Seminar Series Fall 2016

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

Anja Sautmann

Brown University

September 8, 2016

Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Maui

Kyle Emerick

Tufts University

September 15, 2016

Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India

Cynthia Kinnan

Northwestern University

September 22, 2016

Measuring the equilibrium impacts of credit: Evidence from the Indian microfinance crisis

Anant Nyshadham

Boston College

September 29, 2016

Soft Skills to Pay the Bills: Evidence from Female Garment Workers

Jing Cai

Michigan University

~~October 6, 2016~~ – cancelled

Simone Schaner

Dartmouth University

October 13, 2016

An Account of One’s Own: Can Targeting Benefits Payments Address Social Constraints to Labor Force Participation?

Sam Bazzi

Boston University

October 20, 2016

Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict

Jenny Aker

Tufts University

October 27, 2016

Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger

Lorenzo Casaburi

University of Zurich

November 3, 2016

Competition and Interlinkages in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach

Toan Do

World Bank

November 10, 2016

Anjali Adukia

University of Chicago

November 17, 2016

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction

Maisy Wong

University of Pennsylvania

December 1, 2016