Archive: Seminar Series – Fall 2018
Please note: All seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45pm in ICC 550
![Julien Labonne](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/labonne_julien.jpg)
Julien Labonne, University of Oxford
September 6, 2018
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
![Felipe Barrera-Osorio](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/barrera-osorio_felipe.jpg)
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 13, 2018
![Kehinde Ajayi](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/ajayi_kehinde.jpg)
Kehinde Ajayi, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, The World Bank
September 27, 2018
When What You Want is Not What You Need: Information and School Choice
![Michael Best](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/best_michael.jpg)
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
![Gerald Padró i Miquel](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/padro_i_miquel_gerald_0.png)
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
![Paul Dower](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/dower_paul.jpeg)
Paul Dower, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 25, 2018
![Benjamin Marx](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/marx_benjamin.jpeg)
Benjamin Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 1, 2018
Revolving Door MPs: Politician Turnover and Failed Accountability in Africa
![Naureen Karachiwalla](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/karachiwalla_naureen.png)
Naureen Karachiwalla, International Food Policy Research Institute
November 8, 2018
Human Capital and Structural Transformation
![Edward Miguel](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/miguel_ted.jpg)
Edward Miguel, University of California Berkeley
November 15, 2018
Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making Under Thermal Stress
![Paul Niehaus](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/niehaus_paul.jpg)
Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego
November 29, 2018
Authentication and targeted transfers: experimental evidence from India (lecture held in the Mortara Center)
![Laura Schechter](https://gui2de.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2019/07/schechter_laura.jpg)
Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 6, 2018
Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation