BÜRO BERLIN

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 12:30 Uhr – 13:30 Uhr

Titel: Coping with weather shocks (joint work with Simon Görlach)

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 10:15 Uhr – 11:45 Uhr

Titel: Demand for Emergency Room Services and Air Pollution: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Abstract: We leverage the universe of administrative public healthcare records in Mexico to provide the first nationwide assessment of hospitalizations linked to PM2.5 exposure in a developing country. To identify the causal impact of PM2.5 on emergency room service demand, we exploit quasi-random air pollution shocks caused by variations in the height of the planetary boundary layer across Mexican municipalities. Our findings reveal that a marginal increase in PM2.5 leads to a 2.3% rise in emergency room admission rates. This effect varies significantly across age groups and is primarily driven by respiratory conditions associated with air pollution, alongside a range of previously unexplored health issues.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad Development (joint with Lara Bohnet, Jules Gazeaud and Julia Seither)

Abstract: International migration can contribute importantly to economic development in countries of origin and destination. We hypothesize that these migration effects depend on immigrant integration. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to experimentally evaluate the impact of providing information and of a role model intervention to promote immigrants’ integration among Cape Verdeans in Portugal. Providing immigrants with a low-cost scalable information app is particularly effective promoting integration outcomes such as quality of employment, migrant regular status and contact with natives. It furthermore affects those left behind. Targeting migrant integration barriers in the destination country improves political participation and gender equality norms in the country of origin.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Rescue on Stage: Border Enforcement and Public Attention in the Mediterranean Sea

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 10:30 Uhr – 11:30 Uhr

Titel: The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes

Abstract: Freedom of speech is central to democracy, but protests that amplify extremist views expose a critical trade-off between civil liberties and public safety. This paper investigates how right-wing demonstrations affect the incidence of hate crimes, focusing on Germany’s largest far-right movement since World War II. Leveraging a difference-in-differences framework with instrumental variable and event-study approaches, we find that a 20% increase in local protest attendance nearly doubles hate crime occurrences. We explore three potential mechanisms—signaling, agitation, and coordination—by examining protest dynamics, spatial diffusion, media influence, counter-mobilization, and crime characteristics. Our analysis reveals that large protests primarily act as signals of broad xenophobic support, legitimizing extremist violence. This signaling effect propagates through right-wing social media networks and is intensified by local newspaper coverage and Twitter discussions. Consequently, large protests shift local equilibria, resulting in sustained higher levels of violence primarily perpetrated by repeat offenders. Notably, these protests trigger resistance predominantly online, rather than physical counter-protests.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Der Tag beginnt um 9:00 Uhr mit einem Meet & Greet, bei dem sich die Teilnehmenden kurz vorstellen können, um den Austausch und die Kontakte während des Tages und darüber hinaus zu fördern. Danach folgen sechs Präsentationen, die von Kaffee- und Mittagspausen unterbrochen werden. Am Ende des Tages sind Sie herzlich eingeladen, an einer optionalen Führung durch das historische ESMT-Gebäude teilzunehmen.

Zeit: 9.00 Uhr - 15.10 Uhr

Ort: Andreas-Dombret-Saal der ESMT Berlin, Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin

Das vollständige Programm mit Referent:innen und Vortragstiteln finden Sie hier.

Teilnahme nur auf Einladung. Wenn Sie an einer Teilnahme interessiert sind, kontaktieren Sie bitte cara.ebert@rwi-essen.de.

Das Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) veranstaltet jährlich einen Workshop für Doktoranden, die sich mit Themen der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit beschäftigen. Diese Workshops bieten Doktoranden die Möglichkeit, ihre laufenden Arbeiten vorzustellen und kritisches Feedback zu erhalten.

Der 10. Doktorandenworkshop findet am 6. Juni 2025 am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) in Hamburg statt.

Wir freuen uns besonders, dass Stefania Lovo (University of Reading) unsere Einladung angenommen hat, einen Keynote-Vortrag zu halten. Der diesjährige Workshop wird durch das Stipendium „Grow Your Idea!“ des Geo.X-Netzwerks gefördert.

Das Programm für den 10. DENeB-PhD-Workshop finden Sie hier.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: Occupational Aspirations and Investments in Education: Experimental Evidence from Cambodia

Abstract: Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions, which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1,715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day career-guidance workshop designed to support adolescents in developing occupational aspirations increased educational investments. We document substantial heterogeneity in treatment effects by baseline student performance. While the workshop increased schooling efforts of high-performing students, treated low-performing students reduced their educational investments. We develop a simple model that explains this treatment effect heterogeneity by baseline performance.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Das RWI wird gemeinsam mit den RatSWD im Berliner Büro einen RWI-Impuls zum Thema „Auf dem Weg zum Bildungsverlaufsregister?!“ organisieren. Die Veranstaltung wird durch ein Frühstück begleitet.

Datum: 26. Juni 2025

Uhrzeit: 8:00 bis 10:00 Uhr

RWI-Impuls ist ein exklusives Round Table Format, in dem das RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung ausgewählte Akteure aus Politik, Zivilgesellschaft und Medien einlädt, gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftler:innen in einem vertraulichen Rahmen über wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu aktuellen, gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Themen zu diskutieren. Die Veranstaltungen folgen den Chatham-Haus-Regeln. Die Veranstaltung ist geladenen Gästen vorbehalten.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: tba

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Once per month (Fridays) DENeB meets for their writing session. They sit together and work individually on a specific task from 09:30 to 17:00 (writing, coding, etc.) applying the pomodoro technique.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: “Employment, Productivity, and Weak Institutions: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria”

Abstract:Consequences of weak institutions can profoundly shape economic activity. In many low-income countries, weak contract enforcement creates an economic environment where firms frequently fail to pay employees’ contractual salaries. This paper investigates how such frictions affect labor supply behavior. Using original survey data from Nigeria, we document that salary delays are a widespread experience among workers, causing pervasive concerns about employers not paying wages as agreed. We then present evidence from a field experiment in which we employ 299 workers for real data classification tasks in Lagos. Delaying salaries for a random subset of employees (who had been informed about this possibility as part of the job offer) does not reduce productivity; if anything, their productivity increases. This result is consistent with the idea that workers want to signal their value to the employer in the presence of uncertainty. Finally, a supplementary field experiment explores how payment uncertainty affects workers’ willingness to accept jobs. Job offers that credibly signal reliable salary payments significantly increase take-up rates. Strikingly, this effect is driven by individuals who initially reported not seeking employment, suggesting that payment uncertainty deters labor market participation among those with viable outside options.

Ort: Hybrid – Berliner Büro und Teams-Veranstaltung

Zeit: 13:30 Uhr – 14:30 Uhr

Titel: tba

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