9H30introduction to the 5Th Development Conference of the Gretha

Thursday, June 19th 2013

9hWelcoming Participants

9h30Introduction to the 5th Development Conference of the GREThA

10h1st plenary session (Room 2N)

Augustin K. Fosu

University of Ghana – ISSER / UNU-WIDER

“The role of the State in economic development: An African perspective”

11h-11h30 Coffee break

11h30Parallel sessions 1, 2, 3

Session 1: Migration and Remittances (Room 1F)

Chair: Thomas Vendryes

-Remittances and Child Labor in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin (Lille Catholic University) with Olivier Bargain

-Remittances, corruption and channels of transmission: a simultaneous equations analysis

Nicolas Yol(GREThA, University of Bordeaux)

-How Do Consumption Patterns of Migrant Remittance Recipients And Non Recipients Compare? Evidence from Pakistan

Ahmed Junaid (Faculty of Economic Sciences, Georg-August Universität Göttingen) with Mazhar Mughal

Session 2: Child labour and education (Room 1K)

Chair: Jérôme Ballet

-Child Labor and Market Access: Identifying Excluded Households

Samia Badji(University of Cergy-Pontoise and ESSEC Business School)

-Koranic Schools in Senegal: A real barrier to formal education?

Jean-Luc Demonsant (CEPS / INSTEAD, Luxembourg) with Pierre André

-Education Langage choice and youth entrepreneurship in Chad

Thierry Yogo(CERDI, University of Auvergne, France) with Douzounet Mallaye, Blandine Nan-Guer Koulké, Benjamen Fomba Kamaga and Eurydice Tormal Gosngar

Session 3 (in French): Information asymmetries and governance (Room 1L)

Chair: Eric Berr

-L'analyse des offsets dans l'optique de la théorie de négociation

Cristina Buga(CREG, University Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble) with Pierre Berthaud

-Asymétries d'information, qualité et marché de la certification: la nécessité d'une intervention institutionnelle

Alain Herscovici (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil)

-La Micro-assurance agricole à base d'indices : raisons et conditions d'exercice au Niger

Ahamadou Maichanou(GREThA, University of Bordeaux)

13h00- 14h30Lunch

14h30-16h15Parallel sessions 4, 5, 6

Session 4: Labour migrations (Room 1J)

Chair: François Combarnous

-Labour mobility and the informal sector in Algeria: a cross-sectional comparison (2007-2012)

YoughourtaBellache(ERUDITE and University of Bejaia, Algeria) with Philippe Adair

-Internal Migration and Rural Development in China: A case study using the 2001 Hukou system reform

ThomasVendryes(Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne, ENS Cachan) with Marc Gurgand and Yue Ximing

-How US Migration Policies are Impacting Migration Flows: Lessons from the Mexico-USBorder

Maëlys De la Rupelle (Thema, University of Cergy-Pontoise) with Isabelle Chort

Session 5: Macroeconomic policies (Room 1K)

Chair: Augustin Fosu

-Multilateral Supervision Rules and Pro-cyclicality of the Fiscal Policy in CEMAC Zone

Jacques L. Bikai(Central Bank of Central Africa)

-Monetary Policy and the Impact of Sustainable Microfinance

Daniel Mueller(University of Basel and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

-Impact of government spending on inflation in Asian emerging economies: evidence from India, Vietnam and Indonesia

Tai Nguyen (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University)

-The sustainability of fiscal policy: evidence from a panel of Central and Latin American Countries

Matthieu Llorca(LEDi, University of Burgundy, France) with Christophe Ehrhart and Bio Elegbede

Session 6: Inequality (Room 1F)

Chair: Olivier Bargain

-Top Income mobility in Ecuador: New evidence from income tax data and household survey

Liliana Cano(LEREPS, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole)

-Religious Conflicts in India: does income inequality matter?

Victoire Girard (CES, University Paris 1 Sorbonne)

-Effect of inequality on growth with concern for relative deprivation

Ünay Tamgaç(TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey)

16h15-16h30Coffee break

16h30-18h00Parallel sessions 7, 8, 9

Session 7: Inequality and social inclusion (Room 1F)

Chair: Liam Wren-Lewis

-The political economy of inclusive rural growth

John Morrow(CEP, London School of Economics) with Michael L. Carter

-Moderate prosperity: An adaptation of middle class concept in Malagasy rural area

Tsiry Andrianampiarivo(GREThA, University of Bordeaux)

-Microfinance intensity's in reducing poverty and inequality in Africa: Is there something with good governance?

