hervé Roquet
Selina Bezzola
external page UNU-WIDER Development Conference on Public Economics
"Measures of horizontal inequality in developing countries"
July 5-6
Maputo, Mozambique
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
Lunch seminar at Wageningen University
"Microcredit, Financial Literacy and Household Financial Distress"
July 6
University Wageningen
Joeri Smits
external page EADI Nordic Conference on Development Economics
"Inequality of opportunties in Africa"
August 20-23
University of Bergen
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
external page Trade and Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Conference
"Emerging Trends in International Development Finance"
August 28-31
Seychelles
Dr. Christopher Strong Humphrey
external page International Conference on Research for Development
"Financing for Poverty Reducation"
Septemeber 5-8
University Bern
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page PegNet
"Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa"
September 10-11
ETH Zurich
Prof. Isabel Günther
Adina Rom
Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah
external page R4D Conference
September
University Bern
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page Environment for Development Initiative
Adoption and Impact of Solar Lighting : A Randomized Field Experiment in Rural Kenya"
October 27-29
Environment and Climate Research Center (EfD - Ethiopia)
Adina Rom
ETH Science City - Abenteurer und Entdeckerinnen
"Trinkwasser für Benin"
October 29
ETH Zürich
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page NEUDC conference
November 5-6
MIT
Adina Rom
external page Economics Research Seminar Graduate Institute Geneva
"Solar lights addressing energy poverty and energy sustainability?"
November 9
Graduate Institute Geneva
Prof. Isabel Günther
external page Experimentelle Wirkungsevaluierung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Was haben wir gelernt und wie geht es weiter?
"Wie und unter welchen Bedingungen können experimentelle Evaluierungen zur Erhöhung der Wirksamkeit der EZ beitragen"
November 30
DEVAL Bonn
Prof. Isabel Günther
Experimental Economics Seminar
December 6-7
Uni Innsbruck
Dr. Laura Metzger