Seminar Series Spring 2015

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

Lori Beaman

Northwestern
5 February 2015

Self‐Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Taryn Dinkelman

Dartmouth

12 February 2015

The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human
Capital Formation in Communities of Origin

Joana Naritomi

LSE

19 February 2015

Consumers as Tax Auditors

Rema Hanna

Harvard

Postponed

Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations
of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Francois Gerard

Columbia

Postponed

Hysteresis and the Social Cost of Corrective Policies:
Evidence from a Temporary Energy Saving Program

Mark Rosenzweig

Yale

19 March 2015

Networks and Misallocation: Insurance,
Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap

Molly Lipscomb

UVA

26 March 2015

The Cross, the Crescent, or the Crown: An RCT Testing the
Effectiveness of Local Religious and Secular Leaders

Siwan Anderson

UBC

16 April 2015

Legal Origins and HIV

Tavneet Suri

MIT

23 April 2015

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Owen Ozier

World Bank

30 April 2015

Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-term
Benefits of Early Childhood Deworming

Arthur Alik-Lagrange

TSE

7 May 2015