Komivi Afawubo(University of Lorraine)

Session 8: Industrialization policies (Room 1J)

Chair: Eric Rougier

-Reviving the industrial sector to sustain long term growth in Algeria : The need for a "catalytic" state

Baya Arhab(Faculty of Economics, University of Bejaïa)

-The pace of privatization in manufacturing sector, employment reallocation and job content of private sector expansion in Egypt

Mohamed Hassan(Department of Economics, Cairo University)

-Is small so beautiful? How smallness rots Algeria's economy

Mokhtar Kheladi(Faculty of Economics, University of Bejaïa)

Session 9 (in French): Natural resources and development (Room 1L)

Chair: André Meunié

-Décentralisation dans la gestion des déchets ménagers au Cameroun : cas de la ville de Bertoua

Thérèse F. Azeng(FSEG, University of Yaoundé) avec Essinga Sapok Alice Diane)

-Inequality in the access to water and sanitation services in Brazil : some empirical evidences from POF 2008/2009

Alexandre Berthe (GREThA, University of Bordeaux)

-Croissance, consommation d'électricité et émissions de CO2 dans le bassin méditerranéen

Fethi Ayachi(FSEG, SESAME University)with Maha Harbaoui Zrelli

Friday, June 20th 2013

9h30Parallel sessions 10, 11, 12

Session 10: Health and nutrition (Room 1F)

Chair: Claire Gondard-Delcroix

-Social class and body weight among Chinese urban adults: The role of the middle classes in the nutrition transition

Céline Bonnefond(GREThA, University of Bordeaux) with Matthieu Clément

-Birth weight and long-term outcomes in a developing country

Marie Baguet(THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise) with Christelle Dumas

-The causal effect of socioeconomic status on overnutrition: Evidence from urban Mexican adults

Pierre Levasseur (GREThA, University of Bordeaux and University of Grenada)

Session 11: Information and coordination (Room 1J)

Chair: John Morrow

-The credit behavior of households: A behavioral approach

Florian Wendelspiess Chávez Juárez (Department of Economics, University of Geneva)

-Relational Contracts and Corruption

Liam Wren-Lewis(Paris School of Economics, INRA; ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles) with Martha Troya-Martinez

-Peer effects in the adoption of property rights: experimental evidence from urban Tanzania

Matthew Collin(Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford)

Session 12 (in French): Socio-economic inequality (Room 1L)

Chair: Matthieu Clément

-Marché du travail et inégalités régionales au Brésil

Yves-André Fauré (IRD and Federal University of Ceara) with Cécilia Lustosa and François Combarnous

-Promotion des capacités dans le cadre des politiques économiques et sociales publiques

Jacques Poirot(BETA, University of Strasbourg) with Hubert Gérardin

-Ressources extractives et développement socio-économique du Niger : une analyse en équilibre général calculable

YoussoufouHamadou Daouda and Sangaré Alkassoum Saadatou (Université de Tahoua, Niger) with Mamane Boukari

11h-11h30Coffee break

11h302nd plenary session (Room 2N)

Rick van der Ploeg

Oxford University, OXCARRE

“Natural resources and economic development”

12h30-14hLunch

14h-16hParallel sessions 13, 14, 15, 16

Session 13: Household resource allocation (Room 1F)

Chair: Maëlys de la Rupelle

-Does child labor hurt parents? Evidence from Mexico

Olivier Bargain (Aix-Marseille University; Aix-Marseille School of Economics; EHESS; IZA) with Delphine Boutin

-The anticipation of polygyny in the household economy

Isabelle Chort(LEDa, DIAL, University of Paris Dauphine) with Marie Boltz-Laemmel

-Do cows have negative returns: The evidence revisited

Esther Gehrke(University of Passau; German Development Institute) with Michael Grimm

-Estimating the willingness to pay for environmental resources in the Chilean Patagonia

Juan-Pedro Garces-Voisenat (Durham University) with Zinnia Mukherjee

Session 14: Agricultural issues (Room 1J)

Chair: Tanguy Bernard

-Agricultural supply chains and farmers constraints: Welfare impacts in ECOWAS countries

NicolasDepetris Chauvin(ACET and CEPII) with Guido Porto

-Short and long run effects and earthquakes on farm businesses in Indonesia

Jérémy Gignoux(Paris School of Economics) with Martha Menendez

-Strengthening producer organizations to unleash productive potential of smallholder farmers in Uganda

MarkusOlapade(International Initiative for Impact Evaluation) with Markus Frölich, Ruth Hill-Vargasand Eduardo Maruyama

Session 15: Democracy and development (Room 1K)

Chair: Rick van der Ploeg

-Missing values and distribution assumption: the two overlooked central issues in the nonexistent relationship between income and democracy

Rajius Idzalika(Faculty of Economic Sciences, Georg-August Universität Göttingen)

-The nexus democracy and good governance: A cross-national analysis in a non-linear framework

SahaShrabani (Lincoln Business School, UK) with Yashar Tarverdi Mamaghani

-Why do some oil-producing countries succeed in democracy while others fail?

Luc D. Omgba (EconomiX, University of Paris-Ouest)

Session 16 (in French): Diversification and the state (Room 1L)

Chair: Alain Piveteau

-Subsidies, patent and International technology diffusion in a duopoly

Julien Berthoumieu(LARefi, University of Bordeaux)

-Le modèle des Etats développeurs d'Asie en perspective historique

Marc Lautier(CEPN, Université Paris XIII) with Jean-Raphael Chaponnière

-What’s behind the diversification: An empirical analysis of developing countries’ export and output structures

Pauline Lectard (GREThA, Université de Bordeaux)