Presentations and Reports

Presentations

Videos, podcast, slides, and transcripts of iiG presentations made around the world.

Can farmers create efficient information networks?

Stefano Caria and Marcel Fafchamps

Presented by Stefano Caria at Barcelona GSE Summer Forum

20 June 2015

The future of research on institutions and development

Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps and Mthuli Ncube

Presented by Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps and Mthuli Ncube

iiG Conference 2015, Oxford, UK, 21 March 2015

Formal insurance and transfer motives in informal risk-sharing groups: Experimental evidence from iddir in rural Ethiopia

Karlijn Morsink

Presented by Karlijn Morsink at iiG Conference 2015, Oxford, UK

21 March 2015

Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

Presented by Markus Goldstein at CSAE Seminar Series, Oxford, UK

18 November 2014

When Do Voters Sanction Violence? A Vignette Experiment in Kenya

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero and Adrienne Lebas

PSA, Washington D.C,

28 August 2014

Taxation and Accountability in Lagos: Presentation to the Lagos State Government, Panel Survey Part 3

Nic Cheeseman

Presented by Nic Cheeseman at Lagos State Government Cabinet Meeting, to Governor and Commissioners

22 July 2014

Public Works, Local Democratic Institutions and Climate Smart Agriculture: Lessons from India

D Rajasekhar, Erlend Berg, Manjula Ramachandra

Presented by D Rajasekhar at CSAE Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford

March 23-25, 2014.

Raising Review, reducing poverty, and boosting accountability in Lagos

Nic Cheeseman

Presented by Nic Cheeseman at OXFAM HQ, Oxford, to OXFAM International staff and researchers

3 December 2013

Taxation and Accountability in Lagos: Presentation to the Lagos State Government, Panel Survey Part 1

Nic Cheeseman

Presented by Nic Cheeseman at Lagos State Government Cabinet Meeting, to Governor and Commissioners

29 October 2013

Taxation and Accountability in Lagos: Presentation to the Lagos State Government, Panel Survey Part 2

Nic Cheeseman

Presented by Nic Cheeseman at Lagos State Government Cabinet Meeting, to Governor and Commissioners

15 December 2013

Talking to Ghosts: Quantifying Forged Employment Records in MGNREG

D. Rajasekhar, Erlend Berg and R. Manjula

Presented by D. Rajasekhar CMDR, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

9 October 2013

Oriana Bandiera, Markus Goldstein, Robin Burgess, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman

Girl power: Evidence from training programs for young women

Presented by Shubha Chakravarty at 'Quality Education, Skills and Productivity Among Youth in Africa: Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop'. Dakar, Senegal

30 September - 4 October 2013

Providing Entrepreneurship Skills to Adolescent Girls in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera, Markus Goldstein, Robin Burgess, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman

Presented by Niklas Buehren at 'Female Entrepreneurship: Obstacles, Innovative Interventions and Impacts' World Bank in Washington D.C.

23 April 2013.

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera, Markus Goldstein, Robin Burgess, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman

Presented by Niklas Buehren at CSAE Annual Conference 2013

Expropriation and investment in Ethiopia

Anthony Harris

Presented at CSAE Annual Conference 2013 Oxford, UK

March 2013

Randomised Controlled Trials and Programme Evaluations: Experiences and Lessons

D. Rajasekhar, Erlend Berg, R. Manjula

Presented by D Rajasekhar, Seminar on 'Knowing the Social World: Challenges and Responses', Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India

13-15 March 2013

Can Rural Public Works Affect Agricultural Wages? Evidence from India

Erlend Berg, Sambit Bhattacharyya, Rajasekhar Durgam and Manjula Ramachandra

Presented by Sambit Bhattacharya at '7th IZA/World Bank Conference: Employment and Development', New Dehli, India

4-6 November 2012

Building the Social Contract: Taxation in Urban Nigeria

Cristina Bodea and Adrienne LeBas

Presented at iiG workshop "Improving revenue generation through taxation in Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

