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Professor Jenny Aker of Cornell University delivered the TIME Annual Lecture on 25^th November. She presented "The Mobile Phone Revolution in Africa" in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building.

Jenny Aker, Professor of Development Economics at Cornell University, will deliver a lecture on "The Mobile Phone Revolution in Africa: Successes, Failures and the Future" at the 2024 TIME Annual Lecture on November 26^th at 6.30pm in the Swift Theatre, Arts Building. Click to RSVP.

Professor Ronan Lyons writes about Nepal's ability to build homes at twice the rate of Ireland in a new column in The Currency. He suggests that Ireland could take a leaf out of Nepal's book and become literate in land values.

"Better energy cost information changes household property investment decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide experiment" is co-authoreed with James Carroll, Eleanor Denny and Ivan Petrov. It is the first paper to conduct a large controlled trial for residential properties covering a nationwide market

Professor Carol Newman presented the paper "Worker Mobility and Productivity Spillovers: An Emerging Market Perspective", co-authored by John Rand, Ayanda Hlatshwayo and Friedrich Kresuser at the Nordic Conference in Development Economics on 17^th June 2024.

In "Housing pricese, costs, and policy: The housing supply equation in Ireland since 1970", Lyons and Günnewig-Mönert examine how responsive new housing supply in Ireland has been to changes in housing prices and costs. To do this, they use data for Ireland and for Dublin from the 1970s to the 2020s, as well as county-level data from the 1990s.

Professors Selim Gulesci, Alejandra Ramos and Maria Lombardi study how exposure to soap operas with LGBTQ+ characters affects attitudes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Professor Selim Gulesci and his co-authors examine a household's willingness to pay after a cash transfer is used to relax their borrowing constraints. The article looks at various examples of households in Tanzania.

Professors Carol Newman and Tara Mitchell have recently published a research paper with The World Bank Economic Review in March 2024. Co-authored with Marcus Holmlund and Chloë Fernandez, the paper investigates strategies to overcome the public goods problem in the maintenance of communal spaces and infrastructure in an urban environment.

Kate Orkin, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Oxford, will deliver a lecture on Mental Health and Development at the 2023 TIME Annual Lecture on December 6th at 6.30pm in the Long Room Hub. Click to RSVP.

The Trinity Impact Evaluation Research Centre (TIME), in collaboration with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and funded by (Irish Aid), held a conference on Development Economics at TCD on the 13th and 14th of October 2023.

TCD professors Gaia Narciso, Carol Newman and Michael King travelled to Tokyo for the 5th JADE Conference on 1st and 2nd April 2023

Trinity IMpact and Evaluation Unit (TIME) is hosting their annual keynote lecture on Monday, December 5^th in the Dargan Theatre from 6:30-8pm. Professor of Economics Dean Karlan of Northwestern University will deliver the lecture, entitled Empowering the Unempowered with Multi-Faceted Economic Inclusion Programs: Lessons from the Past, Ideas for the Future, which focuses on anti-poverty research in developmental economics.

The Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit (TIME) is collaborating with an international consortium of state bodies, IGO's and NGO's to hold a workshop in developmental economics. Follow the link to submit papers for consideration.

The Trinity Impact Evaluation Research centre has launched the second iteration of its flagship online course. Applications are now open for the 6-week course commencing on May 9th 2022. Researchers and practitioners from research institutions, governments and NGO’s in fields of development are encouraged to apply. The Course is supported by Irish Aid and eight scholarships are on offer to citizens of Irish Aid Partner countries.

Trinity research conducted in HIV clinics in Uganda sheds new light on how low-cost interventions can improve the welfare of women living with HIV. This study examined the impact of three separate interventions aimed at providing information on the importance of nutrition, and at inspiring women to improve their outcomes in a sustainable way, via peer learning and role models.

The Trinity Impact Evaluation Research centre has launched an exciting new 5-week online course in Impact Evaluation Methods starting in November 2021. The course is interactive and collaborative and allows participants to develop an impact evaluation design for their organisations. The course is supported by Irish Aid. Eight scholarships are on offer to citizens of Irish Aid partner countries. 

The 2021 TIME Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.Prof. Rohini Pande will present on Strengthening Opportunities for Women. Thursday, September 23rd at 14.00 Irish time. Click this article to register for zoom.

Research by Professor Martina Kirchberger and Keelan Beirne (Princeton University) shows that market power in the construction sector raises prices and undermines long-term growth in poor countries.

TIME is hosting a two day international conference this week on the latest research on multi-faceted anti-poverty programmes for the ultra-poor, known as Graduation Programmes. (December 4th and 5th). With 270 registered participants it looks like our biggest event to date

Marcus Goldstein, Director of the Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank and Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist for Africa will speak on "Gender and Development: (R)evolution of our Understanding" at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, November 19th at 14:00

TIME Conference in Development Economics, organised in collaboration with the LSE (CEPR) and BREAD will take place on zoom on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2020. Submissions are now open on any topic in development economics. Deadline Friday 4th September 2020.

Selim Gulesci will join the Department of Economics in August 2020. His research is at the intersection of labour, development and gender economics.

Prof Andrea Guariso was awarded the Walter Isard Annual Award for Best Article in Peace Economics, Peace Science & Public Policy for his study with M Verpoorten titled “Armed conflict and schooling in Rwanda: Digging deeper”.

Professor Martina Kirchberger publishes a chapter on key issues of the construction sector in developing countries in the book “Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in Africa”.

The special TIME Workshop on Economic Development takes place on the 18th and 19th of April 2020 in Tokyo Japan. Submissions are due before January 5th, 2020. The Workshop is organised in collaboration with JADE, CEPR and CREPE.

Professor Gaia Narciso, with R Gray (UC Merced) and G Tortorici (Heidelberg), has published the paper titled "Globalization, agricultural markets and mass migration: Italy, 1881-1912" in Explorations in Economic History. The project was funded by the Irish Research Council.

Pascaline Dupas, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will speak on "Improving Health Outcomes for the Bottom Billion" at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, November 13th at 17:00 at Iveagh House, 80 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2

Professor Andrea Guariso, with M Björkman (SSE), J Svensson (SU), and D Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich), has published the paper titled "Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda" in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The Workshop in Development Economics, organized by TIME in collaboration with LSE and CEPR, and funded by Irish Aid, will take place at TCD on 4-5 September, 2019. Submissions for this conference are now open on any topic within the area of Development Economics. Deadline for submission: 20 May.

TIME in conjunction with Irish Aid and TCD, will host the 3rd Summer School in Impact Evaluation (26-29 August), which will provide training in quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation. It will be followed by a workshop in Applied Evaluation Methods in Health.  Apply by July 20.

Professor Andrea Guariso has published a new article titled "Armed Conflict and Schooling in Rwanda: Digging Deeper" (joint work with M. Verpoorten). The article empirically investigates how armed violence affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-Pal) has released a policy briefcase based on the research carried out by Prof Andrea Guariso and coauthors in Uganda. The study investigates the impact of a new incentivised community health workers program.

Prof Newman was lead discussant at a research results meeting of the South Africa - Towards Inclusive Economic Development programme, speaking on the topic of job creation and inequality. SA-TIED looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in southern Africa.

An innovative health programme providing financial incentives to health workers led to a 27% reduction in child mortality in rural Uganda. Professor Andrea Guariso summarizes his new research (with M Björkman Nyqvist, J Svensson, and D Yanagizawa-Drott) in an article published in "VoxDev".

Professor Andrea Guariso discusses how ethnicity still plays a major role in society and political life in Burundi and Rwanda in an opinion piece published in "The Conversation". The piece is based on his article with Bert Ingelaere and Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), recently published in Development and Change.

Professor Chris Blattman, Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago´s Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy, spoke on The reasons for Wars at the TIME Annual Keynote Lecture, October 11th at 17:30 in the Maxwell Lecture theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin. Closing remarks: Mary McCarthy, Irish Aid.

The Conference in Development Economics, in collaboration with the LSE, CEPR and BREAD and funded by Irish Aid, took place on the 21st and 22nd of September at the London School of Economics. The conference featured presentations on various topics in development economics, including slum upgrading, conditional cash transfer programs and migration, from scholars from leading universities and institutions across the globe.

Professor Andrea Guariso, with Bert Ingelaere (University of Antwerp) and Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), has published the paper titled "When Ethnicity Beats Gender: Quotas and Political Representation in Rwanda and Burundi" in Developement and Change.

TIME, in conjunction with Irish Aid and TCD, hosted their second Summer School in Impact Evaluation in August 2018. The Summer School provided training in quantitative and qualitative methods for impact evaluation. TIME also hosted a workshop in applied evaluation methods in education.

Professor Andrea Guariso, with Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp), has published a paper on Aid, trade and the post war recovery of the Rwandan coffee sector in the Journal of East African Studies.

Professor Gaia Narciso, with Catia Btista, Published a paper on Migrant remittances and information Flows: Evidence from a field experiment in the World Bank Economic Review.

Professor Gaia Narciso, with Kaveh Majlesi, Published a paper on International Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico in the Journal of Development Economics.

Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit, in conjunction with Irish Aid and Trinity College Dublin hosted their first Summer School in Impact Evaluation in September 2017. The Summer School saw participants from a variety of backgrounds participate in four days of training in quantitative and qualitative analysis.

The first Workshop in Development Economics, in collaboration with the LSE and the CEPR, and funded by Irish Aid, took place on the 18th and 19th of September in Trinity College Dublin. The workshop featured presentations on numerous topics in development economics including investment, productivity and agriculture with scholars from leading universities and institutions across the globe. Invited keynote speakers were David McKenzie (World Bank) and Imran Rasul (UCL).

Identifying what development aid investments really work is the aim of a new research initiative in Trinity College Dublin launched by Michael Gaffey, Director General of Irish Aid on Monday, September 21st, 2015. The new research group, Trinity IMpact Evaluation (TIME) Unit, brings together researchers working on micro-economic impact evaluations, development practitioners, and policy makers in an effort to understand the impact of development aid investments.

The Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with the Trinity International Development Initiative will launch a new research group called the Trinity IMpact Evaluation Unit (TIME) on Monday September 21st at 6.30pm in the Neill Lecture Theatre of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

A new research group established by the Department of Economics will bring together economics researchers, development practitioners and policy makers in a collective effort to estimate and understand the impact of development aid and investments.