Seminar Series Fall 2018
A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge research in development economics.
Please note: All seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45pm in ICC 550
Julien Labonne
University of Oxford
September 6, 2018
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Cesi Cruz
Philip Keefer
Julien Labonne
Francesco Trebbi
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 13, 2018
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Andreas de Barros
Deon Filmer
Attila Ambrus
Duke University
September 20, 2018
Michael Best
Columbia University
October 4, 2018
Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Rachael Meager
London School of Economics
October 11, 2018
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Yale University
October 18, 2018
The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Evidence on the Autocrat’s Trade-off
Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao
Paul Dower
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 25, 2018
Benjamin Marx
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 1, 2018
Revolving Door MPs: Politician Turnover and Failed Accountability in Africa
Laura Schechter
University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 6, 2018