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CSAE Conference 2019 Blog
CSAE Conference Day 2: A few thoughts on culture One of the things about the CSAE conference is that everyone’s experience of it is quite different. With so many parallel sessions, each participant takes an idiosyncratic walk through a forest … Continue reading
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CSAE Conference 2019 Blog
CSAE Conference Day 1: The sceptics guide to innovation and AI Apparently, sufficiently large gatherings of development economists can generate freak weather occurrences (n=2). Last year the CSAE conference was held in a freak patch of sunshine sandwiched by the … Continue reading
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Who’s optimizing what, now?
As a horde of tired and wired academics prepare to converge on Stefan and Pramila’s (I feel like this has to instrument for something) this evening, I’m using what little is left of my brain to think about some of … Continue reading
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Bring your whole toolbox, and kill your priors
I’m a DFID economist, working out of a public policy school, so Rachel Glennerster’s superb keynote presentation was like catnip to me. She talked about turning research into policy impact, a production function of sorts that remains something of a … Continue reading
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Optimists, pessimists and speeches disguised as questions
Academic conferences are strange events: a gathering of intelligent and well-informed people, each of whom is either engaged in or expecting to be engaged in serious research pushing the frontiers of human knowledge, who struggle to ask questions in fewer … Continue reading
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Save the date for next year’s CSAE Conference: 18-20 March 2018!
This year’s CSAE Conference was a great success, with more than 445 participants from over 35 countries, 109 sessions (with three plenary sessions) and 335 papers presented. We are therefore glad to already announce next year’s edition, which will take place from … Continue reading
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The latest on Firms: More on the (missing?) missing middle debate, firms re-visited ten years later and does non-cognitive skills training encourage entrepreneurship?
Firms were a popular topic at the CSAE Conference. While two years ago there were only four sessions dedicated to firms, this year there were a solid seven sessions dedicated to firms (overtaking Labour!). In our last round-up blog on … Continue reading
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Tagged Benin, Firm size distribution, Firms, Ghana, Identity, Missing middle, OxCSAE2017, Taxation, Togo
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Households and networks: Will your friend’s job search get you a job? Does land title registration work?
More fresh papers from the CSAE Conference! Elwyn Davies, Viviana Perego, Emma Riley and Marc Witte give an overview of a selection papers on networks, households and gender. Are there spillovers from your friend’s job search? Does the language you speak matter … Continue reading
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The future of donor agencies in Africa: an open and honest debate
The final plenary at this year’s CSAE conference asked about ‘The future of donor agencies in Africa, and was chaired by Stefan Dercon (CSAE director, University of Oxford). The participants were Lindy Cameron (Director General, DFID), Albert Engel (Internal Director … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Climate change, Development, DfID, GIZ, OxCSAE2017, Oxfam
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Does exposure to wartime sexual violence create domestic violence? The latest research on intimate partner violence
In analyses of violence, domestic violence is often neglected, even though it is one of the most common forms of violence, as was argued by Anke Hoeffler earlier on our blog. At the CSAE Conference several papers were presented looking … Continue reading
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