To access the current lineup of microeconomics seminars, please visit: https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/microseminar
Fall 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Austin Wright (Chicago Harris) | Rebel Capacity and Combat Tactics |
| Sep 11 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Ben Olken (MIT) | Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia |
| Sep 18 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Jonathan Colmer (UVA) | The Economics of Marine Conservation |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Karen Macours (PSE) | Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years |
| Oct 2 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Rosella Calvi (Rice) | Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty |
| Oct 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) | Interaction, Stereotypes and Performance: Evidence from South Africa |
| Oct 16 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 8-090 | Rodrigo Soares (Columbia SIPA) | Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations |
| Oct 23 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern Kellogg) | Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services |
| Oct 30 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Natalie Bau (UCLA) | Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India |
| Nov 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Jie Bai (HKS) | Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover and Industrial Quality Upgrading |
| Nov 13 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Sylvie Lambert (PSE) | Adoption of improved seeds, land allocation and welfare: Evidence from DRC |
| Dec 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) | Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents: Habit Formation and Optimal Water Pricing in Vietnam |
| Dec 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | John Firth (University of Notre Dame) |
I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production |
Spring 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Frank Schilbach (MIT) | Does Poverty Lower Productivity? |
| March 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto) | The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families |
| March 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Xavier Gine (World Bank) | Targeting Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania |
| March 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alessandra Voena (Chicago) | Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments |
| March 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jeremy Magruder (Berkeley) | Irrigation in Rwanda: Farmers' responses to a massive change in the production possibility frontier |
| April 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Johannes Haushofer (Princeton) | General Equilibrium Welfare Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya |
| April 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 8-090 | Lucie Gadenne (Warwick) | Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India |
| April 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Maureen Cropper (UMD) | Why Do Discrete Choice Approaches to Valuing Climate Amenities Yield Different Results Than Hedonic Models? |
| April 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Chicago) | Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences |
| May 1 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Esther Duflo (MIT) | Leveraging Data Science, Experiments, and Informal Social Networks to Improve Immunization in India |
| May 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Siwan Anderson (UBC) | Marriage, Commitment and Social Norms: Theory and Evidence from Egypt |
| May 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Joana Naritomi (LSE) | Job Displacement Insurance and (The Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing |
| May 22 | No seminar |
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| May 29 | No seminar | |||
| June 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Andrew Foster (Brown) | Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size |
| June 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mar Reguant (Northwestern) | Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets |
| June 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Cormac O'Dea (Yale) | Insurance, Efficiency and the Design of Public Pensions |
| June 26 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tristan Reed (World Bank) | Interlinked Transactions and Competition: Experimental Evidence from Cocoa Markets |
Fall 2018 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Julien Labonne (University of Oxford) | Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Felipe Barrera-Osorio (HGSE) | Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan |
| Sep 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Attila Ambrus (Duke) | Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Giacomo de Giorgi (Geneva) | From Farmers to Entrepreneurs |
| Oct 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gabriel Kreindler (Chicago/ Harvard) | The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
| Oct 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rachael Meager (LSE) | Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature |
| Oct 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gerard Padro-i-Miguel (Yale) | Doing Business in China: The Interplay between Parental and Governmental Influence |
| Oct 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Paul Dower (Wisconsin) | Land rights, rental markets, and the post-socialist cityscape |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po) | Elections as Incentives: Project Completion and Visibility in African Politics |
| Nov 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mark Agerton (UC Davis) | Learning Where to Drill: Drilling Decisions and Geological Quality in the Haynesville Shale |
| Nov 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Ted Miguel (Berkeley) | Skill versus Voice in Local Development |
| Nov 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jessica Goldberg (UMD) | Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Under-detection: A Field Experiment in India |
| Dec 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of World Bank headquarters. |
| Dec 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Sean Higgins (Berkeley) | Financial Technology Adoption |
2018 Spring Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| June 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson | The Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families |
| June 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Oyebola Okunogbe | Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing |
| June 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Fernanda Brollo | The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil |
| June 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alex Anas | The optimal mix of pricing and infrastructure expansions to alleviate traffic congestion and in-bus crowding in Grand Casablanca |
| May 30 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Aislinn Bohren | The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence |
| May 23 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hoyt Bleakley | A Nudge to School: Triangulating the Gains |
| May 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby | Governing the Commons? Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin |
| May 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mushfiq Mobarak | Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh |
| May 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Kristian Behrens | Are clusters resilient? Evidence from Canadian textile industries |
| April 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Owen Ozier/ Pam Jakiela | Gendered Language |
| April 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alwyn Young | Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application |
| April 11 |
12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Verhoogen | Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia |
| April 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Clement Imbert | Costs and Benefits of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from India |
| March 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gautam Rao | The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans |
| March 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Supreet Kaur | The Limits of Neighborly Exchange |
| March 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anna Alberini | Response to Extreme Energy Price Changes: Evidence from Ukraine |
| Feb 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Edmonds | The Transmission of Gender Norms |
2017 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Dec 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Daniel Mahler | The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees |
| Dec 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Asim Khwaja (HKS) | Crossing Boundaries: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints for Women |
| Nov 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Juliano Assuncao (PUC-Rio, Brazil) | Electrification, Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil |
| Nov 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jishnu Das (World Bank) | Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools |
| Nov 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Paul Niehaus (UCSD) | General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India | |
| Nov 1 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anthony Keats (Wesleyan) | What Can We Learn from Babies Born During Health-Worker Strikes? |
| Oct 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Robyn Meeks (Duke) | Grid versus Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development |
| Oct 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda |
| Oct 11 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | I 4-020 | Henrik Kleven (LSE Princeton) | Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark |
| Oct 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Emily Breza (Harvard) | Information Delivery Under Endogenous Communication: Evidence from the Indian Demonetization |
| Sep 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Shing-Yi Wang (Wharton) | Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China |
| Sep 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (Maryland) | Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Francisco Ferreira | Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequalityin Brazil, 1995-2012 |
| Sept 6 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Antonio Bento, USC, NBER; Kevin Roth, UC-Irvine; Andrew Waxman, Arizona State University | Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency |
| Jun 28 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby, World Bank | Decentralizing Rent-seeking: Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin |
| Jun 22 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do, World Bank | On the Speculative Poaching of African Elephants |
| Jun 14 |
12:30 – 2:00 pm |
MC 3-570 | Vivian Hoffmann, International Food Policy Research Institute | Relief from Usury: Impact of a Self-Help Group Lending Program in Rural India |
| Jun 7 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Manoj Mohanan, Duke University | Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills |
| May 31 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Sam Asher,World Bank | Dirty Politics: Mining Booms and Politician Behavior in India |
| May 24 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Stephen Smith, George Washington University | How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda |
| May 17 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Duncan Thomas, Duke University | Child health after a natural disaster |
| May 3 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Christopher Timmins, Duke University | Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas |
| Apr 26 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 |
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University | Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Agents or Local Governments? |
| Apr 12 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eli Fenichel, Yale University | Ecosystem Based Management and the Wealth of Ecosystems |
| Apr 5 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tarek Ghani, Washington University of St. Louis | Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan |
| Mar 29 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC3-570 | Amy Ando, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Reducing climate-related uncertainty in outcomes of investments: When does spatial conservation portfolio diversification work best? |
| Mar 22 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Andrew Newman, Boston University | Loopholes and the Evolution of Contract Form |
| Mar 15 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Gaurav Khanna (CGD & UCSD) | Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India |
| Mar 8 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Jessica Goldberg, University of Maryland | Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Evidence from Malawi |
MC 8-100
| MC 3-570 |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |