Seminar Series - Spring 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
Jonas Hjort,
Columbia University
March 2, 2017
Family Ties and Trade between Firms
Duncan Thomas,
Duke University
March 16, 2017
Child Health After a Natural Disaster
Jing Cai,
University of Maryland
March 23, 2017
Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
Jere Behrman,
University of Pennsylvania
March 30, 2017
Early-Life Undernourishment in Developing Countries: Prevalence, Impacts Over the Life Cycle and Determinants
Tarek Ghani,
Washington University in St. Louis
April 6, 2017
Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency and the Default Effect in Afghanistan
Nathan Nunn,
Harvard University
April 20, 2017
Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
S Anukriti,
Boston College
April 27, 2017
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
See past seminars here.