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1 Personal Name Dr Arjan Verschoor Position Reader in Economics Duration August 1, 2008 Nationality Dutch, born 30/10/1968 CURRICULUM VITAE (January 2015) Academic history MSc Economics (cum laude), Erasmus University Rotterdam MSc Development Economics (cum laude), Erasmus University Economic consultant, SEOR Rotterdam PhD Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam Research Officer, University of Sheffield School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia Grants awarded (PI on *) * DFID/ESRC for a study of agricultural investment decisions in Uganda, 430,000 (with Ben d Exelle) *DFID/ESRC for a cross-country study of intra-household allocations in India, Ethiopia and Nigeria, 550,000 (with Cecile Jackson, Bereket Kebede, Alistair Munro, and Nitya Rao) [PI since February 2009] 2007 DFID for a study of gender, caste and growth in India, 135,000 (with Nitya Rao) 2007 *DFID for a desk-based study of gender and trade, 20, *World Bank for a study of economic empowerment in Zambia and Ghana, $150, *DFID for a literature review of gender and growth, 10,000 Prizes 2007 University of East Anglia Award for Excellence in Teaching Publications Articles in refereed journals: Investment Behaviour, Risk Sharing and Social Distance Economic Journal forthcoming (with Ben D Exelle) Intra-household Efficiency: An Experimental Study from Ethiopia Journal of African Economies 23(1): (with Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez) Caste Dominance and Economic Performance in Rural India Economic Development and Cultural Change 62(3): (with Vegard Iversen, Adriaan Kalwij and Amaresh Dubey) Autonomy and Efficiency: An Experiment on Household Decisions in Two Regions of India Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 33: (with Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez) Does Working with Spouses Make Teams More Productive? A Field Experiment in India using NREGA, Economics Letters 118: (with Alistair Munro and Amaresh Dubey). 1

2 A Test of the Experimental Method in the Spirit of Popper Journal of Economic Methodology 19(1): (with Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo) Gender and Trade Aspects of Labour Markets Journal of Development Studies 48(1): (with Elissaios Papyrakis and Arlette Covarrubias) Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda World Development 39(4): (with Vegard Iversen, Cecile Jackson, Bereket Kebede and Alistair Munro) Choice under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ethiopia, India and Uganda Economic Journal 120(March): (with Glenn W. Harrison and Stephen J. Humphrey) Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India Journal of Development Studies 45(4): (with Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen and Amaresh Dubey). [Reprinted as Chapter 10 in: S. Irudaya Rajan (ed.), Migration, Identity and Conflict India Migration Report 2011, London etc.: Routledge, 2011.] Some Consequences of the 1994/95 Coffee Boom for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda Journal of Agricultural Economics 59(1): (with Lindsay Chant and Scott McDonald) Does Intra-household Discrimination Account for the Bulk of India s Missing Women? Journal of South Asian Development 2(1): 1-18 (with Amaresh Dubey) Not by Growth Alone: The Role of the Distribution of Income in Regional Diversity in Poverty Reduction European Economic Review 51(4): (with Adriaan Kalwij) The Trojan Horse Principle in Development Assistance: A Reading of Uganda s Experience with Aid Review of Development Economics 11(1): Aid, Social Policies and Pro-Poor Growth Journal of International Development 18(4): (with Adriaan Kalwij) Risk Attitudes and the Vicious Circle of Poverty European Journal of Development Research 17(1): (with Paul Mosley) Aid, Government Expenditure and Aggregate Welfare World Development 33(3): (with Karuna Gomanee, Oliver Morrissey and Paul Mosley) The Probability-Weighting Function: Experimental Evidence from Uganda, India and Ethiopia Economics Letters 84: (with Steven J. Humphrey) Aid, Poverty Reduction and the New Conditionality Economic Journal 114(June): F (with John Hudson and Paul Mosley) Decision-Making under Risk among Small Farmers in East Uganda Journal of African Economies 13(1): (with Steven J. Humphrey). Book chapters Job Recruitment Networks and Migration to Cities in India, Chapter 10 in: S. Irudaya Rajan (ed.), Migration, Identity and Conflict, London: Routledge (with Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen and Amaresh Dubey) Gender Relations and Female Labour Supply in East Uganda pp (chapter 6) in Sara Horrell, Hazel Johnson and Paul Mosley, Work, Female Empowerment and Economic Development, London: Routledge. 2

