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Castello di Gargonza, Tuscany, Italy
Monday 4th to Thursday 7th September 2023
Castello di Gargonza, Tuscany, Italy
The school intends to provide an intensive training course for graduate students and young researchers who are working in the field of development and international economics. This year the focus will be on gender, labour and development.
For further information and teaching material, please refer to: https://dagliano.unimi.it/
LEAP is proud partner with Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti and Comune di Milano of of RaccontaMi, the census of homeless people in the municipality of Milan.
The Italian funding agency PRIN will fund projects by Lucia Corno, Alexia Delfino and Stefano Fiorin on restrictive gender norms. They will conduct research on misperceptions surrounding FGC, menstruation taboos and breastfeeding policies! Congratulations to our affiliates!
BOCCONI'S LABORATORY FOR EFFECTIVE ANTI POVERTY POLICIES PROVIDES RIGOROUS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE FUNCTIONING OF EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES, WHICH COULD BE REPLICATED ON A LARGE SCALE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION
6 GIUGNO 2023
9.30-17.00
Università Bocconi
Aula Magna
Via Gobbi 5
Please note that registration to this event is mandatory.
You may register at the following link: https://eventi.unibocconi.it/form.php?pt=2
Thank you Hanna Moreno for her interesting presentation: "The effect of forced displacement on long term educational outcomes: evidence from Uganda" at today's LEAP Coffee!
The paper The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited by our affiliate Selene Ghisolfi and co-authors has been published in the Journal of Development Economics.
LEAP PhD Student Raphaelle Aulagnon reports on the recent LEAP seminar with Abhijeet Singh
Here is a list of the upcoming seminars co-organized by LEAP and Università Cattolica di Milano.
The seminars will take place on the campus of Università Cattolica di Milano.
The Italian Development Economist Association (IDEAS), the Department of Economics of Verona and the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability of Monash University organize the 2023 (12th) edition of the Summer School in Development Economics.