The Poverty & Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers in applied microeconomics from the fields of poverty, human development, agriculture, political economy, behavioral economics, private sector development, and a range of other fields to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.
Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule (ET time)
Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Dennis Eager (Oxford University) | Slack and Economic Development |
Wednesday February 25, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 4-001 | Lucia Corno (Cattolica University and LEAP) | Norm Replacement and Information. An Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting |
Wednesday March 5, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 4-001 | Radhika Jain (University College of London) | Private Hospital Behavior Under Government Insurance: Evidence from Reimbursement Changes in India |
Wednesday March 12, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 4 -001 | Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) | Uprootedness, Human Capital, and Skill Transferability |
Wednesday March 19, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 4 -001 | Anne Karing (University of Chicago) | Optimal Policy with Social Image Concerns: Experimental Evidence from Deworming |
Wednesday March 26, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 4-001 | Gautam Rao (UC Berkeley) | Policymaker Networks and the Diffusion of Policy Innovation: Causal Evidence from Brazil |
Wednesday | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Denni Tommasi (University of Bologna) | Quality upgrading in the street food market: Are better infrastructure and training sufficient? |
| Wednesday April 9, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Alessandra Fenizia (George Washington University) | The (In)effectiveness of Targeted Payroll Tax Reductions |
| Wednesday April 16, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Nishtha Sharma (New York University, Abu Dhabi) | The Economics of Begging |
Wednesday April 23, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin) | Liquidity, Business Development and Gender: Evidence from Credit Contracts |
Wednesday April 30, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Amory Lionel Gethin (World Bank) | Global Labor Supply |
Wednesday May 7, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Teevrat Garg (UC San Diego) | Impacts and Adoption of Air Purifiers in Firms: Evidence from Bangladesh |
Wednesday May 14, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 2-116 | Adrienne Lucas (University of Delaware) | Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality |
Wednesday May 21, 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | G 2-116 | Michael Gechter (MIT) | |
| Wednesday May 28, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00pm | G2-116 | Morgan Hardy (New York University Abu Dhabi) | Beyond Informality? Enterprise Visibility and Mobility |
| Wednesday June 18, 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G2-116 | Juanita Gonalez-Uribe (LSE) | Managerial Springboards: Employee Spillovers of Startup Accelerators |
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Last Updated: May 30, 2025