Seminar Series Fall 2014

Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale

4 September 2014

Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Guy Grossman

UPenn

11 September 2014

Information Technology and Political Engagement:
Mixed Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Asim Khwaja

Harvard

18 September 2014

Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of
Unconditional Grants to Private Schools

Rohini Pande

Harvard

2 October 2014

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Experimental Evidence
and Structural Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

Johannes Haushofer

Princeton

9 October 2014

Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from
an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya

Kaushik Basu

World Bank

23 October 2014

Randomisation, Causality and the Role of Reasoned Intuition

Monica Singhal

Harvard

30 October 2014

Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement

Franco Peracchi

Georgetown

6 November 2014

Growing up in wartime: Evidence from the era of two world wars

Craig McIntosh

UCSD

13 November 2014

Infrastructure Upgrading and Budgeting Spillovers: 
Mexico’s Habitat Experiment

Leonard Wantchekon

Princeton

20 November 2014

Policy Deliberation and Voting Behavior:
A Campaign Experiment in the Philippines

Lena Edlund

Columbia

4 December 2014

The Importance of Individual Consent in Marriage 
for Women’s Status and Economic Development