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Development Research Group Winter 2024 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Monday January 8, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Florian Grosset (Columbia University) | |
| Tuesday January 9, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Lisa Ho (MIT) | |
| Wednesday January 10, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Louise Paul-Delvaux (Harvard University) | |
| Thursday January 11, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Emilia Brito (Brown University) | |
Tuesday |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Yulu Tang (Harvard University) |
Note: Due to inclement weather, this seminar was moved from January 16 |
| Thursday January 18, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Felipe Camelo (New York University) | |
| Monday January 22, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Emir Murathanoglu (Michigan University) | |
| Tuesday January 23, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Layane Alhorr (Harvard KSG) | |
| Wednesday January 24, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Marie-Louise Decamps (Northwestern University) | |
| Thursday January 25, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Zhenxuan Wang (Duke University) | |
| Monday January 29, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Fabrizio Leone (ECARES) | |
| Tuesday January 30, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Amory Gethin (PSE) | |
| Wednesday January 31, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Mahounan Yedomiffi (UIUC) |
Fall 2023 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday August 30, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Adam Osman (University of Illinois at Urbana Chapaign) | |
| Wednesday September 6, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Reshmaan Hussam (Harvard Business School) | The Household at Work: Evidence from a Refugee Camp |
| Wednesday September 13, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Teresa Molina (University of Hawaii) | |
| Wednesday September 20, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Monica Lambon-Quayefio (University of Ghana) | Technology Options for Labour Market Efficiency: Emerging Evidence from Ghana |
| Wednesday September 27, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Lucas Zavala (DIME, 香港六合彩资料) | Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade |
| Wednesday October 4, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota) | |
| Wednesday October 11, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guilherme Lichand (Stanford Graduate School of Education) | |
| Wednesday October 18, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Louis Preonas (University of Maryland) | Blackouts: The Role of India’s Wholesale Electricity Market |
| Wednesday October 25, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sarah Deschênes (Northwestern University) | |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Tarek Ghani (Washington University) | Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises? |
| Wednesday November 8, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (University of Maryland) | Effect of Referring Business Partners on Firm Networks and Performance |
| Wednesday November 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute) | |
| Wednesday November 29, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) | Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation on Social Pressure and Relative Ranks |
| Wednesday December 6, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University) | The Effects of a STEM High School Curriculum |
Spring 2023 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Samuel Bazzi (UCSD) | |
| Wednesday February 22, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Eoin McGuirk (Tufts) | Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa |
| Wednesday March 1, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Saravana Ravindran (National University of Singapore) | Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica |
| Wednesday March 8, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (UPenn, UAB) | Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village |
| Wednesday March 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guy Grossman (UPenn) | |
| Tuesday March 21, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 2-520 | Julian Jamison (University of Exeter) | Empirical Facts about Normative Values and Evaluating the Future Note: This seminar is co-sponsored by eMBed and the Poverty & Equity Global Practice |
| Wednesday March 22, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diana Moreira (UC Davis) | |
| Wednesday March 29, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jonas Hjort (University Colleage London) | Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies |
| Wednesday April 5, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Claudio Ferraz (U British Columbia) | When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians |
| Wednesday April 12, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Namrata Kala (MIT) | Environmental Permits, Regulatory Capacity, and Firm Outcomes |
| Wednesday April 19, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile) | Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá |
| Wednesday April 26, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U) | |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Fred Finan (UC Berkeley) | |
| Wednesday May 10, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Simon Quinn (University of Oxford) | |
| Wednesday May 17, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Garance Genicot (Georgetown U) | Measuring Upward Mobility |
| Wednesday May 24, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ethan Ligon (UC Berkeley) | |
| Wednesday May 31, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Paulina Oliva (USC) | Targeting Subsidies through Price Menus: Contract Design and Evidence from Clean Fuels |
| Wednesday June 7, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Matias Busso (IDB) | |
| CANCELLED Wednesday June 14, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Diana Contreras Suarez (University of Melbourne) | Swaying Gender Norms Around Women’s Work in Indonesia: Evidence from an Online Intervention |
Development Research Group Winter 2023 Seminar Series
