Activitats
Dijous, 3 Desembre 2020
Dia · Setmana
13:30
Jaime Arellano Bover (Yale University)
Descripció:
UAB Job Market Seminar.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86059080758?pwd=RE9CMW5lV051ZGF1VThSQjdweTZ5QT09.
Ubicació: Zoom
Data: Dijous 3, Desembre de 2020 - 13:30h
15:00
Desarrollo alternativo: illicit crop substitution and the price of legal alternatives (with Sophie de Vries Robbé)
Descripció:
Abstract:
Colombia is the world’s major producer of coca leaves used for the production of cocaine. An important pillar of Colombia’s efforts to curb the production of this illicit crop is to induce farmers to substitute coca
for a viable legal alternative. In this paper we identify the extent to which farmers respond to variation in the price of five of the most promising legal alternatives when deciding how much coca to plant – coffee,
sugar, palm oil, cocoa, and banana. We do this using a rich, spatially very detailed dataset that contains yearly information on the amount of coca grown in each of over 31,000 villages (veredas) in Colombia over the
period 2001-2018. To identify our main effect of interest, we exploit exogenous variation in the prices of the five alternative legal export crops that we consider, in combination with detailed information about the soil
and climatic suitability of each village for growing these legal alternatives, as well as for growing coca. We find that farmers in villages more suitable for growing coffee, palm oil and banana differentially respond to price
increases of these particular legal alternatives by planting less coca. We discuss why we find this effect for these three crops only, and not for cocoa or sugar. Moreover, we provide evidence that these effects are confined
to villages where coca grows well, and probe into the alleged important role of having good access to markets for the legal crop(s), or for coca (paste), in illicit crop substitution.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86956333158?pwd=NEhDc3laRHVNUlB4MmtnRG4vc1BrQT09.
Ubicació: Zoom
Data: Dijous 3, Desembre de 2020 - 15:00h
Divendres, 4 Desembre, 2020
12:00
Shangdi Hou (UAB-IDEA)
Descripció:
Bellaterra Macro Club.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86059080758?pwd=RE9CMW5lV051ZGF1VThSQjdweTZ5QT09.
Ubicació: Zoom
Data: Divendres 4, Desembre de 2020 - 12:00h
13:30
Barbara Biasi (Yale University)
Descripció:
UAB Job Market Seminar.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86059080758?pwd=RE9CMW5lV051ZGF1VThSQjdweTZ5QT09.
Ubicació: Zoom
Data: Divendres 4, Desembre de 2020 - 13:30h
15:30
"Natural disasters and education"
Descripció:
Anousheh Alamir (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86059080758?pwd=RE9CMW5lV051ZGF1VThSQjdweTZ5QT09.
Ubicació: Zoom
Data: Divendres 4, Desembre de 2020 - 15:30h
Dimecres, 9 Desembre, 2020
09:00
Francesco Carli (Deakin University)
Descripció:
Enllaç: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82496375274.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Dimecres 9, Desembre de 2020 - 09:00h