The Economics PhD conference is an annual event at which our PhD students give presentations to their fellow students and staff in the Department, often with guest speakers from other institutions.
Next conference: November 2013 (date TBC)
Past conferences
- 2011 conference
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The Department of Economics held its Third Economics Annual PhD Conference on 11 November 2011. Professor Francis Teal from Oxford attended the conference together with the faculty members from the Department.
Both Professor Teal and the faculty members gave critical, valuable comments and advises to the PhD students who presented their work. After the conference, Professor Teal remarked "I greatly enjoyed the conference and thought the standard of the presentations very high".
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Presentations
All conference presentations are available for download:
- Kalle Hirvonen
Risk Sharing and Migration [PDF 1.45MB] - Cora Mezger
Migration attempts - who tries, who succeeds, who fails? Evidence from Senegalese migration to Europe [PDF 291.45KB] - Antonio Martuscelli
Supply response, market participation and transaction costs: evidence from a Tanzanian panel [PDF 409.41KB] - Paola Salardi
The evolution of gender and racial occupational segregation in Brazil: Differences between formal and non-formal labour markets [PDF 396.57KB] - Chiara Cazzuffi
Choice of organisational form: A study of milk processing and marketing firms in three Italian provinces [PDF 331.05KB] - Marinella Leone
Education and conflict recovery: The case of Timor Leste [PDF 297.01KB] - Wei Loon Pang
The effects of Chinese prices on Mexican trade with the US [PDF 587.61KB] - Javier Lopez Gonzalez
The impact of Free Trade Agreements on Vertical Specialisation [PDF 1.53MB] - Francis Teal
The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa [PDF 1.60MB]
- Kalle Hirvonen
- 2010 conference
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The following papers were presented at the Department of Economics Annual PhD Conference, University of Sussex, 12 November 2010.
Programme
Presentations
All conference presentations are available for download:
- Outi Korkeala
Clearing the land for what? Evaluation of the Indonesian palm oil production expansion [PDF 452.70KB] - Marta Moratti
Consumption Poverty & Pro-Poor Growth in Bolivia (1999-2007) [PPT 640.00KB] - Francisco Gonzalez Carreras
Microfinance impact in India [PDF 604.68KB] - Marinella Leone
Shadow Wages and Child Labour Supply in Agricultural Households in Nepal [PDF 281.92KB] - Caio Piza
The Distributive Effects of Property Rights. How Does Land Title Affect Labour Supply? [PPT 4.73MB] - Edgar Cooke
The Impact of Trade Preferences on Exports on Developing Countries [PDF 622.68KB] - Emilie Perge
Welfare impacts from non timber forest products extraction in Cameroon [PDF 2.03MB] - Stefan Dercon
Migration and Well-being: evidence from Tanzania and India [PPT 749.00KB]
- Outi Korkeala
- 2009 conference
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The first Economics PhD conference (or DPhil conference as it was then known) was held on Friday 27 November 2009.
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