Meetings

December 15, 2017, Northwestern University

• Jeffrey Bloem, University of Minnesota: Good Intentions Gone Bad: Dodd-Frank 1502 and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
• Sarah Brierley, Washington University in St Louis: The (Short-Term) Moderating Effect of Debates on Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana (with Eric Kramon and George Ofosu)
• Noah Nathan, University of Michigan: Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention: Chieftaincy, Voter Coordination, and Distribution in Northern Ghana
• Natalie Letsa, University of Oklahoma: The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa (with Martha Wilfahrt)
• Evan Morier, University of Wisconsin: Deserted Development: The Inefficiencies of Electoral Cycles in Infrastructure Projects: Research Design (with Emilia Tjernstrom)
• Jeff Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University: Reducing Cross-Border Scapegoating: Research Design

October 28-29, 2016, University of Minnesota

• Rachel Beatty Riedl: Shifting Allegiances: Urban-Rural Linkages in SSA
• Christine Moser: Violent extremist attacks and schooling decisions:  Boko Haram in Nigeria
• Jennifer Brass: The Distributive Politics of Solar Electricity as a Public Good in Ghana
• Kathleen Klaus: Appealing to Ethnic Grievances: An Experimental Study of Land and Campaign Messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
•  Josef Woldense: Creating Stability Amid Change: Cabinet Appointments and the Survival of Ethiopia’s Last Emperor
• Kristin Michelitch: Electoral Competition and Partisan versus Ethnic Discrimination in Kenya

November 13-14, 2015, Vanderbilt University

• Amanda Robinson: Cultural Revival and Electoral Politics: The Rise of Lomwe Ethnic Consciousness in Malawi
• Jessica Gottlieb (with Horacio A. Larreguy): An Informational Theory of Electoral Targeting: Evidence from Senegal
• Keith Weghorst: Legislative Candidacy in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes Evidence from Tanzania
• Brigitte Zimmerman and Lucy Martin: Research Design for an Experiment in Local Tax Collection and Tax Compliance in Malawi.
• Amanda Clayton (with Cecilia Josefsson): In Whose Interest? Connecting Gender Gaps in Elite and Citizen Policy Preferences in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Alice Kang (with Aili Mari Tripp): Coalitions and the Diffusion of Gender Quotas: Evidence from Africa

September 19-20, 2014, Ohio State University

• Rachel Riedl: Religious Communication and Political Empowerment: Evidence from Pentecostal Sermons in Nairobi, Kenya
• Jeff Conroy-Krutz: Culture Shift? The Effects of Violent Conflict on Attitudes on Women’s Political Participation
• Willa Friedman: What Can We Learn from Babies Born During Health-Worker Strikes?
• Keith Weghorst: Legislative Candidacy in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
• Jessica Gottlieb: The Determinants of Local Leader Influence in Elections: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal
• Amanda Robinson: Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Ethnocentric Trust in Africa

October 17-18, 2013, Indiana University

• Marc F. Bellemare & Tara L. Steinmetz: All in the Family: Explaining the Persistence of Genital Cutting in the Gambia
• Kim Yi Dionne & Jeremy Horowitz: The Political Effects of Anti-Poverty Initiatives: An Analysis of Malawi’s Agricultural Input Subsidy Program
• Jessica Gottlieb: Why women participate less in civic activity: Evidence from Mali
• Kristin Michelitch: Beyond Voting: Temporal Proximity to Elections, Competitiveness and Political Participation (low resolution)
• Sangick Jeon, Tim Johnson & Amanda Robinson: Social Sanctioning Across Ethnic Lines: Experimental Evidence from the Kenya-Tanzania Border
• Ryan Sheely: Skipping the State? Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence on the Dynamics of Non-State Social Welfare Provision in Sierra Leone

December 7-8, 2012, Duke University

• Marc Bellemare & Christine Moser: State and Power in Africa: Evidence from Madagascar
• Jennifer Brass & Mark O’Dell: NGOs, Civil Society & Democratic Participation in Kenya
• Ryan Briggs: The influence of foreign aid changes on incumbent advantage in Africa: Cross-national evidence
• Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz: What Determines the Price of a Vote? Motive, Means, and Opportunity in Vote-Buying Practices
• Pamela Jagger & Gerald Shively: Taxes and Bribes in Uganda
• Rachel Beatty Riedl & J. Tyler Dickovick: Party Systems and Decentralization in Africa

December 2-3, 2011, Northwestern University

• Lori Beaman, Jeremy Magruder, & Jon Robinson: Small Change and Forgotten Sales: Evidence from an Experiment with Small Businesses in Kenya
• Marc Bellemare: Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest
• Jaimie Bleck & Kristin Michelitch: Good Morning Timbuktu! The Impact of Radio in Rural Islamic Africa
• Devra C. Moehler, Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, & Rosario Aguilar Pariente: Parties on the Ballot: Visual Cues and Voting Behavior in Uganda
• Pamela Jagger: Property rights, clarity, and harvesting behavior in Uganda
• Jacob Ricker-Gilbert & T.S. Jayne: Can Subsidizing Fertilizer Boost Staple Crop Production and Reduce Poverty? Quantile Regression Results from Malawi

April 8-9, 2011, Texas A&M University

• Marc Bellemare: The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
• Jennifer Brass: Do NGOs Account for Decreasing Legitimacy in Kenya? An Analysis after Forty Years of Independence
• Rachel Riedl: Transforming Politics, Dynamic Religion: Religion’s Political Impact in Africa
• Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz: The Price of a Vote
• Harounan Kazianga: School Feeding Programs, Intrahousehold Allocation and the Nutrition of Siblings: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
• Kim Yi Dionne: The Politics of Local Research Production: A Case Study of Ethnic Competition

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