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Microeconomics Seminar Series

February 15-May 24, 2023
Washington, DC
The World Bank

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.

 

Spring 2023 Schedule of Seminars

For connection information, contact Rina Bonfield (abonfield@worldbank.org).

DateTimeVenueSpeakerPaper
Wednesday
February 15, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 3-570Samuel Bazzi (UCSD)Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
Wednesday
February 22, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 3-570Eoin McGuirk (Tufts)Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa
Wednesday
March 1, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 3-570Saravana 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 ETMC 3-570Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (UPenn, UAB)Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village
Wednesday
March 15, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 3-570Guy Grossman (UPenn)When Refugee Presence Increases Incumbent Support through International Development
Tuesday
March 21, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 2-520Julian 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 ETMC 3-570Diana Moreira (UC Davis)Who Benefits from Meritocracy?
Wednesday
March 29, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ETMC 3-570Jonas Hjort (University Colleage London)Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies
Wednesday
April 5, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Claudio Ferraz (U British Columbia) 
Wednesday
April 12, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Namrata Kala (MIT) 
Wednesday
April 19, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile) 
Wednesday
April 26, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U) 
Wednesday
May 3, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Fred Finan (UC Berkeley) 
Wednesday
May 10, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Simon Quinn (University of Oxford) 
Wednesday
May 17, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Garance Genicot (Georgetown U)Measuring Upward Mobility
Wednesday
May 24, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Ethan Ligon (UC Berkeley) 
Wednesday
May 31, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Paulina Oliva (USC) 
Wednesday
June 7, 2023
12:30 - 1:45pm ET Matias Busso (IDB)Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

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Last Updated: Mar 24, 2023