This short and intense spring series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Monday January 9, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Diana Sverdlin Lisker | Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico |
| Tuesday January 10, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Suzanna Khalifa | Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price |
| Wednesday January 11, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Garima Sharma | Monopsony and Gender |
| Thursday January 12, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Ruozi Song | Pollution Taxes as a Second-Best: Accounting for Multidimensional Firm Heterogeneity in Environmental Regulations |
| Tuesday January 17, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Heitor Sandes Pellegrina | Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West |
| Wednesday January 18, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Juanma Castro-Vincenz | Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry |
| Thursday January 19, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Katherine Stapleton | AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India |
| Monday January 23, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Dario Tortarolo | Can VAT Cuts on Foodstuffs Dampen the Effects of Inflation? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Argentina |
| Tuesday January 24, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Jonah Rexer | The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector |
| Wednesday January 25, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Anna Vitali | Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda |
| Thursday January 26, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Livia Alfonsi | Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors |
| Monday January 30, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Binta Zahra Diop | Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation |
| Tuesday January 31, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET |
MC 3-570 | Shafaat Yar Khan | Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty |
Fall 2022 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday September 7, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Tom Vogl (UCSD) | |
| Wednesday September 14, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Alessandra Voena (Stanford) | |
| Wednesday September 21, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | David McKenzie (香港六合彩资料) | Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia? |
| Wednesday September 28, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Jishnu Das (Georgetown) | Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets |
| Wednesday October 5, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 4-301 | Mauricio Romero (ITAM) | COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India |
| Wednesday October 12, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-850 | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) | Seasonal Poverty, Remittance Constraints, and Loans |
| CANCELED Wednesday October 19, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | Note that this seminar has been canceled. | Frank Schilbach (MIT) | |
| Wednesday October 26, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago) | |
| Wednesday November 2, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Michela Carlana (Harvard University) | |
| Wednesday November 9, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Christina Brown (University of Chicago) | |
| Wednesday November 16, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Marie Christelle Mabeu (Stanford University) | Colonial Origins of Fertility Behaviors: Evidence on the Role of Forced Labor Migration in Burkina Faso |
| Wednesday November 30, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Arthur Blouin (University of Toronto) | Enforce or Entrust? Experimental Evidence on Combating Corruption |
| Wednesday December 7, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 4-301 | Megan Lang (香港六合彩资料) | |
| Wednesday December 14, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Jeanne Lafortune (PUC Chile) |
Spring 2022 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| February 17, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Oeindrila Dube (U of Chicago) |
Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan |
| February 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Clare Balboni (MIT) | |
| March 3, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern U) |
Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning |
| March 17, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Susan Athey (Stanford) | Shared Decision-Making about Contraception: An Adaptive Experiment |
| March 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Muhammad Yasir Khan (U of Pittsburgh) | Mission motivation and public sector performance: Experimental evidence from Pakistan |
| March 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics) | Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions |
| April 7, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley) | |
| April 21, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Rohini Pande (Yale) | Updating the State: Information Acquisition Costs and Public Benefit Delivery |
| April 28, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Siwan Anderson (U British Columbia) | |
| May 5, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Martine Visser (U Cape Town) | Image Motivation for Pro-social Behavior: Evidence from South Africa |
| May 12, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Benoit Decerf (香港六合彩资料) | The Poverty-adjusted Life Expectancy Index: A consistent aggregation of the quantity and the quality of life |
| May 26, 2022 | 9:45 - 11:00am | Online | Junjie Zhang (Duke Kunshan) | Carbon Leakage within Firm Ownership Networks |
Development Research Group Winter 2022 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Paper |
| January 10, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Jacobus Cilliers (Georgetown University) | |
| January 11, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Jean-Fran?ois Gauthier (Boston College) |
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| January 12, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Caue Dobbin (Stanford University) | |
| January 13, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Niharika Singh (Columbia University) | |
| January 14, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Carolina Lopez (Brown University) | |
