ERG Annual Winter Conference 2022

ERG Winter Conference 2022

ERG Winter Conference
Organized by Economic Research Group (ERG)
Date: Monday, December 26, 2022
Venue: Arcade Delight, 4-B, House # 121, Road # 1, Block # F, Banani,
Dhaka –1213, Bangladesh

 

Program:

 

  Registration & Morning Tea  (09:00 – 09:30)
Session 1:  Labor market and inequality (09:30 – 10:45)
09:30 – 10:00 Moniruzzaman, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, “Women’s labor market opportunity and son preference.”  Download
10:00 – 10:30 Md. Deen Islam, PhD candidate, Boston University, “The geography of automation.”   Download
10:30 – 10:45 Additional Question & Answer (to continue into tea)
Tea break (10:45 – 11:00)
Session 2:  Intervention and its effectiveness in education (11:00 – 13:00)
11:00 – 11:30 Adnan Fakir, Lecturer, University of Sussex Business School, “Empowered but burdened? Welfare impacts of small education cash transfers in Bangladesh”  Download
11:30 – 12:00 Saima Khan, Research Economist, “Does BRAC provide highly effective schooling in developing countries?”  Download
12.00– 12.30 C. Rashaad Shabab, Director of Student Experience & Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex Business School, “Understanding mathematics anxiety: Loss aversion and student engagement.”  Download
12.30 – 13.00 Additional Question & Answer (to continue into lunch)
Lunch & Catching up (13:00 – 14:00)
Session 3:  (Mis)information, payoffs, and behavior (14:00 – 16:00)
14:00 – 14:30 Ananta Neelim, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, “Some types of probabilistic rewards increase worker motivation.Download
14:30 – 15:00
Rafayal Ahmed, Fellow, London School of Economics, “Biased news and voter turnout.”  Download
15:00 – 15:30
Additional Question & Answer (to continue into tea)
15:30 – 17:00 Tea & More Adda

 

Contact Information:
For any query, please contact: conference@ergonline.org with a copy sent to the following addresses:
sajjadzohir@gmail.com, atonu.rabbani@gmail.com, a.fakir@sussex.ac.uk, asad.priyo@northsouth.edu