| Spring 2008 |
|
| March 6 |
Gharad Bryan, "The Implications of Limited Commitment for Tests of Network Risk Sharing" |
| March 27 |
Santosh Anagol, "Adverse Selection in Rural Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence from Livestock
Trading in India" |
| April 3 |
Federico Gutierrez, "Impact of Argentina's 'Plan Jefes' on Teen's School Attendance" |
| April 10 |
Rachel Heath,
"Interlinked Contracts and Market Power: an Exploration of Aquaculture in
Bangladesh" |
| April 17 |
Reena Badiani, "Rural Non-Farm Growth in India: Who Gets the Non-Farm
Jobs?" |
| April 24 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, "Congestion at Health Facilities and the Adoption of New Malaria Therapy" |
| May 8 |
Pinar Keskin,
"Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers: Water as a New Link between Agriculture and
Industry?" |
| May 15 |
Mir Salim,
"Microfinance Institutions" |
| 2007 |
|
| February 22 |
Dean Karlan, Yale University,
"Measurement Effects" |
| March 1 |
Madiha Afzal, Yale University,
"Are Politicians Rewarded for Luck?" |
| March 8 |
James Fenske, Yale University,
"Land and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Benin" |
| March 29 |
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University,
"Private Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in China" |
| April 5 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University,
"Child Labor and Household Health Shocks" |
| April 26 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale
University, "The Long Run Effects of Expanded Access to Formal Finance: Evidence from
Rural India" |
| May 3 |
Mir Salim, Yale University,
"Microfinance Institutions" |
| May 10 |
Prashant Bharadwaj, Yale University,
"Impacts of Sterilizations" |
| September 6 |
Santosh Anagol, "Adverse
Selection in Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence from Dairying in Rural India" |
| September 20 |
Shing-Yi Wang, "Liquidity
Constraints, Mobility and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Housing Reform in China" |
| September 27 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, "The
Long-Run Effects of Expanded Access to Formal Banking Institutions: Evidence from Rural
India" |
| October 18 |
Daniel Rosenblum, "Fertility
Decisions and Child Investment: Consequences for Gender Differences in
Child Mortality in India" |
| October 25 |
Gharad Bryan, "Information or
Intimidation: How Does 'Social Capital' Improve Loan Repayment?"
Federico Gutierrez, "Water Quality and Welfare in Mexico" |
| November 1 |
Reena Badiani, "Coping with Risk: Temporary Migration and Off-Farm Labor Responses to
Shocks" |
| November 8 |
Anna Paulson (Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago), "Bank Crises and Investor Confidence: Learning from the Experience of
U.S. Immigrants" (with Una Osili) Click here for
tables. |
| November 15 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, "The Impacts
of Adult Deaths on the Elderly in Tanzania" |
| December 6 |
Rachel Heath, "Decentralization
and Collective Action: the Case of Nicaragua's Autonomous Public Schools" |
| December 13 |
Santosh Anagol, "Adverse
Selection in Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence from Dairying in Rural India" |
| December 20 |
Pinar Keskin - "Thirsty
Factories, Hungry Farmers? The Indian Experience"
Vis Taraz, "Bargaining Over Fertility" |
| 2006 |
|
| March 23 |
Christopher Ksoll, "Guardian
Families and Orphans, Modeling the Choice of Caretaking" |
| March 30 |
Guy Berger "Determinants of
Food Aid Distribution in Ethiopia" |
| April 6 |
Mark Rosenzweig, "Do
Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and
China's 'One Child' Policy" |
| April 13 |
Douglas Gollin, "Malaria:
Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences" (with Christian Zimmermann, UConn) |
| April 20 |
Pinar Keskin, "Optimal Firm
Ownership Arrangement in a Transition Economy" |
| April 27 |
Daniel Rosenblum, "Micro
Health Insurance and Preventive Health Care in Rural Andhra Pradesh: Research
Possibilities" |
| May 4 |
Amit Khandelwal, "The Long
and Short (of) Quality Ladders" |
| May 11 |
Yvonne Jie Chen, "Exchange Rate
Regime and Income in Developing Countries” |
| May 24 |
Tekabe Belay, "Rainfall Shocks,
Child Labor, Schooling and Health in Rural Ethiopia" |
| May 31 |
Jeremy Magruder, "Patrilineal
Networks and Youth Employment in South Africa" |
| June 7 |
James Fenske, "Stepping
Outside the Circle: Land Tenure and Fallowing Investment by Outsiders in Houphouetian Cote
d'Ivoire" |
| June 28 |
Madiha Afzal |
| July 19 |
Guy Berger, "The Determinants
of Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia" |
| July 26 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, "Can
