AØKK08421U Cancelled Cancelled - Seminar: Forced Displacement and Economic Development - cancelled

Volume 2021/2022
Education

MSc programme in Economics

The seminar is primarily for students at the MSc of Economics

Content

Forcibly displaced populations and their hosts have received little attention in applied development economics. The main reason for this gap is lack of household survey data. In recent years more household survey data sampling forcibly displaced and their hosts has been collected, enabling the production of original evidence on the socio-economic conditions on these populations, a key element needed for efficient programming of inclusion and protection policies of refugees, internally displaced and host communities.

The class will offer a broad overview of the state of the knowledge on forced displacement and economic displacement in low and middle-income countries and direct students to newly available household survey data for these populations. In their class papers, students will be expected to produce empirical evidence using this data and a topic of their choice.

Suggested topics could include: Gender gaps among forcibly displaced populations; the determinants of access to labor markets for refugees in low and middle income countries; the constraints to financial inclusion for the forcibly displaced in poor settings.

Learning Outcome

After completing the seminar the student is expected to be able to fulfill the learning outcome specified in the Master curriculum and to be able to:

- Knowledge: Students are expected to learn about the economic drivers and implications of forced displacement in low and middle-income countries

- Skills: Students will develop skills related to applied micro-econometrics, including data analytics using statistical packages such as Stata or R.

- Competences: Research oriented thinking (defining research question, specifying a statistical model, read and interpret estimates from the model

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BSc in Economics or similar
TStata or R basic coding skills.
Applied microeconomics.
At the seminar the student is trained independently to
- identify and clarify a problem,
- seek and select relevant literatur,
- write a academic paper,
- present and discuss own paper with the other students at the seminar.

Mandatory activities in the seminar:
- Kick-off meeting
- Finding literatur and defining the project
- Writing process of the seminar paper
- Presentation of own project and paper
- Giving constructive feedback to another student´s paper
- Actively participating in discussions at the presentations and other meetings.

The aim of the presentations is, that you use the presentation as an opportunity to practice oral skills and to receive feedback at the paper. The presentations are not a part of the exam and will not be assessed.

The seminar project paper must be uploaded in Absalon before the presentations, as the opponents and the other seminar participants have to read and comment on the paper. It is important that you upload a paper that is so finalized as possible due to the fact that the value of feedback and comments at the presentation is strongly associated with the skill level of the seminar paper.
The teacher defines what materials may be used for the presentations.

After the presentations, you can with a few corrections improve the seminar paper by including the feedback and comments emerged during the presentations. It is NOT intended that you rewrite or begin the writing of the seminar paper after the presentation has taken place.

Pandemic:
In case of a pandemic like Corona the teaching in this seminar may be changed to be taught either fully or partly online. For further information, see the course room on Absalon.
Schedule Fall 2021: (Note: The seminar is cancelled!)

- Kick-off meeting:
September 6th - 8.15-10.00am.

- Extra meetings / introductory teaching / guidance:
September 13th - 8.15-10.00am.
September 20th - 8.15-10.00am.

- Deadline for submission of commitment paper / project description:
No later than 1 October. By October 1st close of business.

- Deadline for uploading a seminar assignment paper in Absalon:
Thursday November 11th - 8.15-10.00am.

- Presentations:
Friday November 19th - 8.15-10.00am.

- Exam date:
1 December at 10.00 (am) - latest uploading of Seminar paper to the Digital Exam portal for assessment.

All information regarding the seminar is communicated through Absalon including venue. So it is very important that you by yourself logon to Absalon and read the information already when you are registered at the seminar.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Project work
  • 186
  • Seminar
  • 20
  • Total
  • 206
Written
Oral
Individual
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester

Students will receive feedback on their class paper and presentation. Written feedback on the paper toward peer-review journals standards and research ideas for further work in the perspective of engaging in a PhD program. On the presentation, the oral feedback will include advice on rhetoric and presentation technics for participation in future research seminar and conferences.

Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written examination
A seminar paper in English that meets the formal requirements for written papers stated in the curriculum and at KUNet for seminars.
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Exam registration requirements

Attendance in all  activities at the seminar as stated in the formal requrements in the Curriculum  and at the KUnet for Seminars (UK)  and  Seminars (DK)  is required to participate in the exam.

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Aid
All aids allowed

for the seminar paper.

The teacher defines the aids that must be used for the presentations.

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Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
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Exam period

Regular exam:

Spring 2021:
Deadline for submitting the final seminar paper: December 1, 2021 before 10 AM

Exam information:

The seminar paper must be uploaded to the Digital Exam. More information will be available from the middle of the semester.

 

More information about examination, rules, aids etc. at Master (UK) and Master (DK ).

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Re-exam

Reexam information:

The reexam is a written seminar paper as stated in the Curriculum.

Deadline and more information is available at Seminars(UK) and Seminars(DK).

More information about reexam etc is available at Master(UK)andMaster(DK).

Criteria for exam assesment

Students are assessed on the extent to which they master the learning outcome for the seminar and can make use of the knowledge, skills and competencies listed in the learning outcomes in the Curriculum of the Master programme.

 

To receive the top grade, the student must with no or only a few minor weaknesses be able to demonstrate an excellent performance displaying a high level of command of all aspects of the relevant material.