Events and Seminars

Development Economics Seminar

Spring 2015

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State Capacity, Local Governance, and Economic Development in Vietnam
Melissa Dell (Harvard)
February 04, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Rick Hornbeck (Harvard)
February 11, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

The Runner-up Effect
Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton)
February 18, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-378

Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
Leo Bursztyn (UCLA)
February 25, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Chris Udry (Yale)
March 04, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

TBA
Jishnu Das (World Bank)
March 11, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection and Performance in Public Service Delivery
Nava Ashraf (Harvard)
April 01, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

Supervisory Skills and Firm Productivity: Evidence From Training Experiments in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Chris Woodruff (Warwick)
April 08, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

TBA
Paul Niehaus (UCSD)
April 15, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

TBA
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern)
April 22, 2015
2:30pm - 4:00pm
E51-376

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India - joint with IO and Development
Rohini Pande (Harvard)
April 27, 2015
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E62-650