Seminar Series Spring 2019
A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge research in development economics.
Please note: All seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45 pm in ICC 550
Horacio Larreguy Arbesú
Harvard University
February 21, 2019
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election
Jeremy Bowles
Horacio Larreguy
Rebecca Thornton
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 28, 2019
Alessandra Voena
University of Chicago
March 21, 2019
Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Lucia Corno
Nicole Hildebrandt
Alessandra Voena
Jeremy Magruder
University of California, Berkeley
March 28, 2019
Irrigation in Rwanda: Farmers’ responses to a massive expansion of the production possibility frontier
Lucie Gadenne
University of Warwick
April 11, 2019
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
April 25, 2019
Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences
Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 2, 2019