Events and Seminars

Development Economics Seminar

Fall 2018

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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Andrew Foster (Brown University)
September 10th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Authoritarian Movement
David Yang (Harvard/MIT)
September 17th, 2018
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Social and Cognitive Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Selective High Schools in Peru
Roman Andres Zarate (MIT)
September 24th, 2018
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Settling With the Elite: Large Landowners in America's Westward Expansion
Cory Smith (MIT)
October 1st, 2018
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Is Political Competition Good for Development? The Effects of Close Elections in India.
Mahvish Shaukat (MIT)
October 15th, 2018
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

Political Alignment and Economic Outcomes Under Close Elections in India
Sourav Sarkar (MIT)
October 22nd, 2018
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
E51-395

The Aggregate And Distributional Effect of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence From Bogotá’s TransMilenio
Nick Tsivanidis (University of Chicago)
October 29th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply
Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley)
November 5th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Border Walls
Melanie Morten (Stanford University)
November 12th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Spinning the Web: the Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediaries and Technology Diffusion
Claudia Steinwender (MIT)
November 19th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia
Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)
November 26th, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Michael Best (Columbia University)
December 3rd, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Harvard Harvard Hall 104 - 1465-1483 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge