15 March the prize for the best development research article written in 2016/17 by a young researcher living in Norway, will be awarded during the Chr. Michelsen lecture in the University aula at 6 pm. Who will it be?

Check out the candidates and read their articles:

Cecilia Salinas, University of Oslo 

"Et antropologisk blikk på REDDs mulig grønnere fremtid" in Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2017.

Tore Wiig, University of Oslo for the article

"Peace from the past: Pre-colonial political institutions and civil wars in Africa" in i Journal of Peace Research i 2016.

Liv Tønnessen, CMI

Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa published in Political Studies, (online in 2017, forthcoming in print in 2018)

Natalie M. Dyvesether, Prio

"Er politikk eller marked nøkkelen til likestilling i arbeidslivet? Effekten av politiske rettigheter og markedsliberalisering på kvinners økonomiske rettigheter, 1981-2011."

Published in Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift, 2017.

Vincent Somville, NHH, CMI

"Saving by default: Evidence from a field experiment in India"

Published in American Economic Journal (online in 2017, forthcoming in print in 2018).

Gyda Marås Sindre, University of Bergen

"Internal party democracy in former rebel parties" in Party Politics, 2017

Maja Janmyr, University of Oslo

"No country of asylum: ‘Legitimizing’ Lebanon’s rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention"

Published in International Journal of Refugee Law

Simon Reid-Henry, Prio

Just global health?

Published in Development and Change

Fenella Carpena, NUPI

"The ABCs of financial education: Experimental evidence on attitudes, behavior, and cognitive biases"

Published in Management Science

Nikolai Hegertun, Civita

"Veier ut av fattigdom"

Published as a Civita-Report'

Andreas Kotsadam, University of Oslo 

"Mining and local corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Published in American Journal of Political Science'

Yikai Wang, University of Oslo

"The Political Economy of the Middle-Income Trap: Implications for Potential Growth"

Published in Asian Development Review 

Jill Tove Buseth, Noragric, NMBU

"The green economy in Tanzania: from global discourses to institutionalization"

Published in Geoforum

Mikael Bergius, Noragric, NMBU

"Green Economy, Scandinavian Investments and Agricultural Modernization in Tanzania"

Publisert i Journal of Peasant Studies

C. J. Cavanagh, Noragric, NMBU

"Old wine, new bottles? Investigatoing the differential adoption of ‘climate-smart’ agricultural practices in Western Kenya"

Publisert i Journal of Rural Studies.

Kjersti Thorkildsen, Noragric, NMBU

"The contested nature of Afro-descendant quilombo land claims in Brazil"

Published in Journal of Peasant Studies

The winner receives recognition not only of the qulaity of his or her research, but also award for doing research with policy influence. The prize is 50 000 NOK.