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.
Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
Wednesday | 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 | 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