SEEDEC - Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries

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).

  • 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
  • SEEDEC 2024

    SEEDEC 2024

    2024 FAIR NHH

    Host: Norwegian School of Economics

    Place: Bergen, Norway

    Date: 12 - 13 June 2024

    Keynote speakers: 

  • SEEDEC 2023

    SEEDEC 2023

    2023 GRIPS 

    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. 

  • SEEDEC 2022

    SEEDEC 2022

    2022 rEBEL

    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

    2021 FAIR Online

    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

  • SEEDEC 2020

    SEEDEC 2020

    Postponed due to COVID-19

    More information here 

  • SEEDEC 2019

    SEEDEC 2019

    2019 CEGA

    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

  • SEEDEC 2018

    SEEDEC 2018

    2018 Wageningen University

    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

  • 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

  • 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 

  • SEEDEC 2015

    SEEDEC 2015

    2015 CERGE-EI

    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

  • SEEDEC 2014

    SEEDEC 2014

    2014 NHH

    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 

  • SEEDEC 2013

    SEEDEC 2013

    2013 NHH

    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)

  • 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

  • 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

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