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Economics 750b
Development Workshop
Organized by: Mark Rosenzweig, Christopher Udry, Dean Karlan,
Mushfiq Mobarak
Faculty Contacts for 2007-2008 Seminar Series: Mark
Rosenzweig and Mushfiq Mobarak
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.
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| Spring 2008 |
Mondays,
3:305:00 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| March 3 |
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
(Economics), "Middlemen Margins and
Globalization" |
| March 24 |
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University
(Economics), "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad
Geography in Africa" |
| March 31 |
Dean Yang, University of Michigan
(Economics), "Insurance, Credit, and Technology
Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi" |
| April 7 |
John Giles, Michigan State
University (Economics), "Migrant Labor Markets
and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China" |
| April 14 |
Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley (ARE),
"The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay" |
| April 21 |
Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy
School of Government, "The Great Discrimination: Borders as a Labor Market
Barrier" |
| April 28 |
Aprajit Mahajan,
Stanford University (Economics) |
| May 5 |
Manuela Angelucci, Yale University
(Economics), "Insurance and Family Networks," Meet the Speaker. |
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