Seminars

Virtual Development Economics Seminar

VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars is an online seminar series, featuring invited speakers in the area of Development Economics. It was set up in the spring semester of 2020 as the VDEV seminar and is now organised jointly by the group of researchers below, CEPR and BREAD.

Organisers:

Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics, Misum, BREAD and CEPR)
Giacomo De Giorgi (IEE/GSEM, University of Geneva, BREAD and CEPR)
Garance Genicot (Georgetown University, BREAD, NBER, ThReD and CEPR)
Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard, BREAD and CEPR)
Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), IPEG, BREAD and CEPR)
Karen Macours (PSE, INRAE, BREAD and CEPR)
Anthony Wambugu (University of Nairobi)

Sessions will take place on bi-weekly on Tuesdays and last for 1 hour.

Dedicated website for the registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EtJHOurhTKG2pxwKcH9C8g#/registration

Upcoming events

Tuesday 22 October 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
ALMÅS Ingvild (Monash University) : *
Tuesday 5 November 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
ISLAM Asad (Monash University) : *
Tuesday 19 November 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
KAUR Supreet (UC Berkeley, BREAD and CEPR) : *
Tuesday 3 December 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
YANG Li (University of Michigan and BREAD) : *

Archives

Tuesday 8 October 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
OLIVA Paulina (University of Southern California and BREAD) : Scale Effects of Rapid Transit and Automobile Adoption
Tuesday 24 September 2024 16:00-17:00
Zoom
CASSEN Guilhem (University of Namur) : Political Determinants of the News Market: Novel Data and Quasi-Experimental. Evidence from India
Julia Cagé (Sciences Po), Francesca Jensenius (University of Oslo)
Abstract
Information conveyed through news media influences political behavior. But to what extent are media markets themselves shaped by political determinants? We build a novel panel dataset of newspaper markets in India from 2002 to 2017 to measure the impact of changes in apportionment on how news markets develop over time. We exploit the announcement of an exogenous change in the boundaries of electoral constituencies to causally identify the relationship between the (future) apportionment of news markets and the change in the number and circulation of newspapers. Using an event-study, a staggered difference-in-differences approach and placebos, we show that markets that became more electorally important experienced a significant rise in both circulation and the number of titles per capita. We document how effects vary with prior levels of political competition and newspapers’ characteristics, and discuss implications for voting behavior and democratic accountability.
Tuesday 4 June 2024 17:00-18:00
Zoom
CATTANEO CRISTINA Orazio ((Yale University and CEPR)) : *
Tuesday 21 May 2024 17:00-18:00
Zoom
CORNO Lucia ((Cattolica University and CEPR)) : *
Tuesday 23 April 2024 17:00-18:00
Zoom
GENICOT Garance ((Georgetown University and CEPR)) : *
Tuesday 9 April 2024 17:00-18:00
Zoom
BHALOTRA Sonia ((Warwick University and CEPR)) : *
Tuesday 26 March 2024 17:00-18:00
Zoom
WAMBUGU NDIRANGU Anthony (University of Nairobi) : *
Tuesday 7 June 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
DELL Melissa (Harvard University & CEPR) : How Deep Learning Can Help Us Understand Economic Development
Tuesday 24 May 2022 17:00-18:15
On Line
LEON-CILIOTA Gianmarco ((U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), IPEG, BREAD and CEPR)) : Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector
with Erika Deserranno and Philipp Kastrau.
Tuesday 10 May 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
BJÖRKMAN NYQVIST Martina (Stockholm School of Economics & CEPR) : Community Health Provision at Scale: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Uganda
with Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson, and Phyllis Awor
Tuesday 26 April 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
THOMAS DUNCAN (Duke University & CEPR) : Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster
joint with Nicholas Ingwersen and Elizabeth Frankenberg
Tuesday 12 April 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
WANTCHEKON Léonard (Princeton & ASE) : Externalities of Colonial Schools
Tuesday 29 March 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
CASEY Kate (Standford University & CEPR) : Scaling Political Information Campaigns
Tuesday 15 March 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
WOODRUF Chris (University of Oxford, BREAD & CEPR) : Long-run Effects of Cash Grants: The Sri Lanka Microenterprise Project after 10 years
w. S. De Mel and D. McKenzie
Tuesday 1 March 2022 17:00-18:15
On line
RASUL Imran (UCL, IFS,BREAD & CEPR) : The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
with O. Bandiera (LSE), V. Bassi (USC), R. Burgess (LSE), M. Sulaiman (BRAC) and A. Vitali (UCL)
Tuesday 14 December 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
DONALDSON Dave (MIT & CEPR) : Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence
