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).
| 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 | 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