Yale Department of Economics

Development Lunch

Organized by: Christopher Udry

The Development Lunch (officially "Economics 756: Prospectus Workshop in Development") is an informal workshop designed primarily for graduate students working in development economics to present research in progress.  Faculty and visitors also use the workshop to present work in its early stages.

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Fall 2009 Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, 28 Hillhouse Ave., Room B8
September 10 Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, "Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Crop Insurance Contracts: Design of a Field Experiment"
September 24 Alwyn Young, London School of Economics, "The African Growth Miracle"
October 1 Reena Badiani, "Factories and Farms: How does economic growth impact rural educational investment?"
October 8 Muneeza Alam, "Intra-household allocation of Human Resource Investment in Albania"
October 15 James Fenske, "Does land abundance explain African institutions?"
October 22 Mir Salim, "Revealed Objective Functions of Microfinance Institutions"
October 29 Melanie Morten, "Informal Risk Sharing Networks and Migration"
November 5 Camilo Dominguez, "Expectations About Returns to Education"
November 12 Treb Allen, "Optimal (Partial) Group Liability in Microfinance Lending"
November 19 Muthoni Ngatia, "Social Interactions and Individual Decision Making”
November 26 FALL BREAK
December 3  
December 10 Anant Nyshadham, "The Effects of Healthcare Choice on Health Outcomes"

Past Lunches        Development Workshop

Schedule maintained by Sara Lowes

Last updated: November 05, 2009