joint with Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth), Paul Carrillo (GWU), Arnaud Costinot (MIT) and Dina Pomeranz (Zurich)
Tuesday 30 November 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
ALAN SULE (EUI & CEPR) : Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention
Tuesday 16 November 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
ROSENZWEIG Mark (Yale University) : Democratization, Development and Elite Capture
Tuesday 2 November 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
MURALIDHARAN Karthik (UC San Diego & CEPR) : General equilibrium effects of (improving) public employment programs: experimental evidence from India
Tuesday 19 October 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
GOLDBERG Penny (Yale University) : Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Tuesday 5 October 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
MACOURS Karen (PSE & CEPR) : Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years
with M. Caridad Araujo
Tuesday 21 September 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
MOBARAK Musfiq (Yale University) : The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
with C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez- Pena and Jaya Wen
Tuesday 7 September 2021 17:00-18:15
On line
FIELD Erica (Duke University & CEPR) : A signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
with Nina Buchmann, Rachel Glennerster, Shahana Nazneen and Xiao Yu Wang
Tuesday 8 June 2021 17:00-18:15
BURGESS Robin (LSE and CEPR) : *
Tuesday 25 May 2021 17:00-18:15
YANAGIZAWA-DROTT David (University of Zurich and CEPR) : *
Tuesday 11 May 2021 17:00-18:15
ATKIN David (MIT& CPER) : *
Tuesday 27 April 2021 17:00-18:15
FERRAZ Claudio (University of British Columbia) : *
Tuesday 13 April 2021 17:00-18:15
ASHRAF Nava (LSE and CEPR) : *
Tuesday 30 March 2021 17:00-18:15
I KHWAJA Asim (Harvard Kennedy School and CEPR) : *
Tuesday 16 March 2021 17:00-18:15
HANNA REMA (Harvard Kennedy School and CEPR) : Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
w/ Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Elan Satriawan and Sudarno Sumarto
Tuesday 2 March 2021 17:00-18:15
QIAN Nancy (Northwestern University) : Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Services
w/ Erika Deserranno and Aisha Nansamba
Tuesday 15 December 2020 17:00-18:15
BANDIERA Oriana (LSE) : Why do people stay poor?
C. Balboni, R. Burgess, M. Ghatak and A. Heil
Tuesday 1 December 2020 17:00-18:15
VOENA Alessandra (Stanford University) : Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in Desired Fertility
N. Ashraf, E. Field et R Zimparo
Tuesday 24 November 2020 17:00-18:15
FOSTER Andrew (Brown University) : Commencez ce que vous avez terminé ! Risque ex ante et investissements scolaires en présence de complémentarités dynamiques
Esther Gehrke
Tuesday 10 November 2020 17:00-18:15
SVENSSON Jakob (IIES, Stockholm University) : Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Randomized Experiments
Tuesday 27 October 2020 17:00-18:15
PANDE Rohini (Yale) : nvesting in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Educational Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
Tuesday 13 October 2020 17:00-18:15
OLKEN Ben (MIT) : Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia
Tuesday 29 September 2020 17:00-18:15
MIGUEL Ted (University of California Berkeley) : Vingt ans d'impacts économiques du déparasitage
Tuesday 15 September 2020 17:00-18:15
BANERJEE Abhijit (MIT) : Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
Tuesday 28 July 2020 17:00-18:30
SURI Tavneet (MIT) : TBA
Tuesday 21 July 2020
NO Seminar : NBER SI Development
Tuesday 14 July 2020 17:00-18:30
DUFLO Esther (MIT) : TBA
Tuesday 7 July 2020 17:00-18:30
LA FERRARA Eliana (Bocconi University) : À part mais connecté: tutorat en ligne pour atténuer l'impact de COVID-19 sur les inégalités scolaires.
Michela Carlana
Tuesday 23 June 2020 17:00-18:30
MEGHIR Costas (Yale University) : Migration and Informal Insurance
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Corina D. Mommaerts and Melanie Morten
Tuesday 16 June 2020
NO Seminar : Barcelona GSE Advances in Micro Development (virtual) Workshop
Tuesday 9 June 2020 17:00-18:30
DUPAS Pascaline : Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi.
NHLEMA Basimenya, WAGNER Zachary, WOLF Aaron and WROE Emily
Tuesday 2 June 2020 17:00-18:30
UDRY Chris (Northwestern University) : Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Lori Beaman, Dean karlan, and Bram Thuysbaert
Full text [pdf]
Tuesday 26 May 2020 17:00-18:30
KREMER Michael (Harvard University) : Is Development Innovation a Good Investment? Which Innovations Scale? Evidence on social investing from USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures.
Sasha Gallant, Olga Rostapshova, and Milan Thomas
Tuesday 19 May 2020 17:00-18:30
SADOULET Elisabeth (UC Berkeley) : Catching a Wider Net: Sharing Information Beyond Social networks
Manzoor Dar, Alain de Janvry, Kyle Emerick, and Erin Kelley
Tuesday 12 May 2020 17:00-18:30
JAYACHANDRAN Seema (Northwestern University) : Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
Friday 1 November 2019 11:00-12:30
Virtual Séminaire
Julian L. Garritzmann (University of Konstanz)