Seminar Series Fall 2015

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

Debraj Ray

NYU – HDCA Conference

10 September 2015

How Individual Aspirations Shape Economic Behavior

Marcel Fafchamps

Stanford

17 September 2015

Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan

Co-authors: Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d’Adda, Simon Quinn, and Farah Said

Supreet Kaur

Columbia

24 September 2015

Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets

No seminar: IZA conference

1 October 2015

Francois Gerard

Columbia

8 October 2015

Hysteresis and the Social Cost of Corrective Policies: Evidence from A Temporary Energy Saving Program

Gautam Rao

Harvard

15 October 2015

Dan Bjorkegren

Brown

22 October 2015

The Adoption of Network Goods: The Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda

Ameet Morjaria

Northwestern

29 October 2015

Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda’s Coffee Mills

Ethan Ligon

UC Berkeley

5 November 2015

Asset Transfers and Household Neediness

David Atkin

Harvard

12 November 2015

Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

Jed Friedman

World Bank

19 November 2015

Local Spillovers from Cash Transfer Programs: Food Price Increases and Nutrition Impacts on Non-beneficiary Children

Lisa Cameron

Monash University

3 December 2015