Microeconomics Seminar Series (Archive)

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 and public service delivery, agriculture and rural development, 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.

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Development Research Group Winter 2025 Seminar Series

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Wednesday January 8, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	John Becko (MIT/Princeton post-doc)	Strategic (Dis)integration
Monday January 13, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Maria Constanza Abuin (Harvard University)	Power Decarbonization in a Global Energy Market: The Climate Effect of U.S. LNG Exports
Tuesday January 14, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Sungwan Hong (Pennsylvania State University)	Green Industrial Policies and Energy Transition in the Globalized Economy
Wednesday January 15, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4 -001	Florian Munch (London School of Economics)	Stronger Together? Female Export Consortia
Thursday January 16, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4 -001	Carolyn Pelnik (Tufts University)	Moving to Profitability? Alleviating Constraints on Microentrepreneur Location
Tuesday January 21, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Deivy Houeix (MIT)	Asymmetric Information and Digital Technology Adoption: Evidence from Senegal*
Wednesday January 22, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Jess Rudder (University of Chicago)	Learning from Weather Forecasts and Short-Run Adaptation: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment
Thursday January 23, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Hiroshi Toma (University of Michigan)	The Financial Propagation Mechanism of Commodity Booms
Monday January 27, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Lucia Casal (Cornell University)	Lock-In and Productive Innovations: Implications for Firm-to-Firm Innovation Pass-Through
Wednesday January 29, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Fernando Arce Munoz (University of Minnesota)
Thursday January 30, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Filip Milosavljević (Washington University)	Mergers and Acquisitions: Market Power or Efficiency?
Monday February 3, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Abdoulaye Cisse (University of California Berkeley)	The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal
Tuesday February 4, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Oluchi Mbonu (Harvard University)	Market Segmentation and Coordination Costs: Evidence from Johannesburg’s Minibus Networks
Wednesday February 5, 2025	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	G 4-001	Charlotte De Canniere (KU Leuven)	Pump it? Market Power and the Energy Transition in the Global Oil Market

Fall 2024 Schedule of Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Wednesday September 11, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 4-301	Sule Alan (Cornell University)	Managing Adolescent Behavior in the Classroom to Improve Learning
Wednesday September 18, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-370	Muhammad Meki (University of Oxford)	Mutuality in Finance: Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment
Wednesday October 2, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Rachael Meager (University of New South Wales)	Implementation Matters: Generalizing Treatments Effects in Education
Wednesday October 9, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Travis Baseler (University of Rochester)	Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes Toward Refugees
Wednesday October 16, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)	Court Capture, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China
Wednesday October 23, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Sanghmitra Gautam (Washington University in St Louis)	The Importance of Education Investments in the Indian Marriage Market
Wednesday October 30, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Jorge Tamayo (HBS)	Rapport in Organizations: Evidence from Fast Food
Wednesday November 6, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Richard Akresh (University of Illinois)	Medium-term Impacts of Integrated Social Safety Nets: Cash Transfers, Information Meetings, and Home Visits for Child Development
Wednesday November 13, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Coue Dobbin (Georgetown University)	Balancing Access and Quality in a Changing Market Structure: The Market Effects of Online College Education
Wednesday November 20, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	Jishnu Das (Gerogetown University)	The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries
Wednesday December 4, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	G2-116	M R Sharan (University of Maryland)	The Added Value of Local Politicians: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

Spring 2024 Schedule of Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Wednesday February 14, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard University)	Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Wednesday February 21, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University)	Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia
Wednesday February 28, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Mazhar Waseem (University of Manchester)	From Womb to Workforce: Exploring Early Origins of Earnings Inequality Using Tax Data
Wednesday March 6, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Pam Jakiela (Williams College)	Evaluating the Effects of an Early Literacy Intervention
Wednesday March 13, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)	Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya
Wednesday March 20, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Imran Rasul (University College London)
Wednesday March 27, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Nishith Prakash (Northeastern University)
Wednesday April 3, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Francis Annan (UC Berkeley)
Wednesday April 10, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Gabriel Tourek (University of Pittsburgh)
Wednesday April 17, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Onur Altindag (Bentley University)
Wednesday April 24, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California)
Wednesday May 1, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Lauren Bergquist (Yale University)
Wednesday May 8, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Dean Karlan (Northwestern University)
Wednesday May 15, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-850	Nicolás de Roux (Universidad de los Andes)
Wednesday May 22, 2024	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	TBD