3 Globalization and Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty pp (chapter 4) in Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke (eds.) The Impact of Globalization on the World s Poor: Transmission Mechanisms, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (with Adriaan Kalwij) What Does Ownership Mean in Practice? Policy Learning and the Evolution of Pro-Poor Policies in Uganda pp (Chapter 13) in: Alberto Paloni and Maurizio Zanardi (eds.), The IMF, the World Bank and Policy Reforms. New York, Routledge (with Oliver Morrissey). Occasional papers Autonomy or Efficiency. An Experiment on Household Decisions in Two Regions of India CBESS Discussion Paper 11-02, and GRIPS Discussion Paper (with Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez). Gomez+and+Verschoor+(2011) Intra-Household Efficiency: An Experimental Study from Ethiopia CSAE Working Paper (with Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez) The Lion s Share. An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria GRIPS Discussion Paper (with Alistair Munro, Bereket Kebede and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez) Caste Dominance and Economic Performance in Rural India Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Discussion Paper 10-01, and DEV Working Paper 25 (with Vegard Iversen, Adriaan Kalwij and Amaresh Dubey) A Test of the Experimental Method CBESS Discussion Paper (with Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo). r+and+zizzo+(2009) Gender and Trade: A Review of Theory and Evidence DEV Working Paper 17 (with Elissaios Papyrakis and Arlette Covarrubias) Out-Group Favouritism Working Paper, Social Science Research Network (with Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo) Strategic Aid Allocation in the 21 st Century: Lessons from the 1980s and 90s. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Volume XXXV, pp What s Love Got to Do with It? An Experimental Test of Household Models in East Uganda CSAE Working Paper, WPS/ (with Vegard Iversen, Cecile Jackson, Bereket Kebede, and Alistair Munro) Networks in the Traditional Economy Evidence from India Working Paper, IDPM, University of Manchester (with Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen and Amaresh Dubey). 3

4 Choice under Uncertainty in Developing Countries CeDEx Discussion Paper (with Glenn W. Harrison and Stephen J. Humphrey) A Decomposition of Poverty Trends across Regions: The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty WIDER Research Paper, RP2005/36 (with Adriaan Kalwij) How Good is Growth for the Poor? The Role of the Initial Income Distribution in Regional Diversity in Poverty Trends CentER Discussion Paper Series (with Adriaan Kalwij) Aid, Pro-Poor Government Spending and Welfare CREDIT Research Paper 03/03 (with Karuna Gomanee, Oliver Morrisey and Paul Mosley) Aid and the Poverty-Sensitivity of the Public Sector Budget University of Sheffield, DFID Research Programme on Risk, Labour Markets and Pro- Poor Growth, Occasional Paper No Aid, Social Policy and Pro-Poor Growth University of Sheffield, DFID Research Programme on Risk, Labour Markets and Pro-Poor Growth, Occasional Paper (with Adriaan Kalwij) Decision-Making under Risk in Rural Uganda CeDEx Discussion Paper (with Stephen J. Humphrey). Recent peer-reviewed consultancy reports The Conceptual Basis of Payment by Results, Report to Department for International Development (with Paul Clist) Gender, Caste and Growth Assessment India, Report to Department for International Development DEV Reports and Policy Paper Series, The School of International Development, University of East Anglia An Assessment of Zambia s Citizens Economic Empowerment Act Report to The World Bank The Economic Empowerment of Young People in Ghana and Zambia (synthesis report) Report to The World Bank The Economic Empowerment of Young People in Ghana, Report to The World Bank (with John Kwasi Anarfi and Nana Akua Anyidoho) The Economic Empowerment of Young People in Zambia, Report to The World Bank (with Catherine Locke) Caste Dominance and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from a Panel Data Set for India, Report to The World Bank (with Amaresh Dubey, Vegard Iversen, Adriaan Kalwij, and Bereket Kebede) Gender and Trade for Development: A Synthesis of Evidence and Action for Change Report to DBERR DFID - Commonwealth Secretariat (with Sue Fleming, Arlette Covarrubias and Elissaios Papyrakis) Gender and Trade: Theory and Evidence Report to DBERR DFID - Commonwealth Secretariat (with Arlette Covarrubias and Elissaios Papyrakis) Women s Economic Empowerment: Gender and Growth Literature Review and Synthesis, Report to DFID (with Arlette Covarrubias and Catherine Locke). Papers under review 4

