Spring 2014 Seminar Series

Ben Olken (MIT)
Paper: “Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Incentive Pay for Tax Collectors”
January 16th, 2014
Old North 205 
12:00-1:45pm

David Weil (Brown University)
Paper: “Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait”
January 30th, 2014
ICC 550
4:15pm-5:45pm 

Chris Blattman (Columbia)
Paper: “Employing and empowering marginalized women: A randomized trial of microenterprise assistance”
February 6th, 2014
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Tavneet Suri (MIT Sloan School of Business) *Cancelled due to Weather* Paper: “There is No Free House: Ethnic Patronage and Property Rights in a Kenyan Slum”
February 13th, 2014
Old North 205 
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Ariel Ben Yishay (University of New South Wales)
Paper: “Childhood Shocks and Trust in Adulthood: Impacts of Early-Life Rainfall in Sub-Saharan Africa”
February 20th, 2014
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern)
Paper: “Why Are Indian Children Shorter than African Children?”
February 27th, 2014
Old North 205 
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago)
Paper: “Up from Poverty?  The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth”
March 6th, 2014
Old North 205 
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)
Paper: “The big sort:  College reputation and labor market outcomes”
March 20th, 2014
Old North 205 
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)
Paper: “Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India’s Child Labor Ban”

April 3rd, 2014
Old North 205 
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Annamaria Milazzo (World Bank))
Paper: “Why Are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Maternal Survival in India”
April 10th, 2014
Old North 205
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Dean Yang (Michigan)
Paper: TBA  
April 24th, 2014
Old North 205
4:15pm – 5:45pm

Kiki Pop-Eleches (Columbia)
Paper: TBA
May 1st, 2014
Old North 205
4:15pm – 5:45pm