SEEDEC - Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries
The annual Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC).
SEEDEC brings together a community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental economics methods for research in developing countries.
Each year submissions are invited for papers that reflect SEEDEC’s broad research agenda which includes studies involving lab experiments in the field (in contrast to focusing on the randomized evaluations that have become widespread in development economics in recent years).
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SEEDEC 2025
SEEDEC 2025
Paper submissions are now open! Click the link below for more information. The submission deadline is March 1, 2025.
2025 Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Host: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Place: Hotel Collegium Leoninum, Bonn, Germany
Date: 12 - 13 June 2025
Keynote speakers:
- Garance Genicot -
Professor, Department of Economics, Georgetown University
- David McKenzie - Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, World Bank
- Garance Genicot -
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SEEDEC 2024
SEEDEC 2024
Host: Norwegian School of Economics
Place: Bergen, Norway
Date: 12 - 13 June 2024
Keynote speakers:
- Marcel Fafchamps - Professor of Economics, Stanford University
- Eliana la Ferrara - Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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SEEDEC 2023
SEEDEC 2023
Host: GRIPS - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Date: 29 - 30 September 2023
Keynote speakers:
- Yasuyuki Sawada – Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
- Deborah Cobb-Clark – Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney
The 2023 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) will be organized by the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and FAIR (Norwegian School of Economics, NHH) in Tokyo, on September 29th and 30th, 2023.
This annual symposium lands in Japan for its twelfth edition. It aims to bring together a community of scholars who employ laboratory experimental methods for research in low and middle-income countries.
- Yasuyuki Sawada – Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
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SEEDEC 2022
SEEDEC 2022
Host: REBEL - Universidad del Rosario
Place: Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
Date: 17 – 19 August 2022
Keynote speakers:
Oriana Bandiera – Professor, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Juan Camilo Cárdenas – Professor, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts
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SEEDEC 2021
SEEDEC 2021
Host: FAIR
Place: online
Date: 7 October 2021
Keynote speakers:
Sule Alan - Professor of Economics, European University Institute
Alistair Munro – Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
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SEEDEC 2020
SEEDEC 2020
Postponed due to COVID-19
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SEEDEC 2019
SEEDEC 2019
Host: CEGA, Xlab
Place: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Date: 20 May 2019, 31 May 2019
Keynote speakers:
Stefano DellaVinga - Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration, UC Berkeley
Pam Jakiela – Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Williams College
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SEEDEC 2018
SEEDEC 2018
Host: Wageningen University the Netherlands
Place: Wageningen University the Netherlands, Wageningen, Netherlands
Date: 19 – 20 April 2018
Keynote speakers:
Alessandra Cassar – Professor of Economics, University of San Fransisco
Bertil Tungodden – Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
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SEEDEC 2017
SEEDEC 2017
2017 University of East Anglia
Host: UEA
Place: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Date: 20 – 21 April 2017
Keynote speakers:
Eliana La Ferrara – Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Macartan Humphreys – Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
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SEEDEC 2016
SEEDEC 2016
2016 Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Host: Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Place: Strathmore Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 12 – 13 July 2017
Keynote speakers:
Edward Miguel – Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics, Department of Economics,UC Berkeley; CEGA
Muriel Niederle – Levin Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Stanford University
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SEEDEC 2015
SEEDEC 2015
Host: Charles University, CERGE-EI
Place: CERGE-EI, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 10 – 11 December 2015
Keynote speakers:
Nava Ashraf – Professor in Economics, London School of Economics
Armin Falk – Professor of Economics, University of Bonn
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SEEDEC 2014
SEEDEC 2014
Host: NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Place: NHH, Bergen, Norway
Date: 10 – 11 December 2014
Keynote speakers:
Oriana Bandiera – Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Gary Charness – Professor of Economics, UC Santa Barbara
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SEEDEC 2013
SEEDEC 2013
Host: NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Place: NHH, Bergen, Norway
Date: December. 2013
Keynote speakers:
Abigal Barr – Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham
Charles Sprenger – Assistant Professor, Stanford University (now Professor, California Institute of Technology)
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SEEDEC 2012
SEEDEC 2012
2012 University of California, Berkeley
Host: CEGA, UC Berkeley
Place: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Date: 2012
Keynote speaker:
Sendhil Mullainathan – Professor, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Shachar Kariv - Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics; Department Chair, UC Berkeley
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SEEDEC 2011
SEEDEC 2011
2011 University of California, Berkeley
Host: UC Berkeley
Place: Berkeley, California, United States
Date: 2011
Speakers:
Nava Ashraf – Professor in Economics, London School of Economics
Colin Camerer - Professor, California Institute of Technology
Uri Gneezy - Professor, Rady School of Management
Chris Udry - Professor, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences