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Economics 750b
Development Workshop

Organized by: Mark Rosenzweig, Christopher Udry, Dean Karlan, Mushfiq Mobarak, David Atkin, Nancy Qian

Faculty Contact for 2011–2012 Seminar Series:, Mark Rosenzweig, Chris Udry

This workshop is designed as a forum for graduate students and faculty with an interest in economic problems of developing countries. Faculty, students, and a limited number of outside speakers will discuss research work in progress. Student participants will be encouraged to develop and present a workshop paper in each term. The scope of topics includes:  agricultural and rural development, industrial development, human capital investment, employment, entrepreneurship, risk consequences, incomplete markets, poverty and income distribution, structural transformation and the interaction of international trade and development.

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 beneath the bulletin board on the second floor of the EGC at 27 Hillhouse Ave.

Spring 2012

Mondays, 4:00-5:30 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106

February 20

Michael Carter, University of California-Davis. "Poverty and Land Redistribution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" (with Malcolm Keswell)

February 27

Berk Ozler, World Bank, "Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover and Threshold Effects"

March 19 

Antoinette Schoar, MIT, "Small Business Contracting: Ex Post (in)efficient Negotiation and Breakdown of Trade" (with Rajkamal Iyer)

March 26

Duncan Thomas, Duke University, The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami"

April 2

Erica Field, Duke University, "Debt Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Risk: Evidence from Microfinance" (with Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol) 

April 9

Tom Vogl, Princeton University, "Sisters, Schooling, and Spousal Search: Evidence from South Asia"   

April 16

Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale School of Management, "Does Demand or Supply Constrain Investments in Education? Evidence from Garment Sector Jobs in Bangladesh" (with Rachel Heath)

April 23

Robin Burgess, London School of Economics, "Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?" (with Oriana Bandiera, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman)  

April 30

Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, "Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with West Bengal Potato Farmers" (with Sandip Mitra, Maximo Torero, and Sujata Visaria) 

May 7

Dan Keniston, Yale University, "Crime, Punishment, and Monitoring: Deterring Drunken Driving in India"

Past Workshops        Development Lunch

Schedule maintained by Lindsay DeFilippo (203-432-3621)

Last updated: May 04, 2012