Seminars
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
The virtual development economics seminar series is organized by Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics and Misum), Giacomo De Giorgi (IEE/GSEM, University of Geneva), Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE & IPEG), and Karen Macours (PSE, INRAE), with the support of CEPR. It will take place on Tuesday at 5pm Barcelona/Geneva/Paris/Stockholm, 4pm BST, 11am EST, 8am PST.
- Dedicated website for the seminar including link for registration: https://vdevecon.wixsite.com/website
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Archives
- 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 Mushfik (Yale University & CEPR) : 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 and CEPR) : 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 (Standford 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 (Stanford University) : 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)