Development Research Group Winter 2024 Seminar Series

This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Monday January 8, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Florian Grosset (Columbia University)	Complementarities in Labor Supply
Tuesday January 9, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Lisa Ho (MIT)	Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal
Wednesday January 10, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Louise Paul-Delvaux (Harvard University)	Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco
Thursday January 11, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Emilia Brito (Brown University)	The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap
Tuesday January 17, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Yulu Tang (Harvard University)	To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks Note: Due to inclement weather, this seminar was moved from January 16
Thursday January 18, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Felipe Camelo (New York University)	Capital Allocation and Firm Dynamics in Small Open Economies
Monday January 22, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Emir Murathanoglu (Michigan University)	When the Weather Turns: Coping With Shocks Through International Migration in the Presence of Search Frictions
Tuesday January 23, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Layane Alhorr (Harvard KSG)	Virtual Windows Through Glass Walls? Digitization for Mobility-Constrained Female Entrepreneurs.
Wednesday January 24, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Marie-Louise Decamps (Northwestern University)	Shifting Landscapes: The Impact of Agricultural Innovation on Deforestation
Thursday January 25, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Zhenxuan Wang (Duke University)	Bridge or Barrier to Net Zero? Gas Infrastructure Expansion and the Cost of Electrification
Monday January 29, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Fabrizio Leone (ECARES)	Global Robots
Tuesday January 30, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Amory Gethin (PSE)	Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2022
Wednesday January 31, 2024	12:30 - 2:00pm ET	MC 7-100	Mahounan Yedomiffi (UIUC)	Does Parental Involvement Improve Student Learning? The Role of Monitoring

Fall 2023 Schedule of Seminars

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	Lucas Zavala (DIME, World Bank)	Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade
Wednesday October 4, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota)	Reading for Life: Lasting Impacts of a Literacy Intervention in Uganda
Wednesday October 11, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Guilherme Lichand (Stanford Graduate School of Education)	Parent-Bias
Wednesday October 18, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Louis Preonas (University of Maryland)	Blackouts: The Role of India’s Wholesale Electricity Market
Wednesday October 25, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Sarah Deschênes (Northwestern University)	Expanding Access to Schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes
Wednesday November 1, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Tarek Ghani (Washington University)	Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?
Wednesday November 8, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Jing Cai (University of Maryland)	Effect of Referring Business Partners on Firm Networks and Performance
Wednesday November 15, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute)	Social Networks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform
Wednesday November 29, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University)	Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation on Social Pressure and Relative Ranks
Wednesday December 6, 2023	12:30 - 1:45pm ET	MC 3-570	Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)	The Effects of a STEM High School Curriculum

Spring 2023 Schedule of Seminars

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

Development Research Group Winter 2023 Seminar Series

This short and intense spring series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Monday January 9, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Diana Sverdlin Lisker	Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico
Tuesday January 10, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Suzanna Khalifa	Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price
Wednesday January 11, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Garima Sharma	Monopsony and Gender
Thursday January 12, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Ruozi Song	Pollution Taxes as a Second-Best: Accounting for Multidimensional Firm Heterogeneity in Environmental Regulations
Tuesday January 17, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Heitor Sandes Pellegrina	Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West
Wednesday January 18, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Juanma Castro-Vincenz	Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry
Thursday January 19, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Katherine Stapleton	AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India
Monday January 23, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Dario Tortarolo	Can VAT Cuts on Foodstuffs Dampen the Effects of Inflation? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Argentina
Tuesday January 24, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Jonah Rexer	The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector
Wednesday January 25, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Anna Vitali	Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda
Thursday January 26, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Livia Alfonsi	Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors
Monday January 30, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Binta Zahra Diop	Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation
Tuesday January 31, 2023	12:30 - 2:00 ET	MC 3-570	Shafaat Yar Khan	Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty

Fall 2022 Schedule of Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Wednesday September 7, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Tom Vogl (UCSD)	Fertility and the Education of Parents and Children in Africa
Wednesday September 14, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Alessandra Voena (Stanford)	Cultural Institutions and Structural Change: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate
Wednesday September 21, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	David McKenzie (World Bank)	Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia?
Wednesday September 28, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Jishnu Das (Georgetown)	Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Wednesday October 5, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 4-301	Mauricio Romero (ITAM)	COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India
Wednesday October 12, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-850	Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)	Seasonal Poverty, Remittance Constraints, and Loans
CANCELED Wednesday October 19, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	Note that this seminar has been canceled.	Frank Schilbach (MIT)
Wednesday October 26, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago)	The Effectiveness of Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Motivating Healthy Habits
Wednesday November 2, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Michela Carlana (Harvard University)	Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes
Wednesday November 9, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Christina Brown (University of Chicago)	Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity
Wednesday November 16, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Marie Christelle Mabeu (Stanford University)	Colonial Origins of Fertility Behaviors: Evidence on the Role of Forced Labor Migration in Burkina Faso
Wednesday November 30, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Arthur Blouin (University of Toronto)	Enforce or Entrust? Experimental Evidence on Combating Corruption
Wednesday December 7, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 4-301	Megan Lang (World Bank)	The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Building Skills in Uganda
Wednesday December 14, 2022	12:30 - 1:45 ET	MC 3-570	Jeanne Lafortune (PUC Chile)	Smooth(er) Landing? The Dynamic Role of Networks in the Location and Occupational Choice of Immigrants

Spring 2022 Schedule of Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
February 17, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Oeindrila Dube (U of Chicago)	Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
February 24, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Clare Balboni (MIT)	The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics
March 3, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern U)	Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
March 17, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Susan Athey (Stanford)	Shared Decision-Making about Contraception: An Adaptive Experiment
March 24, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Muhammad Yasir Khan (U of Pittsburgh)	Mission motivation and public sector performance: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
March 31, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics)	Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions
April 7, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley)	The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply
April 21, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Rohini Pande (Yale)	Updating the State: Information Acquisition Costs and Public Benefit Delivery
April 28, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Siwan Anderson (U British Columbia)	Harm and Harmony
May 5, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Martine Visser (U Cape Town)	Image Motivation for Pro-social Behavior: Evidence from South Africa
May 12, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm	Online	Benoit Decerf (World Bank)	The Poverty-adjusted Life Expectancy Index: A consistent aggregation of the quantity and the quality of life
May 26, 2022	9:45 - 11:00am	Online	Junjie Zhang (Duke Kunshan)	Carbon Leakage within Firm Ownership Networks

Development Research Group Winter 2022 Seminar Series

This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.

Date	Time	Speaker	Paper
January 10, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Jacobus Cilliers (Georgetown University)	Can Virtual Replace In-person Coaching? Experimental Evidence on Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning
January 11, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Jean-François Gauthier (Boston College)	Effect of Minimum Wages on Automation and Offshoring Decisions of Firms: Evidence from India
January 12, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Caue Dobbin (Stanford University)	The Equilibrium Effects of Subsidized Student Loans
January 13, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Niharika Singh (Columbia University)	Hiring Frictions in Urban Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from India
January 14, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Carolina Lopez (Brown University)	Tripping at the Finish Line: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Misperceptions on Secondary School Completion
January 18, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Maria Jose Carreras Valle (University of Minnesota)	Increasing Inventories: The Role of Delivery Times
January 19, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University)	Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change?
January 20, 2022	11:00am - 12:15pm EST	Zeina Hasna (University of Cambridge)	The Grass Is Actually Greener on the Other Side: Evidence on Green Multipliers from the United States
January 21, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Shoumitro Chatterjee (Pennsylvania State University)	Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India
January 24, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Kim Fe Cramer (Columbia Business School)	Bank Presence and Health
January 25, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern University)	Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
January 26, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Carlos Burga (Princeton University)	Bank Competition, Capital Misallocation, and Industry Concentration: Evidence from Peru
January 27, 2022	11:00am - 12:15pm EST	Federica Zeni (Imperial College London)	The Optimal Design of Green Securities
January 28, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Manuel García-Santana (Princeton University)	Government Procurement and Access to Credit: Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications
January 31, 2022	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Mayara Felix (MIT)	Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages

Development Research Group Fall 2021 Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Thursday September 2, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Natalia Rigol (Harvard Business School)	Strategic Disclosure of Loan Officers and Graduation From Microfinance: Evidence from Chile
Thursday September 9, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Alex Eble (Columbia University)	When bootstraps aren’t enough: Aspirations, learning, and educational supply in a low-income context
Thursday September 23, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University)	‘We Are Not Guinea Pigs’: The Effects of Negative News on Vaccine Compliance
Thursday September 30, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick)	Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence
Thursday October 7, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Pia Raffler (Harvard)	Does Political Oversight of the Bureaucracy Increase Accountability? Field Experimental Evidence from an Electoral Autocracy
Thursday October 14, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes)	Political Incentives and Corruption: Evidence from Ghost Students
Thursday October 28, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Luis Martinez (Chicago Harris)	Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia
Thursday November 4, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Sandra Rozo (World Bank)	Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in Migrant’s Life
Thursday November 11, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Online	Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School)	Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
Thursday December 2, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Online	Matt Lowe (UBC)	Religious Revival and Social Order
Thursday December 16, 2021	12:30 – 1:45 pm EST	Online	Anja Sautmann (World Bank)	Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls to Encourage Home Reading with Children in Kenya

Development Research Group Spring 2021 Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Thursday February 25, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Online	Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton)	Gangs, labor mobility and development
Thursday March 4, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Online	Zoe Cullen (Harvard)	The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
Thursday March 11, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EST	Online	Raymond Fisman (Boston U)	Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement:Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
Thursday March 18, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Treb Allen (Dartmouth)	Trucks
Thursday April 8, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Oriana Bandiera (LSE)	The Long Shadow of Viral Pandemics
Thursday April 22, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Sara Lowes (Harvard)	Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
Thursday May 6, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Manisha Shah (UCLA)	Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence
Thursday May 13, 2021	12:30 - 1:45pm EDT	Online	Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley)	Racial inequality, minimum wages, and the informal sector
Thursday May 27, 2021	3:30 - 4:45 pm EDT	Online	Leslie Martin (U Melbourne)	Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity

Development Research Group Winter 2020/21 Seminar Series

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
December 16, 2020	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Sandra Rozo (USC Marshall School of Business)	Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees
December 17, 2020	1:30 - 2:45pm EST	Video	Gaurav Khanna (UC San Diego)	Why Do the Youth Join Gangs? Employment and Crime in Medellin (Links: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 \| Paper 3)
January 7, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST		Vesall Nourani (MIT)	Multi-object Social Learning and Technology Adoption in Ghana: Learning from Friends and Reacting to Acquaintances
January 11, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Gabriel Tourek (MIT)	Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in The D.R. CONGO
January 12, 2021	10:30 - 11:45am EST	Video	Elisa Macchi (Zurich)	Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries
January 13, 2021	1:30 - 2:45pm EST	Video	Stephanie Owen (University of Michigan)	College Field Specialization and Beliefs about Relative Performance: An Experimental Intervention to Understand Gender Gaps in STEM
January 14, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Sergio Villalvazo (UPenn)	Inequality and Asset Prices during Sudden Stops
January 19, 2021	10:30 - 11:45am EST	Video	Inês Xavier (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)	Wealth Inequality in the US: The Role of Heterogeneous Returns
January 20, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Filipe Correia (Illinois)	Is Corporate Credit Risk Propagated to Employees?
January 21, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Gabriel Englander (Berkeley)	Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery
January 25, 2021	11:00 - 12:15pm EST	Video	Patricia Sun (Harvard)	Lifting Growth Barriers for New Firms: Evidence from an Entrepreneurship Training Experiment with Two Million Online Businesses
January 27, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Christoph Albert (CEMFI)	Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
January 28, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Matias Moretti (NYU)	The Asymmetric Pass-Through of Sovereign Risk
February 1, 2021	10:30 - 11:45am EST	Video	Vu Chau (Harvard)	International Portfolio Investments with Trade Networks
February 2, 2021	10:30 - 11:45am EST	Video	Allan Hsiao (MIT)	Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil
February 3, 2021	10:30 - 11:45am EST	Video	Joana Duran-Franch (Toulouse)	Oh, Man! What Happened to Women? The Blurring of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation
February 4, 2021	1:00 - 2:15pm EST	Video	Megan Lang (Berkeley)	Consuming Perishable Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs and Liquidity Constraints

