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Eleonora Nillesen
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ETH Zürich
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Contents
| 1. Research Interests | 2. Publications | 3. Presentations |
| 4. Teaching | 5. Working Experience | 6. Education |
| 7. Grants and Awards |
1. Research Interests
| Development economics; economics of violent conflict; impact evaluation; experimental economics focussing on postwar reconstruction |
2. Publications
Nillesen, E. and P. Verwimp (2010): A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in rural Burundi. Microcon Research Working Paper 25.
Nillesen, E., and P. Verwimp (2010): Grievance, Commodity Prices and Rainfall: A Village-level analysis of Rebel recruitment in Burundi. Microcon Research Working Paper 11.
Voors, M., Nillesen, E., Verwimp, P. Bulte, E., Lensink, R. and D. van Soest (2009): Do shocks of civil war alter social, risk and time preferences? Results from field experiments in Burundi. Mimeo.
de Ree, J., and E. Nillesen (2009): Aiding violence or Peace? The impact of foreign aid on the risk of civil conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Development Economics 88 pp. 301-313.
Nillesen, E., and M. Voors (2007): Benevolent Intentions, Detrimental Effects? Assessing the short run effects of Aid on Governance. Mansholt Discussion Paper
Nillesen, E., Wesseler, J. and A. Cook (2005): Correcting for multiple destination trips in recreational use values. An application to Bellenden Ker National Park, Australia Environmental Management 36 (2) pp. 311-316.
Kuosmanen, T., Nillesen, E., and J. Wesseler (2004): Does ignoring multi-destination trips in the Travel Cost Method cause a systematic bias? Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 48 (4) pp. 629-651.
Ruijgrok, E., and E. Nillesen (2004): The Socio-Economic Value of Natural Riverbanks in the Netherlands. FEEM Working Paper No. 64.04.
3. Presentations
| Jun 2009 | Jan Tinbergen Peace Conference |
| Mar 2009 | CSAE Conference Oxford University (with co-author P. Verwimp) |
| Dec 2008 | Invited Lunch Seminar Harvard Kennedy School of Government (with co-author P. Verwimp) |
| Dec 2008 | HICN annual workshop Yale University |
| Mar 2008 | Invited Lunch Seminar CSAE Oxford University (with co-author Joppe de Ree) |
| Mar 2008 | CSAE Conference Oxford University |
| Jun 2007 | Jan Tinbergen Peace Conference |
| May 2006 | Spring meeting for young economists, Sevilla |
4. Teaching
| Apr 2009 |
Lecturer MSc course ‘Methods, Techniques and Data Analysis for Field Research’ |
| May 2006 - Dec 2006 | Assistant lecturer BSc courses, Wageningen University. |
5. Working Experience
| Mar 2009 - Apr 2009 | Training and supervision of randomized field experiments and household surveys in 35 villages in rural Burundi among 500 participants |
| Aug 2007 - Sep 2007 | Implementation of household and community level surveys in Burundi, in cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics in Burundi (ISTEEBU) |
| Dec 2006 - Feb 2007 | Assistant for the second HICN workshop Antwerp, 2007 |
| Jan 2005 - Apr 2006 | Researcher Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University |
| Nov 2002 - Dec 2004 | Environmental economist at Witteveen+Bos B.V., Rotterdam |
| May 2002 - Oct 2002 | Research-assistant and tutor for the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University |
| Jun 2001 - Sep 2001 | Design and implementation of visitor surveys to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Site in Queensland, Australia |
| Sep 2000 - Nov 2000 | Tutor at the Development Economics Group, Wageningen University |
| Mar 2000 - Sep 2000 | Fieldwork in the Machakos District, Kenya: collecting primary and secondary socio-economic rural household data, in cooperation with the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). |
6. Education
| June 2010 | PhD Economics Wageningen University |
| Mar 2007 - June 2010 |
PhD student Development Economics Group, Wageningen University in cooperation with DIW Berlin/ETH Zürich |
| Nov 2002 |
Wageningen University, Master in Agricultural and Environmental Economics, with specializations in environmental and development economics |
| Jun 2001 - Feb 2002 |
MSc thesis at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia |
| Jan 1999 - May 1999 |
Socrates exchange student at the University of Life Sciences Ås, Norway. Coursework in environmental and natural resource economics and quantitative methods in development economics |
7. Grants and Awards
| 2010 | Annual Grant Competition United States Institute of Peace |
| Apr 2002 | C.T. de Wit MSc Thesis Award, Wageningen University |
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