| January 18, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Maria Jose Carreras Valle (University of Minnesota) | |
| January 19, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University) | |
| January 20, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:15pm EST | Zeina Hasna (University of Cambridge) | |
| January 21, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Shoumitro Chatterjee (Pennsylvania State University) | |
| January 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Kim Fe Cramer (Columbia Business School) | |
| January 25, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern University) | |
| January 26, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Carlos Burga (Princeton University) | |
| January 27, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:15pm EST | Federica Zeni (Imperial College London) | |
| January 28, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Manuel García-Santana (Princeton University) | |
| January 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Mayara Felix (MIT) |
Development Research Group Fall 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Natalia Rigol (Harvard Business School) |
Strategic Disclosure of Loan Officers and Graduation From Microfinance: Evidence from Chile |
| Thursday September 9, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Alex Eble (Columbia University) |
When bootstraps aren’t enough: Aspirations, learning, and educational supply in a low-income context |
| Thursday September 23, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University) |
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| Thursday September 30, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) |
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence |
| Thursday October 7, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Pia Raffler (Harvard) |
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| Thursday October 14, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes) |
Political Incentives and Corruption: Evidence from Ghost Students |
| Thursday October 28, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Luis Martinez (Chicago Harris) |
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| Thursday November 4, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Sandra Rozo (香港六合彩资料) |
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| Thursday November 11, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School) |
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| Thursday December 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Matt Lowe (UBC) |
Religious Revival and Social Order |
| Thursday December 16, 2021 |
12:30 – 1:45 pm EST | Online | Anja Sautmann (香港六合彩资料) | Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls to Encourage Home Reading with Children in Kenya |
Development Research Group Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday February 25, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST |
Online | Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton) | Gangs, labor mobility and development |
| Thursday March 4, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST |
Online | Zoe Cullen (Harvard) |
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap |
Thursday |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Raymond Fisman (Boston U) |
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| Thursday March 18, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Treb Allen (Dartmouth) |
Trucks |
| Thursday April 8, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Oriana Bandiera (LSE) |
The Long Shadow of Viral Pandemics |
| Thursday April 22, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Sara Lowes (Harvard) |
Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior |
| Thursday May 6, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Manisha Shah (UCLA) |
Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence |
| Thursday May 13, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley) |
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| Thursday May 27, 2021 |
3:30 - 4:45 pm EDT | Online | Leslie Martin (U Melbourne) |
Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity |
Development Research Group Winter 2020/21 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| December 16, 2020 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Sandra Rozo (USC Marshall School of Business) | |
| December 17, 2020 | 1:30 - 2:45pm EST | Video | Gaurav Khanna (UC San Diego) | Why Do the Youth Join Gangs? Employment and Crime in Medellin (Links: | | ) |
| January 7, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Vesall Nourani (MIT) | ||
| January 11, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Gabriel Tourek (MIT) | |
| January 12, 2021 | 10:30 - 11:45am EST | Video | Elisa Macchi (Zurich) | |
| January 13, 2021 | 1:30 - 2:45pm EST | Video | Stephanie Owen (University of Michigan) | |
| January 14, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Sergio Villalvazo (UPenn) | |
| January 19, 2021 | 10:30 - 11:45am EST | Video | Inês Xavier (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) | |
| January 20, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Filipe Correia (Illinois) | |
| January 21, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Gabriel Englander (Berkeley) | |
| January 25, 2021 | 11:00 - 12:15pm EST | Video | Patricia Sun (Harvard) | |
| January 27, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Christoph Albert (CEMFI) | |
| January 28, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Matias Moretti (NYU) | |
| February 1, 2021 | 10:30 - 11:45am EST | Video | Vu Chau (Harvard) | |
| February 2, 2021 | 10:30 - 11:45am EST | Video | Allan Hsiao (MIT) | |
| February 3, 2021 | 10:30 - 11:45am EST | Video | Joana Duran-Franch (Toulouse) | |
| February 4, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:15pm EST | Video | Megan Lang (Berkeley) |
Development Research Group Fall 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 10 |
12:30 - 1:45 | Online | Ruixue Jia (UCSD) |
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Academic Talent and Firm Creation in China |
| Thursday September 24 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Maximilian Kasy (Oxford) | How to Run an Adaptive Field Experiment Slides: Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice |
| Thursday October 1 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Webex | Shanjun Li (Cornell Dyson) |
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| Thursday October 8 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | David Yang (Harvard) |
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| Thursday October 15 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Gaurav Khanna (UCSD) |
The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China |
| Thursday October 29 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Gilles Duranton |
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| Thursday November 5 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Kate Baldwin (Yale) |
When Do Foreign Aid Projects Inflate Support for Incumbents? Voter Information and Political Oversight in Uganda |
| Thursday November 12 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Manuela Angelucci (UT Austin) |
Mental Health Care, Depression, and Economic Behavior: Evidence from India |
| Thursday December 3 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) | |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | 12:30 – 1:45 pm | Online | Christopher Neilson (Princeton) |
Spring 2020 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday Feb 26 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Suresh Naidu |
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| Wednesday Mar 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Thomas Fujiwara |
Local Politicians and the Deforestation of the Amazon |
| Wednesday Mar 11 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Gilles Duranton |
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| Wednesday Mar 25 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Fred Finan |
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| Wednesday Apr 1 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Alvaro Pedraza |
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| Wednesday Apr 8 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Arik Levinson |
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| Wednesday Apr 15 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 4-001/G 7-140 | Oeindrila Dube (Chicago Harris) CANCELLED |
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| Wednesday Apr 22 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Zoe Cullen |
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| Wednesday Apr 29 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | CANCELLED
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| Wednesday May 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 |
Emmanuelle Auriol |
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| Wednesday May 13 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Anne Karing |
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| Wednesday May 20 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Manisha Shah |
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| Wednesday May 27 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Sara Heller |
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| Wednesday Jun 3 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Basit Zafar |
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| Wednesday Oct 28 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Manuela Angelucci (UT) |
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Fall 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Sep 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Austin Wright (Chicago Harris) | |
| Sep 11 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Ben Olken (MIT) | |
| Sep 18 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Jonathan Colmer (UVA) | The Economics of Marine Conservation |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Karen Macours (PSE) | Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years |
| Oct 2 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Rosella Calvi (Rice) | |
| Oct 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) | |
| Oct 16 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 8-090 | Rodrigo Soares (Columbia SIPA) | |
| Oct 23 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern Kellogg) | |
| Oct 30 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Natalie Bau (UCLA) | |
| Nov 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Jie Bai (HKS) | Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover and Industrial Quality Upgrading |
| Nov 13 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Sylvie Lambert (PSE) | |
| Dec 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do (香港六合彩资料) | Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents: Habit Formation and Optimal Water Pricing in Vietnam |
| Dec 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | John Firth (University of Notre Dame) |
Spring 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Feb 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Frank Schilbach (MIT) | Does Poverty Lower Productivity? |
| March 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto) | |
| March 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Xavier Gine (香港六合彩资料) | |
| March 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alessandra Voena (Chicago) | |
| March 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jeremy Magruder (Berkeley) | Irrigation in Rwanda: Farmers' responses to a massive change in the production possibility frontier |
| April 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Johannes Haushofer (Princeton) | General Equilibrium Welfare Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya |
| April 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 8-090 | Lucie Gadenne (Warwick) | |
| April 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Maureen Cropper (UMD) | ? |
| April 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Chicago) | |
| May 1 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Esther Duflo (MIT) | Leveraging Data Science, Experiments, and Informal Social Networks to Improve Immunization in India |
| May 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Siwan Anderson (UBC) | Marriage, Commitment and Social Norms: Theory and Evidence from Egypt |
| May 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Joana Naritomi (LSE) | |
| May 22 | No seminar |
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| May 29 | No seminar | |||
| June 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Andrew Foster (Brown) | |
| June 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mar Reguant (Northwestern) | Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets |
