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Development Research Group Winter 2024 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Monday January 8, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Florian Grosset (Columbia University) | Complementarities in Labor Supply |
| Tuesday January 9, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Lisa Ho (MIT) | Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal |
| Wednesday January 10, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Louise Paul-Delvaux (Harvard University) | Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco |
| Thursday January 11, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Emilia Brito (Brown University) | The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap |
Tuesday |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Yulu Tang (Harvard University) | To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks Note: Due to inclement weather, this seminar was moved from January 16 |
| Thursday January 18, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Felipe Camelo (New York University) | Capital Allocation and Firm Dynamics in Small Open Economies |
| Monday January 22, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Emir Murathanoglu (Michigan University) | When the Weather Turns: Coping With Shocks Through International Migration in the Presence of Search Frictions |
| Tuesday January 23, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Layane Alhorr (Harvard KSG) | Virtual Windows Through Glass Walls? Digitization for Mobility-Constrained Female Entrepreneurs. |
| Wednesday January 24, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Marie-Louise Decamps (Northwestern University) | Shifting Landscapes: The Impact of Agricultural Innovation on Deforestation |
| Thursday January 25, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Zhenxuan Wang (Duke University) | Bridge or Barrier to Net Zero? Gas Infrastructure Expansion and the Cost of Electrification |
| Monday January 29, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Fabrizio Leone (ECARES) | Global Robots |
| Tuesday January 30, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Amory Gethin (PSE) | Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2022 |
| Wednesday January 31, 2024 |
12:30 - 2:00pm ET | MC 7-100 | Mahounan Yedomiffi (UIUC) | Does Parental Involvement Improve Student Learning? The Role of Monitoring |
Fall 2023 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday August 30, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Adam Osman (University of Illinois at Urbana Chapaign) | The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders |
| Wednesday September 6, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Reshmaan Hussam (Harvard Business School) | The Household at Work: Evidence from a Refugee Camp |
| Wednesday September 13, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Teresa Molina (University of Hawaii) | Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling Decisions, and Export Manufacturing |
| Wednesday September 20, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Monica Lambon-Quayefio (University of Ghana) | Technology Options for Labour Market Efficiency: Emerging Evidence from Ghana |
| Wednesday September 27, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Lucas Zavala (DIME, World Bank) | Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade |
| Wednesday October 4, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jason Kerwin (University of Minnesota) | Reading for Life: Lasting Impacts of a Literacy Intervention in Uganda |
| Wednesday October 11, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guilherme Lichand (Stanford Graduate School of Education) | Parent-Bias |
| Wednesday October 18, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Louis Preonas (University of Maryland) | Blackouts: The Role of India’s Wholesale Electricity Market |
| Wednesday October 25, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Sarah Deschênes (Northwestern University) | Expanding Access to Schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes |
| Wednesday November 1, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Tarek Ghani (Washington University) | Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises? |
| Wednesday November 8, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (University of Maryland) | Effect of Referring Business Partners on Firm Networks and Performance |
| Wednesday November 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute) | Social Networks, Gender Norms and Labor Supply: Experimental Evidence Using a Job Search Platform |
| Wednesday November 29, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) | Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation on Social Pressure and Relative Ranks |
| Wednesday December 6, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University) | The Effects of a STEM High School Curriculum |
Spring 2023 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday February 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Samuel Bazzi (UCSD) | Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration |
| Wednesday February 22, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Eoin McGuirk (Tufts) | Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa |
| Wednesday March 1, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Saravana Ravindran (National University of Singapore) | Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica |
| Wednesday March 8, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (UPenn, UAB) | Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village |
| Wednesday March 15, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Guy Grossman (UPenn) | When Refugee Presence Increases Incumbent Support through International Development |
| Tuesday March 21, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 2-520 | Julian Jamison (University of Exeter) | Empirical Facts about Normative Values and Evaluating the Future Note: This seminar is co-sponsored by eMBed and the Poverty & Equity Global Practice |
| Wednesday March 22, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Diana Moreira (UC Davis) | Who Benefits from Meritocracy? |
| Wednesday March 29, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Jonas Hjort (University Colleage London) | Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies |
| Wednesday April 5, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Claudio Ferraz (U British Columbia) | When Democracy Refuses to Die: Evaluating a Training Program for New Politicians |
| Wednesday April 12, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Namrata Kala (MIT) | Environmental Permits, Regulatory Capacity, and Firm Outcomes |
| Wednesday April 19, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Juan-Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile) | Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá |
| Wednesday April 26, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-850 | Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U) | How Do Voters Respond to Welfare vis-a-vis Public Good Programs? An Empirical Test of Political Clientelism |
| Wednesday May 3, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Fred Finan (UC Berkeley) | Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles |
| Wednesday May 10, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Simon Quinn (University of Oxford) | Matching, Management and the Search for Work: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design |
| Wednesday May 17, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Garance Genicot (Georgetown U) | Measuring Upward Mobility |
| Wednesday May 24, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Ethan Ligon (UC Berkeley) | Risk Sharing Tests and Covariate Shocks |
| Wednesday May 31, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Paulina Oliva (USC) | Targeting Subsidies through Price Menus: Contract Design and Evidence from Clean Fuels |
| Wednesday June 7, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | MC 3-570 | Matias Busso (IDB) | Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates |
| CANCELLED Wednesday June 14, 2023 |
12:30 - 1:45pm ET | Diana Contreras Suarez (University of Melbourne) | Swaying Gender Norms Around Women’s Work in Indonesia: Evidence from an Online Intervention |
Development Research Group Winter 2023 Seminar Series
This short and intense spring series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Monday January 9, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Diana Sverdlin Lisker | Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico |
| Tuesday January 10, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Suzanna Khalifa | Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price |
| Wednesday January 11, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Garima Sharma | Monopsony and Gender |
| Thursday January 12, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Ruozi Song | Pollution Taxes as a Second-Best: Accounting for Multidimensional Firm Heterogeneity in Environmental Regulations |
| Tuesday January 17, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Heitor Sandes Pellegrina | Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil’s March to the West |
| Wednesday January 18, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Juanma Castro-Vincenz | Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry |
| Thursday January 19, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Katherine Stapleton | AI, Firms and Wages: Evidence from India |
| Monday January 23, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Dario Tortarolo | Can VAT Cuts on Foodstuffs Dampen the Effects of Inflation? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Argentina |
| Tuesday January 24, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Jonah Rexer | The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector |
| Wednesday January 25, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Anna Vitali | Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda |
| Thursday January 26, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Livia Alfonsi | Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors |
| Monday January 30, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET | MC 3-570 | Binta Zahra Diop | Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation |
| Tuesday January 31, 2023 |
12:30 - 2:00 ET |
MC 3-570 | Shafaat Yar Khan | Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty |
Fall 2022 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday September 7, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Tom Vogl (UCSD) | Fertility and the Education of Parents and Children in Africa |
| Wednesday September 14, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Alessandra Voena (Stanford) | Cultural Institutions and Structural Change: Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate |
| Wednesday September 21, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | David McKenzie (World Bank) | Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce “Backway” Migration from The Gambia? |
| Wednesday September 28, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Jishnu Das (Georgetown) | Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets |
| Wednesday October 5, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 4-301 | Mauricio Romero (ITAM) | COVID-19 Learning Loss and Recovery: Panel Data Evidence from India |
| Wednesday October 12, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-850 | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) | Seasonal Poverty, Remittance Constraints, and Loans |
| CANCELED Wednesday October 19, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | Note that this seminar has been canceled. | Frank Schilbach (MIT) | |
| Wednesday October 26, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago) | The Effectiveness of Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Motivating Healthy Habits |
| Wednesday November 2, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Michela Carlana (Harvard University) | Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes |
| Wednesday November 9, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Christina Brown (University of Chicago) | Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity |
| Wednesday November 16, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Marie Christelle Mabeu (Stanford University) | Colonial Origins of Fertility Behaviors: Evidence on the Role of Forced Labor Migration in Burkina Faso |
| Wednesday November 30, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Arthur Blouin (University of Toronto) | Enforce or Entrust? Experimental Evidence on Combating Corruption |
| Wednesday December 7, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 4-301 | Megan Lang (World Bank) | The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Building Skills in Uganda |
| Wednesday December 14, 2022 |
12:30 - 1:45 ET | MC 3-570 | Jeanne Lafortune (PUC Chile) | Smooth(er) Landing? The Dynamic Role of Networks in the Location and Occupational Choice of Immigrants |
Spring 2022 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| February 17, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Oeindrila Dube (U of Chicago) |
Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan |
| February 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Clare Balboni (MIT) | The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics |
| March 3, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern U) |
Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning |
| March 17, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Susan Athey (Stanford) | Shared Decision-Making about Contraception: An Adaptive Experiment |
| March 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Muhammad Yasir Khan (U of Pittsburgh) | Mission motivation and public sector performance: Experimental evidence from Pakistan |
| March 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online |
Nicolas Ajzenman (Sao Paulo School of Economics) | Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions |
| April 7, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley) | The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply |
| April 21, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Rohini Pande (Yale) | Updating the State: Information Acquisition Costs and Public Benefit Delivery |
| April 28, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Siwan Anderson (U British Columbia) | Harm and Harmony |
| May 5, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Martine Visser (U Cape Town) | Image Motivation for Pro-social Behavior: Evidence from South Africa |
| May 12, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm | Online | Benoit Decerf (World Bank) | The Poverty-adjusted Life Expectancy Index: A consistent aggregation of the quantity and the quality of life |
| May 26, 2022 | 9:45 - 11:00am | Online | Junjie Zhang (Duke Kunshan) | Carbon Leakage within Firm Ownership Networks |
Development Research Group Winter 2022 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by predominantly junior scholars.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Paper |
| January 10, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Jacobus Cilliers (Georgetown University) | Can Virtual Replace In-person Coaching? Experimental Evidence on Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning |
| January 11, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Jean-François Gauthier (Boston College) |
Effect of Minimum Wages on Automation and Offshoring Decisions of Firms: Evidence from India |
| January 12, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Caue Dobbin (Stanford University) | The Equilibrium Effects of Subsidized Student Loans |
| January 13, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Niharika Singh (Columbia University) | Hiring Frictions in Urban Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from India |
| January 14, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Carolina Lopez (Brown University) | Tripping at the Finish Line: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Misperceptions on Secondary School Completion |
| January 18, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Maria Jose Carreras Valle (University of Minnesota) | Increasing Inventories: The Role of Delivery Times |
| January 19, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University) | Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? |
| January 20, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:15pm EST | Zeina Hasna (University of Cambridge) | The Grass Is Actually Greener on the Other Side: Evidence on Green Multipliers from the United States |
| January 21, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Shoumitro Chatterjee (Pennsylvania State University) | Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India |
| January 24, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Kim Fe Cramer (Columbia Business School) | Bank Presence and Health |
| January 25, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Kristina Manysheva (Northwestern University) | Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries |
| January 26, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Carlos Burga (Princeton University) | Bank Competition, Capital Misallocation, and Industry Concentration: Evidence from Peru |
| January 27, 2022 | 11:00am - 12:15pm EST | Federica Zeni (Imperial College London) | The Optimal Design of Green Securities |
| January 28, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Manuel García-Santana (Princeton University) | Government Procurement and Access to Credit: Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications |
| January 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Mayara Felix (MIT) | Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages |
Development Research Group Fall 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Natalia Rigol (Harvard Business School) |
Strategic Disclosure of Loan Officers and Graduation From Microfinance: Evidence from Chile |
| Thursday September 9, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Alex Eble (Columbia University) |
When bootstraps aren’t enough: Aspirations, learning, and educational supply in a low-income context |
| Thursday September 23, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, Columbia University) |
‘We Are Not Guinea Pigs’: The Effects of Negative News on Vaccine Compliance |
| Thursday September 30, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) |
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence |
| Thursday October 7, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Pia Raffler (Harvard) |
Does Political Oversight of the Bureaucracy Increase Accountability? Field Experimental Evidence from an Electoral Autocracy |
| Thursday October 14, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes) |
Political Incentives and Corruption: Evidence from Ghost Students |
| Thursday October 28, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Luis Martinez (Chicago Harris) |
Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia |
| Thursday November 4, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Sandra Rozo (World Bank) |
Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesties in Migrant’s Life |
| Thursday November 11, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School) |
Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia |
| Thursday December 2, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Matt Lowe (UBC) |
Religious Revival and Social Order |
| Thursday December 16, 2021 |
12:30 – 1:45 pm EST | Online | Anja Sautmann (World Bank) | Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls to Encourage Home Reading with Children in Kenya |