Credit Scoring Alleviate the Problem of Information Assymetry in Microfinance
Institutions? Evidence from the Philippines" |
| August 9 |
Christopher Ksoll, "Orphan
Caregiving and the Extended Family in Northwestern Tanzania" |
| September 6 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale
University, "The Impact of Access to Formal Finance on Human Capital Accumulation:
Evidence from India" |
| September 13 |
Santosh Anagol, Yale University,
"Cow Markets in India" |
| September 21 |
Lori Beaman, Yale University,
"Refugee Resettlement: The Role of Social Networks and Job Information Flows in the
Labor Market" and
Christopher Ksoll, Yale University, "Orphan Caregiving and Family Networks in
Northwestern Tanzania" |
| September 28 |
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University,
"Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South
Africa" |
| October 5 |
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University,
"The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders" |
| October 12 |
Guy Berger, Yale University,
"The 'Compensation Hypothesis' and the Determinants of Food Aid Distribution in Rural
Ethiopia" |
| October 19 |
Ramona Bruhns, Yale University,
"The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya" |
| October 26 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University,
"Does the Demand for Health Care Change in Response to New Therapy? Evidence from
Rural Tanzania" |
| November 2 |
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale University,
"Marriage Partners and Income Risk Diversification under Privatization in China" |
| November 9 |
Pinar Keskin, Yale University,
"Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers: South Indian Experience" |
| November 16 |
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale
University/University of Colorado at Boulder, "Foreign Graduate Students and
Knowledge Creation at U.S. Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations" |
| November 30 |
T. Paul Schultz, Yale University,
"Family Planning as Investment in Female Human Capital: Evaluating the long run
effect in Matlab Bangladesh" |
| December 7 |
Christopher Ksoll, Yale University,
"Family Networks, Orphan Caretaking and Orphan Welfare in Tanzania" |
| December 14 |
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
/ University of Colorado at Boulder, "The Costs of Decentralization: Water Pollution
Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil" |
| 2005 |
|
| Februrary 3 |
Roundtable Discussion, please come
prepared to speak for a few minutes on your research plans for this term |
| February 17 |
Asim Khwaja, "Tracing the
Financial and Real Impact of a Credit Crunch" |
| March 10 |
Guy Berger, "Political Distrust and Trade
Liberalization, One Small Step at a Time" |
| March 17 |
Ruth Uwaifo, "Time Differences
in Returns to Education in Nigeria: Fact of Fantasy?" |
| March 24 |
Imran Rasul and Oriana Bandiera, "Managerial
Incentives in Hierarchies: Evidence From a Firm Level Experiment" |
| March 31 |
Siddharth Sharma, "Structural
Change in India's Labor Force: 1983-2000" |
| April 7 |
Farooq Naseer, "An Exploratory
Look at Cane Market Transactions in Pakistan" |
| April 14 |
Amit Khandelwal, "Agricultural
Subsidies and Base Updating" |
| April 21 |
Jeremy Magruder, "Marital
Shopping and Epidemic AIDS" |
| April 28 |
Madiha Afzal, "Restricted
Candidacy and Political Competition: Evidence from a Policy Change in the Minimum
Education Requirement for Legislators in Pakistan" |
| May 5 |
Lori Beaman, "Ethnic Networks
among Refugees Resettled in the US: The Good and the Bad?" |
| May 12 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, TBA and
Rachel Beattie, TBA |
| May 19 |
Chris Ksoll, "Female Orphans on
the Marriage Market" |
| May 26 |
Pedro Vicente, "Does Oil
Corrupt? Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa" |
| June 1 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, "The Impact
of AIDS Treatment on Socio-Economic Outcomes:
Preliminary Evidence from Kenya" |
| June 15 |
Steven Nafziger, "Factor Market
Interactions in Fin de Siecle Russia" |
| June 29 |
Amalavoyal Chari |
| July 20 |
Chris Ksoll |
| July 27 |
Masahiro Endoh, "Cross-Border Political
Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs" |
| August 4 |
Amit Khandelwal, "Product Quality and
Competition in International Trade" |
| August 10 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, "The
Impact of Rural Banks on School Enrollment: Evidence from Indian Bank Reforms" |
| August 23 |
Farooq Naseer, TBA |
| August 31 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, "The impact
of AIDS treatment on household welfare" |
| September 1 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, Yale University,
