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 2026 Seminar Schedule (ET time) 

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Date

Time

Venue

Speaker

Paper

Wednesday
February 25, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Natalie Danielle Bau (UCLA)

 

Wednesday March 4, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Kate Viborny (Wolrd Bank)

 

Wednesday March 11, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Sebastian Otero (Columbia University)

 

Wednesday March 18, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)  

Wednesday March 25, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Saloni Gupta (Brown University)

 

Wednesday
April 1, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Cori B. Smith (University of Maryland)

 

Wednesday
April 8, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Grant Miller (Standford University)

 

Wednesday
April 15, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Nava Ashraf (London School of Economics)  

Wednesday
April 22, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Arielle Gina Bernhardt (NYU)  

Wednesday
April 29, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Emanuele Colonnelli (Chicago University)  

Wednesday
May 6, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University)  

Wednesday
May 13, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Seema Jayachandran (Princeton University)  

Wednesday
May 20, 2026

12:30 - 2:00 pm

G 2-116

Giorgia Barboni (Warwick)  

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Last Updated: February 9, 2026

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