| June 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Cormac O'Dea (Yale) | |
| June 26 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tristan Reed (香港六合彩资料) |
Fall 2018 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Julien Labonne (University of Oxford) | |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Felipe Barrera-Osorio (HGSE) | |
| Sep 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Attila Ambrus (Duke) | |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Giacomo de Giorgi (Geneva) | From Farmers to Entrepreneurs |
| Oct 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gabriel Kreindler (Chicago/ Harvard) | |
| Oct 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rachael Meager (LSE) | |
| Oct 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gerard Padro-i-Miguel (Yale) | |
| Oct 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Paul Dower (Wisconsin) | |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po) | |
| Nov 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mark Agerton (UC Davis) | |
| Nov 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Ted Miguel (Berkeley) | |
| Nov 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jessica Goldberg (UMD) | |
| Dec 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of 香港六合彩资料 headquarters. |
| Dec 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Sean Higgins (Berkeley) |
2018 Spring Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| June 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson | |
| June 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Oyebola Okunogbe | |
| June 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Fernanda Brollo | |
| June 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alex Anas | |
| May 30 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Aislinn Bohren | |
| May 23 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hoyt Bleakley | A Nudge to School: Triangulating the Gains |
| May 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby | |
| May 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mushfiq Mobarak | Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh |
| May 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Kristian Behrens | |
| April 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Owen Ozier/ Pam Jakiela | |
| April 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alwyn Young | |
| April 11 |
12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Verhoogen | Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia |
| April 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Clement Imbert | |
| March 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gautam Rao | The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans |
| March 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Supreet Kaur | |
| March 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anna Alberini | |
| Feb 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Edmonds | The Transmission of Gender Norms |
2017 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Dec 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Daniel Mahler | |
| Dec 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Asim Khwaja (HKS) | Crossing Boundaries: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints for Women |
| Nov 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Juliano Assuncao (PUC-Rio, Brazil) | Electrification, Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil |
| Nov 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jishnu Das (香港六合彩资料) | Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools |
| Nov 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Paul Niehaus (UCSD) | General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India | |
| Nov 1 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anthony Keats (Wesleyan) | What Can We Learn from Babies Born During Health-Worker Strikes? |
| Oct 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Robyn Meeks (Duke) | |
| Oct 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda |
| Oct 11 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | I 4-020 | Henrik Kleven (LSE Princeton) | Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark |
| Oct 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Emily Breza (Harvard) | Information Delivery Under Endogenous Communication: Evidence from the Indian Demonetization |
| Sep 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Shing-Yi Wang (Wharton) | Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China |
| Sep 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (Maryland) | |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Francisco Ferreira | Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequalityin Brazil, 1995-2012 |
| Sept 6 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Antonio Bento, USC, NBER; Kevin Roth, UC-Irvine; Andrew Waxman, Arizona State University | |
| Jun 28 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby, 香港六合彩资料 | Decentralizing Rent-seeking: Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin |
| Jun 22 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do, 香港六合彩资料 | On the Speculative Poaching of African Elephants |
| Jun 14 |
12:30 – 2:00 pm |
MC 3-570 | Vivian Hoffmann, International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| Jun 7 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| May 31 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| May 24 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| May 17 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Child health after a natural disaster | |
| May 3 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| Apr 26 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 |
Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Agents or Local Governments? | |
| Apr 12 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| Apr 5 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tarek Ghani, Washington University of St. Louis | |
| Mar 29 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC3-570 | Amy Ando, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Reducing climate-related uncertainty in outcomes of investments: When does spatial conservation portfolio diversification work best? |
| Mar 22 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| Mar 15 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | ||
| Mar 8 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 |
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