ECON 3105: Seminar in Economic Development
Date | Speaker | Paper |
9/10/2018 | Andrew Foster, Brown University | Are There too Many Farms in the World? Labor-market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size - with Mark Rosenzweig |
9/17/2018 |
Soeren Henn, PhD Candidate, Harvard |
Complements or Substitutes: How Institutional Choices Shape the Interaction Between Traditional Leaders and the State in Africa |
9/24/2018 |
Gabriel Tourek, PhD Candidate, Harvard |
Taxes, Reference Dependence, and Regressivity: Evidence from Rwandan Firms |
10/1/2018 | Stephanie Majerowicz, PhD Candidate, Harvard | Experimental Evidence of an In-Service Teacher Coaching Program in Peru |
10/15/2018 | Abraham Holland, PhD Candidate, Harvard | The Effect of Perceived Preference Heterogeneity on Choices between Allocation Mechanisms |
10/22/2018 | Siddharth George, PhD Candidate, Harvard |
How Do Political Dynasties Affect Economic Development? Theory and Evidence from India |
10/29/2018 | Nick Tsivanidis, Dartmouth College | The Aggregate And Distributional Effects Of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence From Bogotá’s TransMilenio |
11/5/2018 | Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley | |
11/12/2018 | Melanie Morten, Stanford University | Border Walls - with Treb Allen and Caue Dobbin |
11/19/2018 | Claudia Steinwender, Sloan School, MIT | Spinning the Web: Codifiability, Information Frictions and Trade (with Réka Juhász) |
11/26/2018 | Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago | Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia |
12/3/2018 | Michael Best, Columbia University | Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats with Oriana Bandiera, Adnan Khan and Andrea Prat |
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