Coordinators: Ghazala Azmat
(Labour/Public) and Marta Reynal-Querol
(Development)
October 7
Rohini Pande (Harvard University)
"Powerful Women: Can Exposure
Reduce Bias?" (joint with L. Beaman, R. Chattopadhyay, E. Duflo
and P. Topalova)
October 15 - please note different
day, Wednesday, and different room: 20.137 -
Gerard Padró (London School
of Economics)
"The
rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa"
October 20 - please note different
day, Monday, different hour, 4 pm and room: 13.102 -
Richard Disney (Nottingham University)
"House Price Shocks and Household
Indebtedness in the United Kingdom" (joint with S. Bridges
and J. Gathergood)
October 21
Jordi Blanes i Vidal (London School of Economics)
"Behaviour
in Networks of Collaborators: Theory and Evidence from the English Judiciary"
(joint with C. Leaver)
October 28
Elsa V. Artadi (Bocconi University)
"Less Conflict, Worse Institutions: Why Aid might not Help Africa"
November 4
Sandra McNally (London School of Economics)
"The Three Rs: the Scope for
Literacy and Numeracy Policies to Raise Achievement" (joint
with Steve Machin)
November 11
Christina Gathmann (Stanford University)
"How General is Human Capital?
A Task-Based Approach" (joint with Uta Schönberg)
November 18
Elizabeth Ananat (Duke University)
"The Marginal Child throughout
the Life Cycle: Evidence from Early Law Variation" (joint with
J. N. Lahey)
December 2
Monika Bütler (St. Gallen University)
"The Role of the Annuity’s
Value on the Decision (Not) to Annuitize: Evidence from a Large Policy
Change" (joint with S. Staubli and M. G. Zito)
January 13
Esther Duflo (MIT)
"Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya" (with
M. Kremer, J. Robinson)
March 10 - please note room 20.237-
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
"Marry for what: caste and
mate selection in Modern India" (joint with E. Duflo, M. Ghatak
and J. Lafortune)
March 17 -
please note room 20.237-
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
"Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee
Data"
March 24 -
please note room 20.237-
Terviö Marko (Helsinki School of Economics)
"Overworked and Overpaid: Failure in the Market for Job Experience"
April 21
Tim Besley (London School of Economics)
"Do Democracies Select Better Leaders?"
April 28
Daniel Wilson (San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank)
"Tax Competition Among U.S. States: Racing to the Bottom or Riding
on a Seesaw?"
May 5 - joint with External Finance
-
David Thesmar (École de Commerce de Paris)
"Limits of Limits of Arbitrage:
Theory and Evidence" (joint with J. Hombert)
May 12
Erzo Luttmer (Harvard University)
"What Good Is Wealth Without Health?
The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption" (joint
with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo)
May 19
Monica Singhal (Harvard Kennedy School)
"Informal Taxation" (joint
with Ben Olken)
May 26
Nancy Qian (Brown University)
"The Power of Propaganda: The
Effect of U.S. Government Bias on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Abuses" (joint with D. Yanagizawa)
June 3 -
please note different day, Wednesday, and different room: 40.041 -
Dean Karlan (Yale University)
"Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply
Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila"
June 10 -
please note different day, Wednesday, and different room: 40.047A -
Claudio Ferraz (Universidad Catôlica de Rio de Janeiro)
"Motivating Politicians: The
Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance"
(joint with F. Finan)
June 16
Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon)
"Inefficiencies
from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of
Tiebout" (joint with S. Calabrese and R. Romano)
July 7 -
please note different room: Sala de Graus A. Calsamiglia (40.035) and
time, 4.15 pm -
Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)
"A General Theory of Matching
Estimation - abstract"