Seminar Series – Spring 2015
A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge
research in development economics.
Lori Beaman (Northwestern)
Self‐Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
5 February 2015
Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth)
The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human
Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
12 February 2015
Joana Naritomi (LSE)
19 February 2015
Rema Hanna (Harvard)
Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations
of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Postponed
Francois Gerard (Columbia)
Hysteresis and the Social Cost of Corrective Policies:
Evidence from a Temporary Energy Saving Program
Postponed
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
Work Pays: Different Benefits of a
Workfare Program in Colombia