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Poverty & Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series

February 18-April 30, 2025
Washington, DC
The World Bank

The Poverty & Applied Microeconomics Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department. The series invites leading researchers in applied microeconomics from the fields of poverty, human development, agriculture, political economy, behavioral economics, private sector development, and a range of other fields to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.

 

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule 

Date

Time

Venue

Speaker

Paper

Wednesday
February 18, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 2-116

Dennis Eager (Oxford University)

Slack and Economic Development

Wednesday February 25, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Lucia Corno (Cattolica University and LEAP)

Norm Replacement and Information. An Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting

Wednesday March 5, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Radhika Jain (University College of London)

Private Hospital Behavior Under Government Insurance: Evidence from Reimbursement Changes in India

Wednesday March 12, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4 -001

Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

TBD

Wednesday March 19, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4 -001

Hannah Druckenmiller (Caltech)

TBD

Wednesday March 26, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Gautam Rao (UC Berkeley)

TBD

Wednesday
April 2, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Denni Tommasi (University of Bologna) 

TBD

Wednesday April 23, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin)

TBD

Wednesday April 30, 2025

12:30 - 2:00pm ET

G 4-001

Isaac Mbiti (UVA)

TBD

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Last Updated: Feb 21, 2025