1st Prize: Gerrit Gonschorek (PhD at University of Freiburg)
“The Political Economy of Intergovernmental Transfers: Why Institutional Design Matters – Evidence from Decentralized Indonesia”
2nd Prize: Pallavi Rajkhowa (PhD at University of Bonn)
“Personalized digital extension services, electronic marketplaces, and mobile phones: Implications of digital technology on rural development in India”
3rd Prize: Carsten Mildner (PhD at University of Bayreuth)
“DEAF-DEAF-DIFFERENT. Ambiguities of being deaf in Benin”
“The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic”, published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Young Researchers
Name and affiliation
Dissertation
1. Platz: André Gröger (Promoviert an der University of Frankfurt)
“On the Causes and Consequences of Migration in Developing Countries”
2. Platz: Muhammad Baba Bello (Promoviert an der Universität zu Kiel)
“Three Essays on Modeling Consumer Preferences in the Presence of Hypothetical Bias and Attribute Non-Attendance in Food Choice Experiments”
3. Platz: Vera Eichenauer (Promoviert an der Universität Heidelberg)
“The Political Economy of Foreign Aid – Allocation, Timing, and Effectiveness”
Sebastian Vollmer (Universität Göttingen), Kenneth Harttgen (ETH Zürich)
„Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries.“
Young Researchers
Name and affiliation
Dissertation
1. Platz: Simon Alder (Promoviert an der Universität Zürich)
„Essays in Economic Policy and Development“
2. Platz: Jan Beek (Promoviert an der Universität Mainz)
„Boundary Work: The Police in Ghana“
3. Platz: Vera Molitor (Promoviert an der Universität Mannheim)
“Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets”, published in Journal of Development Economics
Andrey Launov (Universität Mainz)
Young Researchers
Name and affiliation
Dissertation
1. Platz: Nadine Reis (Promoviert an der Universität Bonn)
“Tracing and Making the State – Policy Practices and Domestic Water Supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam”
2. Platz: Kerstin Maria Humberg (Promoviert an der Universität zu Köln)
“Poverty Reduction through Social Business? Lessons Learnt from Grameen Joint Ventures in Bangladesh”
3. Platz: Melanie Feuerbach (Promoviert an der Universität Bremen)
„Alternative Übergangsrituale: Untersuchung zu Praktiken der weiblichen Genitalverstümmelung im subsaharischen Afrika und deren Transformationen im Entwicklungsprozess“
“Benefits of Genetically Modified Crops for the Poor: Household Income, Nutrition, and Health”, published in New Biotechnology
Benedikt Korf (Universität Zürich)
“The gift of disaster: On the commodification of good intentions in Sri Lanka after the tsunami”, published in Disasters
Young Researchers
Name and affiliation
Dissertation
1. Platz: Kristina Kis-Katos (Promoviert an der Universität Freiburg)
“Globalization and Child Labor”
2. Platz: Patrick Sakdapolrak (Promoviert an der Universität Bonn)
„Orte und Räume der Health Vulnerability. Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis für die Analyse von Krankheit und Gesundheit in megaurbanen Slums von Chennai, Südindien“
3. Platz: James Rao (Promoviert an der Universität Göttingen)
“High-value Agricultural Markets and Implications for Rural Development – The Case of Vegetables in Kenya”
“Development Aid and International Politics: Does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?”, published in Journal of Development Economics 88: 1-18 (2009)
Jan-Egbert Sturm (ETH Zürich)
James Vreeland (Georgeton University)
Young Researchers
Name and affiliation
Dissertation
1. Platz: Devesh Rustagi (Universität Zürich)
”Behavioral Heterogeneity and Human Cooperation”
2. Platz: Johannes Gräb (Universität Göttingen)
“Econometric Analysis in Poverty Research – With Case Studies from Developing Countries”
3. Platz: Simone Rettberg (Freie Universität Berlin)
„Das Risiko der Afar – Existenzsicherung äthiopischer Nomaden im Kontext von Hungerkrisen, Konflikten und Entwicklungsinterventionen“
