Seminar Series – Spring 2019
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
Horacio Larreguy Arbesú, Harvard University
February 21, 2019
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election
Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 28, 2019
Teacher Effectiveness in Africa: Longitudinal and Causal Estimates
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
March 14, 2019
Intergenerational Educational Mobility: New Methods and Evidence from India
Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago
March 21, 2019
Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Jeremy Magruder, University of California, Berkeley
March 28, 2019
Irrigation in Rwanda: Farmers’ responses to a massive expansion of the production possibility frontier
Lucie Gadenne, University of Warwick
April 11, 2019
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
April 25, 2019
Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 2, 2019
Changes in Social Network Structure In Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
Cancelled