9th October 2012

NREGS, Gram Panchayats and Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture: Evidence from South India

D Rajasekhar, Erlend Berg and R. Manjula

Presented at the PRi/CCAFS Workshop on Institutions for Inclusive Climate-Smart Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya

10-13 September 2012

 

 

Management and motivation in Ugandan primary schools Evidence from a field experiment

CSAE and EPRC presentation to DFID

23 May 2011

Is Information Power? Using Cell Phones During an Election in Mozambique

Jenny Aker, Paul Collier, Pedro Vicente

Presented at School of Business and Economics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

20 May 2011

Reputation in Export markets: Implications for Firms, Capabilities and Policy

Rocco Macchiavello

Presented by Rocco Macchiavello at BRAC/IGC/iiG Conference on Entrepreneurship and Development

27 March 2011

Access and Quality in Kenyan Education

Presented to DFID on 23 March 2011

Primary Health Care Centres in India

Erlend Berg, Manjula Ramachandra, Rajasekhar Durgam and Sanchari Roy

Presented at iiG Workshop, Oxford

19 March 2011

Service Delivery and Corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)

Erlend Berg, R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar

Presented at iiG workshop, Oxford

19 March 2011

Delivery of Public Policy: Models, Experiments, & Policy

Maitreesh Ghatak

Presented by Maitreesh Ghatak at IGC Bihar Growth Conference, Patna

17-18 December 2010

Labor tying and poverty in rural economy: Evidence from Bangladesh

Selim Gulesci

Presented by Selim Gulesci at The Institute for Fiscal Studies, EdePo Workshop

17 November 2010

Can Entrepreneurship Programs Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

Presented by Oriana Bandiera at IGC Growth Week, International Growth Centre, London

22 September 2010

Household level graduation strategies: Experience from Bangladesh

Imran Matin and Munshi Sulaiman

Presented by Imran Matin at CPRC International Conference, Manchester

9 September 2010

Roll-out of RSBY in Karnataka: Status and Issues

Erlend Berg, Maitreesh Ghatak, Manjula Ramachandra, Rajasekhar Durgam and Sanchari Roy

Presented by D Rajasekhar at iiG Workshop: Policies for Inclusion in India and Beyond

3 September 2010

Graduation models for the extreme poor: evidence from BRACs programmes in Bangladesh and southern Sudan

Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman

Presented at iiG Workshop: Policies for Inclusion in India and Beyond

3 September 2010
 

Empowering Women: Inheritance Rights and Female Education in India

Sanchari Roy

Presented by Sanchari Roy at iiG Workshop: Policies for Inclusion in India and Beyond

3 September 2010

Graduation models for the extreme poor: evidence from a food assistance programme in Juba

Imran Matin, Munshi Sulaiman

Presented at Policy workshop by BRAC Sudan and World Bank

5 August 2010

Pillars of Prosperity: State Capacity in Economic Development part 1

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson at 2010 Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Helsinki,

14 Jun 2010

Pillars of Prosperity: State Capacity in Economic Development part 2

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson at 2010 Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Helsinki

15 June 2010

Pillars of Prosperity: State Capacity in Economic Development part 3

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson at 2010 Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Helsinki

15 June 2010

Pillars of Prosperity: State Capacity in Economic Development part 4

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson at 2010 Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, Helsinki

16 June 2010

Ethnicity Meets Politics: One Hundred Years of Road Building in Kenya

Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel and Ameet Morjaria

Presented by Robin Burgess and Remi Jedwab at CEPR Development Economics Symposium, Stockholm

2 June 2010

Our Turn To Eat: The Political Economy of Roads in Kenya

Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel, and Ameet Morjaria

Public Economics UK 10 (PEUK 10), University of Warwick

28 May 2010

Fiscal Capacity and Economic Development

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Tim Besley at Political Economy of Economic Development Conference, Barcelona

