Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee summary of the year

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee stayed at PSE from September 2017 as invited professors for one academic year.

Their conferences have been organized as part of the international “Blaise Pascal” Research Chair financed by the Ile-de-France Region, managed by the Foundation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and with the support of the AXA Research Fund.

The key moments

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee first presented their work through two PSE seminars:

• On October 3, 2017 Abhijit Banerjee participated to the seminar “How important are matching frictions in the labor market? Experimental & non-experimental evidence from India” with Gaurav Chiplunkar.
• On October 4, 2017 the both economists participated to the seminar “Using gossips to spread information : theory and evidence from a randomized controlled trial” with Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Matthew O. Jackson.

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Then they conducted courses for PSE students during the year.
Here are the different replays of the courses given by the two researchers from the MIT.

• PSE credit lecture 1 - March 5^th, 2018
• PSE credit lecture 2: Bank as intermediairies - March 7^th, 2018
• PSE Credit Lecture 3 Part. 1: Microfinance - March 9, 2018
• PSE Credit Lecture 3 Part. 2: Microfinance - March 19, 2018
• PSE Minicourse Firms and contracts Lecture 2 - March 21, 2018
• PSE Minicourse - Should and Can the government regulate firms? - March 23, 2018
• Macro Development Economics part.1 - April 3, 2018
• Macro Development Economics part.2 - April 4, 2018
• Macro Development Economics part.3 - April 6, 2018
  
  

  PSE credit lecture 1 - March 5^th, 2018

PSE credit lecture 2: Bank as intermediairies - March 7^th, 2018

PSE Credit Lecture 3 Part. 1: Microfinance - March 9, 2018

PSE Credit Lecture 3 Part. 2: Microfinance - March 19, 2018

PSE Minicourse Firms and contracts Lecture 2 - March 21, 2018

PSE Minicourse - Should and Can the government regulate firms? - March 23, 2018

Macro Development Economics part.1 - April 3, 2018

Macro Development Economics part.2 - April 4, 2018

Macro Development Economics part.3 - April 6, 2018

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Finally on June 26, 2018 Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee participated to the conference “How to educate the world”. Here is the link to access at the webpage of this event.