December 1-3, 2011, Berkeley, California
The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (X-lab) and the Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Choice Lab at NHH Norwegian School of Economics are pleased to announce the 2011 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) to be held from December 1 to December 3 at U.C. Berkeley. The objective of the Symposium is to bring together a community of top scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries. Tentative participants this year include Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School), Colin Camerer (Caltech), Ray Fisman (Columbia GSB), Uri Gneezy (UCSD Rady School of Management), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard) and Chris Udry (Yale).
Submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC’s broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years). The choice of papers will be based on full paper submissions, which should be sent via email by September 15th to Jane Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) at janezhang@ust.hk. Successful applicants will be notified by September 30th and will be invited to attend the full symposium, and SEEDEC will cover their economy travel and accommodations.
For further information, please visit http://cega.berkeley.edu/events/seedec2011 or contact Jane Zhang (HKUST) at janezhang@ust.hk, Shachar Kariv (U.C. Berkeley) at kariv@econ.berkeley.edu, Edward Miguel (U.C. Berkeley) at emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu, or Bertil Tungodden (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) at Bertil.Tungodden@nhh.no.
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2011