30 April 2010
 

Understanding State Capacity

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Tim Besley at Yan Fu Memorial Lecture at the Chinese Institute for Economic Research Beijing

17 March 2010

Weather and Death: Public Policy Challenges for South Asia

Robin Burgess, Olivier Deschenes, Dave Donaldson, and Michael Greenstone

Presented at Silver Jubilee Annual General Meeting and Conference, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

March 2010

Dictator games in the lab and in nature: Evidence of external validity from Ugandan primary schools

Abigail Barr and Andrew Zeitlin

Presentation at Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, Nottingham University

March 2010

Empowering Women: Inheritance Rights and Female Education in India

Sanchari Roy

EC501 Work-in-Progress Seminar, LSE

23 February 2010

How Does Trade Openness Affect Real Income Volatility? Evidence from India's Famine Era

Robin Burgess and Dave Donaldson

Presented at American Economic Association in Atlanta

January 2010

State Capacity, Conflict and Development

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Torsten Persson at 2010 Agnar Sandmo Lecture, NHH Bergen

11 January 2010

Community Networks and Poverty Reduction Programmes: Evidence from Bangladesh

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Selim Gulesci and Imran Rasul

Presented at 2010 AEA Conference, Atlanta (session on Trade and Climate Change)

4 January 2010

Revising the poverty line in India by including health expenditure by the poor

Rajasekhar Durgam

iiG Workshop: 'Institutional Aspects of Pro-Poor Policy: Revising the Indian Poverty Line', ISEC, Bangalore

December 2009

Willingness to Pay for Clean Water

James Berry, Greg Fischer, Raymond Guiteras

Presented at IGC Environmental Program Meeting

5 December 2009

Aspirations failure and Well-Being outcomes in Ethiopia: towards an empirical analysis

Stefan Dercon, Tanguy Bernard, Alemayu Taffesse

Presented at 'Aspirations and Poverty', An interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Warwick, UK

14-15 December 2009

Cyclone damage & agriculture in India: Income Smoothing, Risk Diversification and Cyclone Damage in India

Stefanie Sieber

Ec501 seminar series LSE

October 2009

Intervention to improve management and local accountability in public primary schools: Measure for progress

Justin Sandefur

Presented at iiG Workshop: 'Improving Management and Accountability in Primary Schools'

2 October 2009

Management and motivation in Ugandan Primary Schools

Madina Guloba, Frederick Mugisha and Andrew Zeitlin

Presented at iiG Workshop: 'Improving Management and Accountability in Primary Schools'

2 October 2009

BRAC’s Adolescent Development Programme in Uganda and Tanzania

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Chandra Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, Abebual Zerihun

Presentation at CEPR/ESF Workshop on Micro-Finance and Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford

2 June 2009

The Value of Relational Contracts: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Flower Exporters

Rocco Macchiavello & Ameet Morjaria

NEUDC Conference, Tufts University, USA

November 2009

Repression or Civil War?

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented at 'The challenges of fragility to development policy', Conference of the European Report on Development, Barcelona, Spain

7-8 May 2009

Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications for Climate Change

Robin Burgess, Olivier Deschenes, Dave Donaldson and Michael Greenstone

Presentation at NYU

5 May 2009

The Political Economy of State Capacity

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Tim Besley at 16th Barcelona Economics Lecture Series

21 April 2009

Kenyan Flower Exports during the Violence: a Quantitative Assessment

Christopher Ksoll, Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria

Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya

April 2009

Free Primary Education in Kenya: Enrolment, Achievement and Local Accountability

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur

CSAE Conference 2009

23 March 2009

Information and Health Care: A Randomized Experiment in India

Erlend Berg, Maitreesh Ghatak, R Manjula, D Rajasekhar, Sanchari Roy

iiG Workshop, Oxford University 
21 March 2009

Dictator games in the lab and in nature: Evidence of external validity from Ugandan primary schools

