Archive: Fall 2014 Seminar Series
A weekly seminar featuring guest speakers presenting cutting edge
research in development economics.
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
4 September 2014
Guy Grossman (UPenn)
Information Technology and Political Engagement:
Mixed Experimental Evidence from Uganda
11 September 2014
Asim Khwaja (Harvard)
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of
Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
18 September 2014
Rohini Pande (Harvard)
The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Experimental Evidence
and Structural Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India
2 October 2014
Johannes Haushofer (Princeton)
Household Response to Income Changes: Evidence from
an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program in Kenya
9 October 2014
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