Coordinators: Albrecht Glitz
(Labour/Public) and Marta
Reynal-Querol (Development)
October 5
Paul Oyer (Stanford)
"The Returns to Attending a Prestigious
Law School" (with S. Schaefer)
October 15 -
please note different day, Friday
Seema Jayachandran (Stanford)
"Why
Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls less than Boys? Evidence and Implications
for Child Health in India" (with I. Kuziemko)
October 19
Fabian Waldinger (Warwick)
"Peer Effects in Science:
Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazy Germany"
October 26
Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)
"The de Soto Effect" (with T. Besley)
November 2
Robert Jensen (UCLA)
"Economic Opportunities and
Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India"
November 9
Erik Meyersson (LSE)
"Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious"
November 22 - please note different day: Monday, Room: 20.025, Time: 16.45 Special
Development Seminar-
Alan Krueger (Princeton)
"Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence
from High Frequency Longitudinal Data" (with A. Mueller)
November
23
Robin Burgess (LSE)
"Weather and Death in India" (Joint with O. Deschenes, D.
Donaldson and M. Greenstone)
November
30
Ruben Durante (Sciences Po)
"Risk, Cooperation and the
Economic Origins of Social Trust: an Empirical Investigation"
February
1
Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University)
"Micro-loars, Insecticide-treated
Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in
Orissa (India)" (Joint with A. Mahajan, B. Blackburn, D. Kopf,
L. Krishnan and J. Yoong)
February
22
Ben Olken (MIT)
"The Political Economy of Deforestation
in the Tropics" (Joint with R. burgess, M. Hansen, P. Potapov, S. Sieber)
March 8
Chris Udry (Yale)
"Risk, Credit Constraints and Investment in Agriculture in Ghana"
March 22
Kevin Lang (Boston University)
"Social Ties and the Job Search
of Recent Immigrants" (Joint with D. Goel)
March 29
Martina Bjorkman (University of Bocconi)
"The long-term effects of community-based monitoring: Evidence
from a randomized field project in Uganda"
April 5
Andrea Ichino (Bologna)
"Don't Spread Yourself too
thin" (Joint with D. Coviello and N. Persico)
April 12
Richard
Hornbeck (Harvard University)
"Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater
Access"
April
26
Yona
Rubinstein (LSE)
"Evaluating the Effect of Minimum Wage by the Differential Impact
of Federal Minimum Wage on State Effective Minimum Wages"
May 3
Mathias
Thoenig (UNIL)
"The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Evidence from
Naming Decisions by Randomly Allocated Households in Social Housing"
May
10
Karine
van der Straeten (Toulouse school of Economics)
"Laboratory Experiments on
Voting Rules" (Joint with A. Blais, J.F. Laslier and N. Sauger)
May
17
David
Dorn (CEMFI)
"The China Syndrome: Local Labor
Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States" (Joint with D. Autor and G. Hanson)
May
24
Jesse
Rothstein (Berkeley)
"Permanent Income and the
Black-White Test Score Gap" (Joint
with N. Wozny)
June
7
Greg Fischer (LSE)
"Making use of willingness to pay: a generalizable and practical
approach"
June
14 -
please note different Room: 13.003
Enrico Moretti (Berkeley)
"Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and Multiple
Equilibria: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
"
June
21 -
please note different Room: 20.237
Hugo Benítez-Silva (SUNY at Stony Brook)
"The Effects of Employment Uncertainty and Wealth Shocks on the
Labor Supply and Claiming Behavior of Older American Workers"