Development Research Group Spring 2021 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday February 25, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST |
Online | Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton) | Gangs, labor mobility and development |
| Thursday March 4, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST |
Online | Zoe Cullen (Harvard) |
The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap |
Thursday |
12:30 - 1:45pm EST | Online | Raymond Fisman (Boston U) |
Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement:Evidence from Italian Government Contracting |
| Thursday March 18, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Treb Allen (Dartmouth) |
Trucks |
| Thursday April 8, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT | Online | Oriana Bandiera (LSE) |
The Long Shadow of Viral Pandemics |
| Thursday April 22, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Sara Lowes (Harvard) |
Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior |
| Thursday May 6, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Manisha Shah (UCLA) |
Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence |
| Thursday May 13, 2021 |
12:30 - 1:45pm EDT |
Online | Ellora Derenoncourt (Berkeley) |
Racial inequality, minimum wages, and the informal sector |
| Thursday May 27, 2021 |
3:30 - 4:45 pm EDT | Online | Leslie Martin (U Melbourne) |
Price Discrimination, Search, and Negotiation in an Oligopoly: A Field Experiment in Retail Electricity |
Development Research Group Winter 2020/21 Seminar Series
This short and intense winter series, which takes place while the regular microeconomics seminar series is on hiatus for ten weeks, contains talks on all topics related to development economics by junior scholars.
Development Research Group Fall 2020 Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Thursday September 10 |
12:30 - 1:45 | Online | Ruixue Jia (UCSD) |
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Academic Talent and Firm Creation in China |
| Thursday September 24 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Maximilian Kasy (Oxford) | How to Run an Adaptive Field Experiment Slides: How to run an adaptive field experiment Adaptive treatment assignment in experiments for policy choice |
| Thursday October 1 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Webex | Shanjun Li (Cornell Dyson) |
Transportation Policies, Urban Structure, and Equilibrium Sorting |
| Thursday October 8 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | David Yang (Harvard) |
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China |
| Thursday October 15 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Gaurav Khanna (UCSD) |
The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China |
| Thursday October 29 |
12:30 - 2 pm | Online | Gilles Duranton |
Urban Growth and Its Aggregate Implications |
| Thursday November 5 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Kate Baldwin (Yale) |
When Do Foreign Aid Projects Inflate Support for Incumbents? Voter Information and Political Oversight in Uganda |
| Thursday November 12 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Manuela Angelucci (UT Austin) |
Mental Health Care, Depression, and Economic Behavior: Evidence from India |
| Thursday December 3 |
12:30 - 1:45 pm | Online | Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) | The Supply and Demand Effects of Financial Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Branchless Banking in Indonesia |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | 12:30 – 1:45 pm | Online | Christopher Neilson (Princeton) | Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru |
Spring 2020 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Wednesday Feb 26 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Suresh Naidu |
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| Wednesday Mar 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Thomas Fujiwara |
Local Politicians and the Deforestation of the Amazon |
| Wednesday Mar 11 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Gilles Duranton |
Mobility and congestion in urban India |
| Wednesday Mar 25 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Fred Finan |
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| Wednesday Apr 1 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Alvaro Pedraza |
Selective Communication, Stock Market Entry, and Performance
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| Wednesday Apr 8 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Arik Levinson |
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| Wednesday Apr 15 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 4-001/G 7-140 | Oeindrila Dube (Chicago Harris) CANCELLED |
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| Wednesday Apr 22 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Zoe Cullen |
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| Wednesday Apr 29 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | CANCELLED
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| Wednesday May 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 |
Emmanuelle Auriol |
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| Wednesday May 13 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Anne Karing |
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| Wednesday May 20 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Manisha Shah |
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| Wednesday May 27 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Sara Heller |
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| Wednesday Jun 3 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Basit Zafar |
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| Wednesday Oct 28 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Manuela Angelucci (UT) |
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Fall 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Sep 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Austin Wright (Chicago Harris) | Rebel Capacity and Combat Tactics |
| Sep 11 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Ben Olken (MIT) | Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia |
| Sep 18 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Jonathan Colmer (UVA) | The Economics of Marine Conservation |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Karen Macours (PSE) | Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years |
| Oct 2 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Rosella Calvi (Rice) | Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty |
| Oct 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 10-100 | Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi) | Interaction, Stereotypes and Performance: Evidence from South Africa |
| Oct 16 | 12:30 - 2 pm | G 8-090 | Rodrigo Soares (Columbia SIPA) | Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations |
| Oct 23 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Erika Deserranno (Northwestern Kellogg) | Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services |
| Oct 30 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Natalie Bau (UCLA) | Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India |
| Nov 6 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 9-100 | Jie Bai (HKS) | Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover and Industrial Quality Upgrading |
| Nov 13 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Sylvie Lambert (PSE) | Adoption of improved seeds, land allocation and welfare: Evidence from DRC |
| Dec 4 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) | Sophisticated Policy with Naive Agents: Habit Formation and Optimal Water Pricing in Vietnam |
| Dec 9 | 12:30 - 2 pm | MC 3-570 | John Firth (University of Notre Dame) |
I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production |
Spring 2019 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
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| Feb 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Frank Schilbach (MIT) | Does Poverty Lower Productivity? |
| March 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Nate Baum-Snow (Toronto) | The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families |
| March 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Xavier Gine (World Bank) | Targeting Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania |
| March 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alessandra Voena (Chicago) | Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments |
| March 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jeremy Magruder (Berkeley) | Irrigation in Rwanda: Farmers' responses to a massive change in the production possibility frontier |
| April 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Johannes Haushofer (Princeton) | General Equilibrium Welfare Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya |
| April 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | G 8-090 | Lucie Gadenne (Warwick) | Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India |
| April 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Maureen Cropper (UMD) | Why Do Discrete Choice Approaches to Valuing Climate Amenities Yield Different Results Than Hedonic Models? |
| April 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rebecca Dizon-Ross (Chicago) | Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences |
| May 1 | 10:30 - 12:00 pm | MC 10-100 | Esther Duflo (MIT) | Leveraging Data Science, Experiments, and Informal Social Networks to Improve Immunization in India |
| May 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Siwan Anderson (UBC) | Marriage, Commitment and Social Norms: Theory and Evidence from Egypt |
| May 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Joana Naritomi (LSE) | Job Displacement Insurance and (The Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing |
| May 22 | No seminar |
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| May 29 | No seminar | |||
| June 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Andrew Foster (Brown) | Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size |
| June 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mar Reguant (Northwestern) | Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets |
| June 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Cormac O'Dea (Yale) | Insurance, Efficiency and the Design of Public Pensions |
| June 26 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tristan Reed (World Bank) | Interlinked Transactions and Competition: Experimental Evidence from Cocoa Markets |
Fall 2018 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Julien Labonne (University of Oxford) | Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Felipe Barrera-Osorio (HGSE) | Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan |
| Sep 19 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Attila Ambrus (Duke) | Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information |
| Sep 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Giacomo de Giorgi (Geneva) | From Farmers to Entrepreneurs |
| Oct 3 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gabriel Kreindler (Chicago/ Harvard) | The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
| Oct 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Rachael Meager (LSE) | Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature |
| Oct 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gerard Padro-i-Miguel (Yale) | Doing Business in China: The Interplay between Parental and Governmental Influence |
| Oct 24 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Paul Dower (Wisconsin) | Land rights, rental markets, and the post-socialist cityscape |
| Oct 31 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po) | Elections as Incentives: Project Completion and Visibility in African Politics |
| Nov 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mark Agerton (UC Davis) | Learning Where to Drill: Drilling Decisions and Geological Quality in the Haynesville Shale |
| Nov 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Ted Miguel (Berkeley) | Skill versus Voice in Local Development |
| Nov 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jessica Goldberg (UMD) | Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Under-detection: A Field Experiment in India |
| Dec 5 | 12:00 - 1:30 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Please note this seminar is cancelled due to closure of World Bank headquarters. |
| Dec 10 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Sean Higgins (Berkeley) | Financial Technology Adoption |
2018 Spring Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| June 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson | The Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families |
| June 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Oyebola Okunogbe | Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing |
| June 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Fernanda Brollo | The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil |
| June 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alex Anas | The optimal mix of pricing and infrastructure expansions to alleviate traffic congestion and in-bus crowding in Grand Casablanca |
