The workshop will be held at Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University. The keynote speaker is Professor Andreas Kotsadam from the Frisch Center.
The PhD student presentations will feature completed papers, work in progress, and early stage work.
The event is co-organized by Associate Professor Fenella Carpena together with OsloMet PhD students Balasurya Sivakumar and Workineh Mossie.
The organizers gratefully acknowledge OsloMet for seed funding for international cooperation.
Those interested in attending are invited to contact Fenella Carpena for further information.
Programme
Wednesday 5 November
Location: Pilestredet 52, Room B317
- 08:55: Welcome Remarks by Fenella Carpena, Oslo Metropolitan University
- 09:00: Keynote Talk by Andreas Kotsadam, Frisch Center
- 10:00: Coffee Break
- 10:15: «Buckets of Rain, Buckets of Tears? Rainfall Shocks and Intimate Partner Violence in India»
- Speaker: Katja Bergonzoli, HEC Lausanne
- Discussant: Workineh Mosie, OsloMet
- 11:15: Coffee Break
- 11:30: «The impacts of compound extreme weather events on household food security in the Philippines»
- Speaker: Jessie Schleypen, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Discussant: Lin Ma, CICERO
- 12:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30: «Make it Rain: The Downwind Benefits of Irrigation in India
- Speaker: Mathilde Degois, ENS Université Paris-Saclay
- Discussant: Daniel Lerner, NMBU
- 14:30: Coffee Break
- 14:45: «Coal Power Expansion and Long-Term Human Capital in India»
- Speaker: Balasurya Sivakumar, OsloMet
- Discussant: Sameer Malik, BI Norwegian Business School
- 15:45: Coffee Break
- 16:00: «Age of Consent and Child Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa»
- Speaker: Fadhil Nadhif Muharam, Stockholm School of Economics
- Discussant: Andreas Kotsadam, Frisch Centre
- 18:30: Dinner, location TBD
Thursday 6 November
Location: Pilestredet 35, Room PI259
- 09:00: «Heat, Labor Share and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India»
- Speaker: Garima Jasuja, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Discussant: Alfred Løvgren, University of Oslo
- 10:00: Coffee Break
- 10:15: «Deskilling in Germany? An Inquiry in the German Industrial Revolution»
- Speaker: Mridhula Mohan, Gottingen
- Discussant: Balasurya Sivakumar, OsloMet
- 11:15: Brunch
- 12:00: «Banking on Biodiversity: Impact of community seed banks (CSBs) on farmer welfare and resilience to environmental shocks»
- Speaker: Stefano Tarroni, Gothenburg
- Discussant: Giacomo Seravalli, Siena
- 13:00: Coffee Break
- 13:15–14:15: «Aid, Conflict and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa»
- Speaker: Workineh Mosie, OsloMet
- Discussant: Fenella Carpena, OsloMet
