Marie Boltz, Ph.D from the Paris School of Economics and current Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Namur, presented at the NCID her paper “Income Hiding and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Senegal”, which "uniquely combines a lab-in-the field and a small scale randomized controlled trial”, explained Marie Boltz.
The paper aims to analyze the hidden cost of informal redistribution in economies where people heavily rely on their social networks an...
On September 6th, 2015 elections in Guatemala took place for the presidency, congress, representatives and municipalities. The presidential elections coincided with congressional and municipal elections after the previous president, retired-general Otto Pérez Molina, stepped down from office due to protests against his administration and eventual imprisonment, along with vice president Roxana Baldetti. President and vice president were found guilty of corruption in “La Linea” lawsuit. Actor James Ernesto Morales Cabrera, best known as Jimmy Morales, won the...
Yannick Dupraz from the Paris School of Economics presented his paper “French and British Colonial Legacies in Education: A Natural Experiment in Cameroon” at the University of Navarra, a seminar organized by the Navarra Center for International Development.
As Yannick explained in the beginning of the presentation, both countries, France and England presented clear differences in their approach to colonization. According t...