Events and Seminars

Development Economics Seminar

Fall 2019

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Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India
Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland)
September 9th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St, Cambridge

Pamela Jakiela
Gendered Language
September 16th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
210 Harvard Emerson Hall - 19 Quincy St, Cambridge

Women's Self-Efficacy and Women's Employment: Experimental Evidence from India
Madeline McKelway (MIT)
September 23rd, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Publication Bias under Aggregation Frictions: From Communication Model to Correction Method
Chishio Furukawa (MIT)
September 30th, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Land Concentration and Long-run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States
Cory Smith (MIT)
October 7th, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Monitoring the Vote or Voting to Monitor? Evidence from Two Large Scale Field Experiments in Colombia
Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama (MIT)
October 17th, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Monitoring the Vote or Voting to Monitor? Evidence from Two Large Scale Field Experiments in Colombia
Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama (MIT)
October 21st, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Juliana Londoño-Vélez (Berkeley)
November 4th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard, Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA

Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices
Natalie Bau (UCLA)
November 11th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard, Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA

Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Paraguay
Frederico Finan (Berkeley)
November 18th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St, Cambridge

Attending kindergarten improves cognitive but not socioemotional development in India
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern)
November 25th, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St, Cambridge

Direct and Indirect Effects of Access to Finance on SMEs
Jing Cai (University of Maryland)
December 2nd, 2019
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Emerson Hall 210 - 19 Quincy St, Cambridge

Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)
December 9th, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395