The 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.
Fall 2023 Schedule of Seminars
For connection information, contact Rina Bonfield (abonfield@worldbank.org).
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday August 30, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Adam Osman (University of Illinois at Urbana Chapaign) | The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders |
| Wednesday September 6, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Reshmaan Hussam (Harvard Business School) | The Household at Work: Evidence from a Refugee Camp |
| Wednesday September 13, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Teresa Molina (University of Hawaii) | Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Export Manufacturing |
| Wednesday September 20, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Monica Lambon-Quayefio (University of Ghana) | Technology Options for Labour Market Efficiency: Emerging Evidence from Ghana |
| Wednesday September 27, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Lauren Bergquist (UC Berkeley) | Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets |
| Wednesday October 4, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota) | |
| Wednesday October 11, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guilherme Lichand (Stanford Graduate School of Education) | |
| Wednesday October 18, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Louis Preonas (University of Maryland) | |
| Wednesday October 25, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sarah Deschênes (Northwestern University) | |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Dean Karlan (Northwestern University) | |
| Wednesday November 8, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (University of Maryland) | |
| Wednesday November 15, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute) | |
| Wednesday November 29, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) | |
| Wednesday December 6, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University) |
Spring 2023 Schedule of Seminars
For connection information, contact Rina Bonfield (abonfield@worldbank.org).
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 15, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Samuel Bazzi (UCSD) | Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration |
| Wednesday February 22, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Eoin McGuirk (Tufts) | Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa |
| Wednesday March 1, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Saravana Ravindran (National University of Singapore) | Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica |
| Wednesday March 8, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (UPenn, UAB) | Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village |
| Wednesday March 15, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guy Grossman (UPenn) | When Refugee Presence Increases Incumbent Support through International Development |
| Tuesday March 21, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 2-520 | Julian Jamison (University of Exeter) | Empirical Facts about Normative Values and Evaluating the Future Note: This seminar is co-sponsored by eMBed and the Poverty & Equity Global Practice |
| Wednesday March 22, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diana Moreira (UC Davis) | Who Benefits from Meritocracy? |
| Wednesday March 29, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jonas Hjort (University Colleage London) | Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies |
| Wednesday April 5, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Claudio Ferraz (U British Columbia) | When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians |
| Wednesday April 12, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Namrata Kala (MIT) | Environmental Permits, Regulatory Capacity, and Firm Outcomes |
| Wednesday April 19, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile) | Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá |
| Wednesday April 26, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U) | How Do Voters Respond to Welfare vis-a-vis Public Good Programs? An Empirical Test of Political Clientelism |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Fred Finan (UC Berkeley) | Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles |
| Wednesday May 10, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Simon Quinn (University of Oxford) | Matching, Management and the Search for Work: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design |
| Wednesday May 17, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Garance Genicot (Georgetown U) | Measuring Upward Mobility |
| Wednesday May 24, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ethan Ligon (UC Berkeley) | Risk Sharing Tests and Covariate Shocks |
| Wednesday May 31, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Paulina Oliva (USC) | Targeting Subsidies through Price Menus: Contract Design and Evidence from Clean Fuels |
| Wednesday June 7, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Matias Busso (IDB) | Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates |
| CANCELLED Wednesday June 14, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Diana Contreras Suarez (University of Melbourne) | Swaying Gender Norms Around Women’s Work in Indonesia: Evidence from an Online Intervention |
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Last Updated: Sep 21, 2023