| May 30 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Aislinn Bohren | The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence |
| May 23 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hoyt Bleakley | A Nudge to School: Triangulating the Gains |
| May 16 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby | Governing the Commons? Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin |
| May 9 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Mushfiq Mobarak | Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Sanitation in Bangladesh |
| May 2 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Kristian Behrens | Are clusters resilient? Evidence from Canadian textile industries |
| April 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Owen Ozier/ Pam Jakiela | Gendered Language |
| April 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Alwyn Young | Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application |
| April 11 |
12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Verhoogen | Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia |
| April 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Clement Imbert | Costs and Benefits of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from India |
| March 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Gautam Rao | The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans |
| March 14 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Supreet Kaur | The Limits of Neighborly Exchange |
| March 7 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anna Alberini | Response to Extreme Energy Price Changes: Evidence from Ukraine |
| Feb 28 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eric Edmonds | The Transmission of Gender Norms |
2017 Schedule of Seminars
| Date | Time | Venue | Speaker | Paper |
| Dec 13 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Daniel Mahler | The Roots of Inequality: Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees |
| Dec 6 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Asim Khwaja (HKS) | Crossing Boundaries: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints for Women |
| Nov 29 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Juliano Assuncao (PUC-Rio, Brazil) | Electrification, Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil |
| Nov 15 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jishnu Das (World Bank) | Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools |
| Nov 8 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Paul Niehaus (UCSD) | General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India | |
| Nov 1 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Anthony Keats (Wesleyan) | What Can We Learn from Babies Born During Health-Worker Strikes? |
| Oct 25 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Robyn Meeks (Duke) | Grid versus Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development |
| Oct 18 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda |
| Oct 11 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | I 4-020 | Henrik Kleven (LSE Princeton) | Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark |
| Oct 4 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Emily Breza (Harvard) | Information Delivery Under Endogenous Communication: Evidence from the Indian Demonetization |
| Sep 27 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Shing-Yi Wang (Wharton) | Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China |
| Sep 20 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Jing Cai (Maryland) | Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance |
| Sep 12 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Francisco Ferreira | Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the decline in earnings inequalityin Brazil, 1995-2012 |
| Sept 6 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Antonio Bento, USC, NBER; Kevin Roth, UC-Irvine; Andrew Waxman, Arizona State University | Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency |
| Jun 28 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Hanan Jacoby, World Bank | Decentralizing Rent-seeking: Water and Power in Pakistan's Indus Basin |
| Jun 22 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Quy-Toan Do, World Bank | On the Speculative Poaching of African Elephants |
| Jun 14 |
12:30 – 2:00 pm |
MC 3-570 | Vivian Hoffmann, International Food Policy Research Institute | Relief from Usury: Impact of a Self-Help Group Lending Program in Rural India |
| Jun 7 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Manoj Mohanan, Duke University | Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills |
| May 31 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Sam Asher,World Bank | Dirty Politics: Mining Booms and Politician Behavior in India |
| May 24 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Stephen Smith, George Washington University | How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda |
| May 17 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Duncan Thomas, Duke University | Child health after a natural disaster |
| May 3 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Christopher Timmins, Duke University | Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas |
| Apr 26 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 |
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University | Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private Agents or Local Governments? |
| Apr 12 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Eli Fenichel, Yale University | Ecosystem Based Management and the Wealth of Ecosystems |
| Apr 5 | 12:30 – 2:00 pm | MC 3-570 | Tarek Ghani, Washington University of St. Louis | Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan |
| Mar 29 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC3-570 | Amy Ando, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Reducing climate-related uncertainty in outcomes of investments: When does spatial conservation portfolio diversification work best? |
| Mar 22 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Andrew Newman, Boston University | Loopholes and the Evolution of Contract Form |
| Mar 15 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Gaurav Khanna (CGD & UCSD) | Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India |
| Mar 8 | 12:30- 2:00pm | MC 3-570 | Jessica Goldberg, University of Maryland | Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Evidence from Malawi |
MC 8-100
| MC 3-570 |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |
| 12:30- 2:00pm |