"The impact of AIDS treatment on household welfare" |
| September 8 |
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University,
"Marital Shopping and Epidemic AIDS" |
| September 15 |
Siddharth Sharma, Yale University,
"Industrial Growth in Rural India: Why has initial agricultural yield mattered?" |
| September 29 |
Guy Berger, Yale University,
"The Effects of Food Aid on Ethiopian Local Grain Markets" |
| October 6 |
Chris Udry, Yale University,
"Institutions and Development: A View from Below" |
| October 13 |
Petia Topalova, Yale University,
"Trade Liberalization, Child Labor and Schooling: Evidence from India" |
| October 20 |
Dean Karlan, Yale University,
"Group versus Individual Liability" |
| October 27 |
Daniel Rosenblum, Yale University,
"Evaluating Micro Health Insurance and Preventive Health Care in Rural India" |
| November 3 |
Marc Suhrcke, World Health
Organization, "Health and economic development: a European perspective" |
| November 10 |
May Rostom, McGill University,
"Are educated mothers more likely to vaccinate their children? The effect of
endogenous education on the demand for child vaccines: Evidence from Peru" |
| November 17 |
Santosh Anagol, Yale University,
"Estimating the Returns to Capital" |
| December 1 |
Pinar Keskin, Yale University,
"Ambiguous Property Rights: An Overview" |
| December 8 |
Yoshihisa Godo, Maiji Gakuin
University, Yale University, "The Role of Education in the Economic Catch-Up:
Comparative Growth Experience from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States" |
| December 15 |
Yvonne Chen, Yale University,
"Open Trade and Poverty Reduction" |
| 2004 |
|
| June 7 |
Informal Discussion, Summer Series Planning |
| June 14 |
Farooq Naseer |
| June 21 |
Shareen Joshi |
| July 12 |
Siddharth Sharma, "Patterns of
Industrialization in Rural India" |
| July 19 |
Patrick Bayer |
| August 2 |
Hanming Fang |
| August 9 |
Tatiane DeMenezes |
| August 23 |
Xia Li |
| August 30 |
Caterina Calsamiglia,
"Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity with Endogenous Effort" |
| September 16 |
Dean Karlan, "Observing
Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets" |
| September 30 |
Siddharth Sharma,
"Industrialization in Rural India: Have Agricultural Conditions Mattered?" |
| October 7 |
Firman Witoelar, "The
Determinants of Household Division: Some Evidence from the Indonesia |
| October 14 |
Jeremy Magruder, "Fidelity and
Punishment in an AIDS-pandemic Environment" |
| October 21 |
Erica Field, "Welfare
Consequences of Early Marriage for Women in Bangladesh" |
| October 28 |
Irene Brambilla, "Farm
Productivity and Crop Choice: Evidence From Cotton Marketing |
| November 4 |
Amit Khandelwal, "Estimating
the Impact of U.S. Subsidies on Cotton Production and Prices" |
| November 11 |
Madiha Afzal, "Does the
Education of Legislators Matter? |
| November 18 |
Lori Beaman, "The Role of Price
Variability in Consumption Seasonality: Evidence from Mali" |
| December 2 |
Amalavoyal Chari, "Dynamic
Incentives and Commitment in Joint Liability Lending" |
| December 9 |
Rachel Beattie, "Temporary
Rural Migration in Cochabamba, Bolivia" |
| December 16 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, "Increased
Access to Credit and School Enrollments in India: Is There a Link?" |
| 2003 |
|
| February 18 |
Richard Akresh, "Child
Fostering in Burkina Faso" |
| February 25 |
Renzo Comolli, "Gay and Lesbian
Income Gap" |
| March 4 |
Christopher Timmins,
"Identifying Spatial Differences in the Brazilian Cost-of-Living with Household
Location Choices" |
| March 18 |
Matthias Schuendeln, "Firm
Dynamics in the Presence of Credit Constraints" |
| March 25 |
T. Paul Schultz, "The Causes
and Consequences of Fertility Decline: Can We Learn from Kenya's Experience?" |
| April 1 |
Muhammad Farooq Naseer, "The
Political Economy of Social Spending in Pakistan" |
| April 8 |
Randi Pintoff (Lab/Pub), "What
I Learned in Prison Today: Social Learning, Peer Effects, and Specialization in Juvenile
Corrections" |
| April 15 |
William Bunting, "Gaming the
Legal System with an Application to the Necessity Defense" |
| April 22 |
Tavneet Suri, "Testing for
Consumption Insurance and the Identification of Risk-Sharing Groups" |
| June 9 |
Harounan Kazianga, "Transfer in
Burkina Faso" |
| June 23 |
Matthias Schuendeln,
"Manufacturing Firms in Ghana |
| July 14 |
Farooq Naseer |
| July 28 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, "Caste and
Occupational Choice in India" |
| August 11 |
Nistha Sinha and Harounan
Kaziango, "Determinants of Polygyny in Rural Burkina Faso" |
| September 2 |
Matthias Schuendeln,
"Manufacturing Firms in Ghana" |
| September 8 |
Christopher Timmins, "Utility
Metric Measurement of Poverty" |
