Archive: Fall 2013 Seminar Series
The gui²de Seminar Series is a weekly seminar hosted jointly by the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Economics Department. It features guest speakers presenting cutting edge research in development economics.
gui²de Fall 2013 Seminar Series
Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School)
Paper: “Do-gooders and Doctors: Evidence on Selection and Performance of Health Workers”
September 5th, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Ray Guiteras (University of Maryland)
Paper: “Credit Constraints, Present Bias and Investment in Health: Evidence from Micropayments for Clean Water in Dhaka”
September 12th, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm-5:45pm
Adrienne Lucas (University of Delaware)
Paper: “Improving Early-Grade Literacy in East Africa: Experimental Evidence from Kenya and Uganda”
September 19, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Erica Field (Duke)
Paper: “Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh”
October 3, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford)
Paper: Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment
October 10, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School)
Paper: “The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension”
October 24, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Xavier Giné (World Bank)
Paper: “How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions?”
October 31, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Andy Foster (Brown)
Paper: “Spillovers, Coordination Failure, and the Consequences of Fragmentation in Rural India“
November 7, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Rob Jensen (University of Pennsylvania)
Paper: “Market Size, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India”
November 14th, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Dean Karlan (Yale)
Paper: “Loose Knots: Strong vs Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda”
November 21, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm
Karthik Muralidharan (UCSD)
Paper: “Payment Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India”
December 5, 2013
ICC 550
4:15pm – 5:45pm