5 52. Truly Reconciled? A Dyadic Analysis of Post-Conflict Social Reintegration (with Matthew Osborne and Ben D Exelle) 53. Conflicting Risk Attitudes (with Ben D Exelle, Amrei M. Lahno and Marta Serra-Garcia). 54. Does Promoting Gender Equality Increase Household Efficiency? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, Nigeria and India (with Bereket Kebede, Alistair Munro and Marcela Tarazona). 55. Lab and Life: Does Risky Choice Observed in Experiments Reflect That in the Real World? (with Ben D Exelle and Borja Perez-Viana Martinez). 56. Human Sex Ratio is Affected by Fat Consumption: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample for India (with Amaresh Dubey) Book reviews 57. Review of Inequality, Poverty and Well-Being edited by Mark McGillivray (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and of Understanding Human Well-being, edited by Mark McGillivray and Matthew Clarke (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2006). Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 43, Issue 5 (July), pp Review of Foreign Aid in the New Global Economy edited by Peter Burnell and Oliver Morrissey (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004). Journal of International Development 2006, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp Review of Rural Poverty, Risk and Development by Marcel Fafchamps (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2003). Journal of Agricultural Economics 2004, Vol. 55, No. 3 (November), pp Review of Labour Mobility and Rural Society edited by Arjan de Haan and Ben Rogaly (London: Frank Cass, 2002). Journal of International Development 2003, Vol. 15, No. 5 (July), pp Conference participation Paper at the 2014 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC), Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, December Paper at the Annual Conference of the European Economic Association, Toulouse, August 25-29, Paper the Royal Economic Society Conference, Manchester, April 7-9, Two papers at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference, University of Oxford, March 23-25, Two papers at the Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC), The Choice Lab, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, December 5-6, Paper at NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference on Experiments for Development, Tokyo, March 18-19, Paper at the Sixth Nordic Conference on Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Lund, October 28-29,

6 Paper at the UNU-WIDER Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics, Helsinki, September Paper at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) of the World Bank, Paris, May 30, Paper at the Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference, University of Oxford, March 20-22, Paper at the Asia-Pacific Economic Science Association (ESA) Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, February Paper at the American Economic Association Conference, Denver, January 7, Paper at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, November Paper at the ESA World Meeting 2010, University of Copenhagen, July 8-11, Paper at the Asia Pacific conference of the Economic Science Association (ESA), Melbourne Australia, February Invited presentation on Income Mobility in India. University of Maryland NCAER International Conference on Measuring Human Development, New Delhi, India, May 16-18, Invited presentation on Methodological Aspects of Gender and Growth Assessments. DFID/World Bank seminar on Integrating Gender into Country-Level Growth Analysis: Practical Tools and Analytical Approaches. London: June 2-3, Paper at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Growth and Development Conference, New Delhi, India, December 17-18, Invited presentation Economic Mobility by Social Group in Rural India, : Evidence from a Large-scale Panel Dataset International Seminar on Revisiting the Poverty Issue: Measurement, Identification and Eradication, organised by Institute for Human Development and others, Patna, Bihar, India, July 20-22, Invited presentation Does Gender Equity Make Economic Sense? A Critical Look at the Evidence. Workshop on Gender and Economics [for mid-level government officials] in Anglophone West Africa, Co-sponsored by the World Bank and the Ghanaian Ministries of Finance and Economic Planning and Women s and Children s Affairs, Accra, Ghana, May Paper at Seminar on Gender and Access in South Asia, organised by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Gender and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, November Two papers at Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September

