Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2026
Welcome to the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) which will be held in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16–17, 2026. This yearly conference serves as a meeting point for development economists active in the Nordic countries, but is also targeted more generally to academic researchers in Europe and beyond with a special aim to provide an arena for junior scholars to present their work.
Keynote speakers
Johannes Haushofer
Johannes Haushofer is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Cornell University.
His research interests lie in development economics and behavioral economics. He is the founder of Busara, a non-profit that advances and applies behavioral science in pursuit of poverty alleviation; and Malengo, an organization that facilitates international migration. He holds a BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy from Oxford, a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard, and a PhD in Economics from Zurich.
Jonas Hjort
Jonas Hjort is Professor of Economics at University College London and the University of Oslo.
His research is on development economics and overlapping fields of economics, with a particular focus on production and consumption, broadly construed—firms, organizations, workers, and consumers—in (and affecting) developing countries. Jonas’ research has paid particular attention to the intersection of individual and organizational behaviors.
Rohini Somanathan
Rohini Somanathan is Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.
Her research focuses on how social institutions interact with public policies to shape patterns of economic and social inequality. She is particularly interested in exploring the intellectual and ideological environment within which state policy is created and justified. Within the broad area of development economics, she has worked on group identity and public goods, gender equality, child nutrition, and environmental quality.
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