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, University of Oxford
September 6, 2018
Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
September 13, 2018
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, 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
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, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 25, 2018
Benjamin Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 1, 2018
Revolving Door MPs: Politician Turnover and Failed Accountability in Africa
Naureen Karachiwalla, International Food Policy Research Institute
November 8, 2018
Human Capital and Structural Transformation
Edward Miguel, University of California Berkeley
November 15, 2018
Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making Under Thermal Stress
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, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 6, 2018
Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation