LICOS Seminars Fall 2011
October 11: Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University): How Persistent is Social Capital?
October 19: Plamen Nikolov (Harvard University): Does AIDS Treatement Stimulate Negative
Behavioral Response? A Field Experiment in South Africa.
October 25: Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University): Land Reform and its Distributional Implications:
the Case of Georgia.
November 8: Joseph Flavian Gomes (Carlos III University): The Political Economy of the
Maoist Conflict in India: An Empirical Analysis.
November 15: Ali Merima (Wageningen University): Farm household's entry and exit into and
from non-farm enterprises in rural Ethiopia: Does clustering play a role?
November 23: Harry de Gorter (Cornell University): The effect of biofuel policies on food grain
prices.
November 29: Olaf De Groot (DIW Berlin): Gov-aargh-nance – even criminals need law and
order.
December 8: Mara Squicciarini (LICOS): Brain Deficit: How Corruption Keeps Skilled People
Away.
December 15: Ting Jiang (LICOS): Other-Regarding Preferences, In-Group Bias and
Corruption.
December 2: Jean-François Maystadt (IFPRI): Inequality and Poverty in a Refugee-Hosting
economy: a Natural Experiment