Development Research Group Fall 2020 Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Thursday September 10	12:30 - 1:45	Online	Ruixue Jia (UCSD)	Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Academic Talent and Firm Creation in China
Thursday September 24	12:30 - 2 pm	Online	Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)	How to Run an Adaptive Field Experiment Slides: How to run an adaptive field experiment Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice (joint with Anja Sautmann) Forthcoming, Econometrica, 2020 Manuscript: adaptiveexperimentspolicy.pdf Supplementary Appendix: adaptiveexperimentspolicy_supplement.pdf Interactive Dashboard for your own experiment: exploration_sampling_dashboard An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan (joint with Stefano Caria, Grant Gordon, Soha Osman, Simon Quinn and Alex Teytelboym) Working paper, 2020 Manuscript: RefugeesWork.pdf
Thursday October 1	12:30 - 2 pm	Webex	Shanjun Li (Cornell Dyson)	Transportation Policies, Urban Structure, and Equilibrium Sorting
Thursday October 8	12:30 - 2 pm	Online	David Yang (Harvard)	Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China
Thursday October 15	12:30 - 2 pm	Online	Gaurav Khanna (UCSD)	The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
Thursday October 29	12:30 - 2 pm	Online	Gilles Duranton (Wharton)	Urban Growth and Its Aggregate Implications
Thursday November 5	12:30 - 1:45 pm	Online	Kate Baldwin (Yale)	When Do Foreign Aid Projects Inflate Support for Incumbents? Voter Information and Political Oversight in Uganda
Thursday November 12	12:30 - 1:45 pm	Online	Manuela Angelucci (UT Austin)	Mental Health Care, Depression, and Economic Behavior: Evidence from India
Thursday December 3	12:30 - 1:45 pm	Online	Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)	The Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Branchless Banking in Indonesia
Thursday, December 10, 2020	12:30 – 1:45 pm	Online	Christopher Neilson (Princeton)	Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru

Spring 2020 Schedule of Seminars

Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Paper
Wednesday Feb 26	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Suresh Naidu (Columbia)	Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain
Wednesday Mar 4	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton)	Local Politicians and the Deforestation of the Amazon
Wednesday Mar 11	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Gilles Duranton (Wharton) CANCELLED	Mobility and congestion in urban India
Wednesday Mar 25	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Fred Finan (Berkeley) CANCELLED
Wednesday Apr 1	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Alvaro Pedraza Dev. Research Group, WB	Selective Communication, Stock Market Entry, and Performance
Wednesday Apr 8	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Arik Levinson (Georgetown) CANCELLED
Wednesday Apr 15	12:30 - 2 pm	G 4-001/G 7-140	Oeindrila Dube (Chicago Harris) CANCELLED
Wednesday Apr 22	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Zoe Cullen (Harvard Business School) CANCELLED
Wednesday Apr 29	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	CANCELLED
Wednesday May 6	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse) CANCELLED
Wednesday May 13	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Anne Karing (Princeton) CANCELLED
Wednesday May 20	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Manisha Shah (UCLA) CANCELLED
Wednesday May 27	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Sara Heller (Michigan) CANCELLED
Wednesday Jun 3	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Basit Zafar (Arizona State) CANCELLED
Wednesday Oct 28	12:30 - 2 pm	MC 3-570	Manuela Angelucci (UT)

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
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

Gaurav Khanna, CGD & UCSD

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