Seminar Series – Spring 2020

A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge research in development economics.


Suresh Naidu, Columbia University

February 27, 2020

Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization
Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers

Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University

March 5, 2020

“Local Politicians and the Deforestation of the Amazon”

Manuela Angelucci, The University of Texas at Austin

March 19, 2020

Fred Finan, University of California, Berkeley

March 26, 2020

Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development

April 2, 2020

Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago

April 16, 2020

Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University

April 23, 2020


Please note: All seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15-4:45pm in ICC 550