Workshop “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD)”

March 13-14, 2025, University of Göttingen, Germany

Paper presentations either answer novel questions in economics, political science, and other social sciences, or propose methodological advances related to the challenge of analyzing geocoded aid data. Authors of accepted proposals received pre-publication access to the GODAD so that they can present a draft paper at the workshop. Early access to GODAD will be granted under the condition that the dataset and resulting working papers will not be shared outside the group of workshop participants prior to the official release of the GODAD at the data workshop.

The workshop will take place in the picturesque university town of Göttingen. Göttingen has a vibrant academic atmosphere and is located centrally in Germany, between Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Berlin (1.5-2 hours by high-speed train), making it easily accessible. We will convene at the Göttingen Observatory, which served as the place of residence and work of famous scholar Carl Friedrich Gauss and is a building of unique importance for the history of science.

The workshop is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung through the funding scheme Momentum as part of the research project “Tapping innovative data sources to analyze the impact of authoritarian states on global development.” There is no conference fee but participants are required to pay their own travel and accommodation.

The deadline for the submission of a one-page proposal (September 30, 2024) has passed and decisions have been sent out in mid-October.

Organizers

Pietro Bomprezzi, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, and Silvia Marchesi (on behalf of all GODAD authors)

Program Committee