Abigail Barr and Andrew Zeitlin

Presentation at CSAE Conference, March 2009

The Election Process in Nigeria: Candidate Selection, Finance and Outcomes

Okunade Bayo

iiG workshop, Oxford University 21 March 2009

Evaluating the award of Certificates of Right of Occupancy in urban Tanzania

Jonathan Conning, Klaus Deininger, Justin Sandefur, Andrew Zeitlin

Methodology workshop Impact evaluation of land-related projects, World Bank

5 March 2009

Who's Turn to Eat? The Political Economy of Roads in Kenya

Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab , Edward Miguel and Ameet Morjaria

World Bank Infrastructure and Economic Development Conference, Toulouse, France

14 January 2009

The Determinants of Academic Performance under FPE

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, and Justin Sandefur

Presentation to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Government of Kenya

November 2008

Education interventions in Africa

Tessa Bold and Andrew Zeitlin

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008.

Female Empowerment through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India

Sanchari Roy

Second Riccardo Faini Doctoral Conference on Development Economics, University of Milan, Italy

7-9 September 2008

The future of democracy in Kenya

Paul Collier

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008

The future of democracy in Kenya (2)

Paul Collier

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008
 

Causes and Effects of Kenyan Post-electoral violence

Stefan Dercon

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008.

Post-election violence and recovery

Stefan Dercon

iiG workshop, iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya
September 2008

Post-election perceptions about conflict and coalition government

Mwangi Kimenyi and Roxana Guttierez Romero

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008

Voting in Kenya: Identity, Grievance, Trust and Class

Mwangi Kimenyi and Roxana Guttierez Romero

iiG Workshop for Kenyan Members of Parliament, Nairobi, Kenya

September 2008

Railroads and the Raj: The Economic Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

David Donaldson

Presented at 'Economic Change Around the Indian Ocean in the Very Long Run' Conference, University of Warwick in Venice

22-24 July 2008

Improving Institutions to foster local accountability in Ugandan primary schools: A randomised controlled trial

Madina Guloba, Lawrence Bategeka and Andrew Zeitlin

Presented 06 May 2008

The Economics of State Capacity: Strong states and weak states

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley at Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008, Johns Hopkins University

15 April 2008

The Economics of State Capacity: Dynamics of state formation – fiscal and legal capacity

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Presented by Timothy Besley at Richard Ely Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-2008, Johns Hopkins University

14 April 2008

Aspirations Failure and Well-Being Outcomes in Ethiopia: Towards and Empirical Exploration

Tanguay Bernard, Alemayehu Seyoum Tafesse, and Stefan Dercon

iiG Workshop, Oxford University

21 March 2008

4 ways to improve the lives of the 'bottom billion'

Paul Collier

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)

2008

Collier on the Bottom Billion

Paul Collier

Podcast, Library of Economics and Liberty

2008

The Bottom Billion

Paul Collier

Carnegie Council

2008

The Divergence of the Bottom Billion

Paul Collier

DESTIN and STICERD public lecture, abstract and podcast

October 2007

Reports

Management and motivation in Ugandan primary schools: Impact evaluation final report

EPRC, Uganda and CSAE, University of Oxford, UK

Draft, October 2011

Timap Criminal Justice Pilot,

Draft Baseline Evaluation Report, Submitted to the Open Society Justice Initiative

May 2010

Pathways Out of Extreme Poverty

Findings from round I survey of CFPR phase II

Baseline report on Food distribution, skill development, and financial services: An evaluation of BRAC South Sudan’s FFTIG program

Looking for Justice: Liberian Experiences with and Perceptions of Local Justice Options

Deborah H. Isser, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Saah N'Tow, with Adeo Addison, Johnny Ndebe, George Saye, Tim Luccaro

Including contributions and quantitative analysis from Bilal Siddiqi and Justin Sandefur

November 2009 Peaceworks

Management and motivation in Ugandan primary schools: Report on baseline survey

EPRC, Uganda and CSAE, University of Oxford, UK

Final version May, 2010