7 Invited public lecture Will Doubling International Aid Make Poverty History? Trinity College Dublin Millennium Development Goals Annual Lecture Series, April Invited paper Strategic Aid Allocation in the 21 st Century: Lessons from the 1980s and 90s, Symposium on Ireland s Policy to Africa: Trade and Aid, The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Dublin, April Paper at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, London, August Presented paper The Trojan Horse Principle in Development Assistance: A Reading of Uganda s Experience with Aid at the International HWWA Conference on the Political Economy of Aid, Hamburg, December Paper at the UNU-WIDER Conference on the Impact of Globalisation on the World s Poor, Helsinki, October Paper at the World Bank s GTAP conference, Washington, D.C., June Co-presented paper The Development of Trust and Social Capital in Rural Uganda: An Experimental Approach at the 2004 Royal Economic Society Conference, Swansea, 7 9 April 2004 (with Paul Mosley). Paper at the Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa Somerset West, South Africa, September Two papers at the DSA conference, Glasgow, September Presented paper Risk Attitudes in the Vicious Circle of Poverty at the IDPM Chronic Poverty Research Centre Conference, Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty and Development Policy, Manchester, 7 9 April Presented paper Aid, Social Policies and Pro-Poor Growth at the DESG Annual Conference 2002, University of Nottingham, April Refereeing activity ESRC and ESRC/DFID grant applications PhD funding application Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (2012) Rapporteur for ESRC (2011- ) Journal proposal for Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Textbook proposals for Pearson Education. On editorial board of Journal of South Asian Development (2012- ) Submissions to Development Studies Research, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, European Journal of Development Research, Experimental Economics, Indian Growth and Development Review, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Human Development and 7

8 Capabilities, Journal of International Development, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of South Asian Development, Oxford Bulletin for Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Development Economics, Social Science Quarterly, Theory and Decision, World Development. External examining of PhD theses 2013 Oxford University, All Souls College 2012 University of Reading, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development 2012 University of Sussex, Department of Economics 2012 Swansea University, School of Business and Economics 2010 University of Nottingham, School of Economics 2009 Oxford University, Nuffield College 2009 University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India 2007 London School of Economics, DESTIN PhD students Borja Perez-Viana Martinez (agricultural investment in Uganda) [current] Rik Habraken (livelihoods aspirations in Tanzania and Uganda) [current] Ines Ferreira (on aid to fragile states) [current] Brendan Whitty (on DFID s results agenda) [current] Matthew Osborne (on post-conflict reintegration in Uganda) [current] Maria Ana Jalles D Orey (on health aid in Mozambique) [completed 2014] Baruch Ramirez (on pro-poor growth in Mexico) [completed 2011] Fabiola Lopez-Gomez (on subcontracting in Mexico) [completed 2011] Patricia Agupusi (on black economic empowerment in South Africa) [completed 2010] Maren Duvendack (on micro-finance in India) [completed 2010] Arlette Covarrubias (on female labour supply in Mexico) [completed 2010] Lucio Esposito (on measuring poverty and relative deprivation) [completed 2009] Gordon Leua Nanau (on the local effects of globalisation in the Solomon Islands) [completed 2008] Postdocs Paul Clist, Aid Allocation, Composition and Effect (ESRC) 8

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VEGARD IVERSEN MALE. or VEGARD IVERSEN MALE DATE OF BIRTH: 12 OCT 1962 e-mail: Vegard.Iversen@manchester.ac.uk or v.iversen@uea.ac.uk EDUCATION PhD Economics, University of Cambridge, 2000 MA Dissertation Title: Child labour