Yale Department of Economics

Economics 749a
Development Workshop

Organized by: Mark Rosenzweig, Christopher Udry, Dean Karlan, Mushfiq Mobarak

Faculty Contacts for 2008–2009 Seminar Series: Dean Karlan

This workshop is designed as a forum for graduate students, faculty and outside speakers with research-in-progress on the economics of development.  The scope of topics includes the behavior of individuals, households and firms in developing countries, agricultural and rural development, and both macro-economic and micro-economic aspects of the development process.

Graduate students who anticipate or are currently doing dissertation research in these or related areas are invited to attend the Workshop, to register for credit as appropriate and to arrange to make a presentation of their prospectus and/or work-in-progress.  They should also check out the Development Lunch.

You can join the Development Mailing List if you want to receive announcements about the Development Workshop.  Papers will be available in Room 29, 27 Hillhouse Ave.
 

Fall 2008 Mondays, 4:00-5:30 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
September 8  
September 15 Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University) "Incentives to Teach Badly? After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries" 
September 22 Ben Jones (Northwestern University) "The Knowledge Trap: Human capital and Development Reconsidered"
September 29 Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University) "Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie’s Choice in Mao’s Mass Send Down Movement"
October 6 Christopher Blattman (Yale University) "From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda"
October 13 Prashant Bharadwaj (Yale PhD candidate) "Fertility and Rural Labor Market Inefficiencies: Evidence from India"
October 20 Daniel Rosenblum (Yale PhD candidate)
October 27 Pinar Keskin (Yale PhD candidate)
November 3 Ach Adhvaryu (Yale PhD candidate)
November 10 Santosh Anagol (Yale PhD candidate)
November 17 James Levinsohn (University of Michigan, visiting at Yale)
November 24 FALL BREAK
December 1 Laura Schechter (Wisconsin)
December 8 TBA
December 15 TBA
Spring 2009 Mondays, 4:00-5:30 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
February 16  
February 23 Taryn Dinkelman (Princeton)
March 2  Leigh Linden (Columbia University)
March 9,16 Spring Recess
March 23  
March 30  
April 6  
April 13  
April 20  
April 27 Last Day of Classes
   
   
   
   
   
   

Past Workshops        Development Lunch

Schedule maintained by Dawn Teele (432-3620)

Last updated: October 09, 2008