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"
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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" |
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