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April 21, 2009. Tim Besley (London School of Economics) "Do Democracies Select Better Leaders?" (joint with Marta Reynal-Querol), in our Development Seminar Series.

March 17, 2009. Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University) "Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data", in our Development Seminar Series.

March 10, 2009. Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) "Marry for what: caste and mate selection in Modern India" (joint with E. Duflo, M. Ghatak and J. Lafortune), in our Development Seminar series.

January 13, 2009. Esther Duflo (MIT) "Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya" (with M. Kremer, J. Robinson), in our Development Seminar series.

October 28, 2008. Elsa V. Artadi (Bocconi University) "Less Conflict, Worse Institutions: Why Aid might not Help Africa" in our Development Seminar series.

October 15, 2008. Gerard Padró (London School of Economics) "The rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa" in our Development Seminar series.

October 7, 2008. Rohini Pande (Harvard University) "Powerful Women: Can Exposure Reduce Bias?" (joint with L. Beaman, R. Chattopadhyay, E. Duflo and P. Topalova) in our Development Seminar series.

June 13, 2008. Jakob Svensson (IIES - Stockholm University) "Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda" (joint with Martina Björkman) in our Development Seminar series.

May 7, 2008. Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University) "The Financial Lives of the Poor: A Behavioral Model of Poverty Traps" in our Development Seminar series.

April 21, 2008. Alwyn Young (LSE) presents the paper "In Sorrow to Bring Forth Children: Fertility amidst the Plague of HIV" in the CREI-Macroeconomics seminar.

April 18, 2008. Eliana La Ferrara (Università Bocconi; IGIER) presents the paper "Soap operas and fertility. Evidence from Brazil" (joint with A. Chong and S. Duryea) in our Development Seminar series.

March 11, 2008. Ted Miguel (Berkeley University) presents the paper "The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta" (joint with Ch. Hsieh, D. Ortega and F. Rodríguez) in our Development Seminar series.

January 31, 2008. Marta Reynal-Querol presents a Plenary Session in the Global Development Network Conference of 2008 (Security for Development: Confronting Threats to Security and Safety). Brisbane (Australia).

December 14, 2007. Barcelona DRG research affiliates Jan Eeckhout and Marta Reynal-Querol selected for the ERC Starting Grant.

December 13, 2007. Michael Kremer (Harvard University) presents the paper "Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Institutions" (joint with J. Leino, E. Miguel and A. P. Zwane) in our Development Seminar series.

May 2007. Martin Ravallion (Director of the Development Economic Research Group of the World Bank) visits UPF and teaches Lectures in the Quantitative Analysis of Poverty and Inequality in the Graduate program.

March 15-22, 2007. Jose G. Montalvo participates in the piloting of the new survey and the experiments for the second round of the Ethipian Health Workers Cohort Study.

January 22, 2007. Jose G. Montalvo organized the international conference "The scientific analysis of development projects and foreign aid" in the BBVA Foundation (Madrid).