Seminar Series Fall 2017

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

Fernanda Brollo

University of Warwick

September 14, 2017

To the Victor Belongs the Spoils? Party Membership and Public Sector
Employment in Brazil

Hanan Jacoby

World Bank Group

September 21, 2017

Decentralizing Rent-seeking: Water and Power in Pakistan’s Indus Basin

Shing-Yi Wang

Wharton School

September 28, 2017

Access to Migration for Rural Households

Emily Breza

Harvard University

October 5, 2017

Information Delivery Under Endogenous Communication: Experimental Evidence from the Indian Demonetization

Isaac Mbiti

University of Virginia

October 12, 2017

Addressing Youth Unemployment Through Training and Grants: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Imran Rasul

University College London

October 19, 2017

Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

Samuel Bazzi

Boston University

October 26, 2017

Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of “Rugged Individualism” in the United States

Tom S. Vogl

Princeton University

November 2, 2017

Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico

Tim Besley

London School of Economics

November 9, 2017

State Capacity, Peace and Development (lecture held in Riggs Library)

Remi Jedwab

George Washington University

November 16, 2017

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Pamela Jakiela

University of Maryland

November 30, 2017

Gendered Language

Asim Khwaja

Harvard Kennedy School

December 7, 2017