Seminar Series Fall 2013

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

Nava Ashraf

Harvard Business School

September 5th, 2013

Do-gooders and Doctors: Evidence on Selection and Performance of Health Workers

Ray Guiteras

University of Maryland

September 12th, 2013

Credit Constraints, Present Bias and Investment in Health: Evidence from Micropayments for Clean Water in Dhaka

Adrienne Lucas

University of Delaware

September 19, 2013

Improving Early-Grade Literacy in East Africa: Experimental Evidence from Kenya and Uganda

Erica Field

Duke

October 3, 2013

Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh

Pascaline Dupas

Stanford

October 10, 2013

Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment

Shawn Cole

Harvard Business School

October 24, 2013

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Xavier Giné

World Bank

October 31, 2013

How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions?

Andy Foster

Brown

November 7, 2013

Spillovers, Coordination Failure, and the Consequences of Fragmentation in Rural India

Rob Jensen Bau

University of Pennsylvania

November 14th, 2013

Market Size, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Dean Karlan

Yale

November 21, 2013

Loose Knots: Strong vs Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Karthik Muralidharan

UCSD

December 5, 2013