| 2011 |
|
| February 7 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale, "Human Capital Investment and the Gender
Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy" (with Mark Pitt and Nazmul Hassan) |
| February 14 |
Nancy Qian, Yale, "The Impact of Limited Democracy in Rural
China" (with Monica Martinez-Bravoy, Gerard Padró-i-Miquelz, and Yang Yao) |
| February 21 |
Eric Weese, Yale, "Inefficient
Boundaries" |
| February 23 |
Debraj Ray, New York University, "Poverty and Self-Control" (joint with
Micro Theory) |
| February 28 |
Christopher Udry, Yale, "Examining
Underinvestment and Financial Markets in Agriculture" |
| March 21 |
Edward Miguel, Berkeley, "Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child
Health Gains" (with Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, and Michael Kremer) |
| March 28 |
David McKenzie, World Bank, "Does Management Matter? Evidence from
India" (with Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, and John Roberts) |
| April 4 |
Karla Hoff, World Bank, "The Role of Cognitive Frames in Societal
Rigidity and Change" (with Joseph Stiglitz) and "Names Can Hurt You (by Cueing your Response
to Incentives): Experimental Evidence on Identity and Development" [Tables here] (with Priyanka Pandey) |
| April 11 |
Seema Jayachandran, Stanford, "The Price Effects of Cash Versus
In-Kind Transfers" (with Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi) |
| April 18 |
Rebecca Thornton, University of Michigan,
"Circumcision, Information, and
HIV Prevention" (with Susan Godlonton and Alister Munthali) |
| April 25 |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago,
"The Life-Cycle of Manufacturing Plants in India and Mexico" (with Pete Klenow) |
| May 2 |
Imran Rasul, University College of London,
"The Making of Modern America:
Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration" (with Oriana Bandiera and Martina
Viarengo) |
| September 12 |
Rohini Pande, Harvard, "Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices?
Experimental Evidence from Urban India" (with Abhijit Banerjee, Selvan Kumar and
Felix Su) |
| September 19 |
No Workshop, Growth Week |
| September 26 |
James Choy, Yale, "Group Size and
Cooperation: Theory and Evidence from Nepal" |
| October 3 |
Shing-Yi Wang, New York University, "Marriage Networks, Nepotism and Labor Market
Outcomes in China" |
| October 10 |
Paco Buera, UCLA, "The Macroeconomics of Microfinance"
(with J. Kaboski and Y. Shin) |
| October 17 |
Anant Nyshadham, Yale, "Learning about
Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand" |
| October 24 |
Muthoni Ngatia, Yale, "Social
Interactions and Individual Reproductive Decisions" |
| October 31 |
Treb Allen, Yale, "Information Frictions in Trade" |
| November 7 |
Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD, "School Inputs, Household Substitution
and Test Scores" (with J. Das, S. Dercon, J. Habyarimana, P. Krishnan, V.
Sundararaman) |
| November 14 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale, "Are Indian Farms Too Small?
Mechanization, Agency Costs, and Farm Efficiency" |
| November 21 |
Nava Ashraf, Harvard, "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment
on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks" (with Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack) |
| November 28 |
Ben Jones, Kellogg School of Management,
"The Human Capital Stock: A
Generalized Approach" |
| December 5 |
Sendhill Mullainathan, Harvard, "Self-Control at Work" (with
Supreet Kaur and Michael Kremer). |
| 2010 |
|
| February 22 |
Keijiro Otsuka, Visiting Yale,
"Cluster-Based Industrial Development" |
| March 1 |
Jeanne Lafortune, University of Maryland,
"Smooth(er) Landing? The
Dynamic Role of Networks in the Location and Occupational Choice of Immigrants"
(with José Tessada) |
| March 3 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection
in Modern India" (with Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune) Joint
with Microeconomic Theory
Workshop |
| March 22 |
Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins, "Changing Households' Investments and
Aspirations through Social Interactions: Evidence from a Randomized Transfer Program"
(with Renos Vakis) |
| March 29 |
Grant Miller, Stanford, “The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and
Russia’s Mortality Crisis” (with Christina Gathmann) |
| April 5 |
Xavier Giné, The World Bank, "Forecasting When it Matters: Evidence from
Semi-Arid India" (with Robert Townsend and James Vickery) |
| April 12 |
Raymond Fisman, Columbia, "Corruption in State Asset Sales –
Evidence from China" (with Yongxiang Wang) |
| April 19 |
Robert Jensen, UCLA, "Economic Opportunities and Gender
Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India" |
| April 26 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory
and Experimental Evidence from Kenya" (with Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson) |
| May 3 |
Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz, "The Return to Capital for Small Retailers
in Kenya: Evidence from Inventories" (with Michael Kremer, Olga Rostapshova, Jean
Lee) |
| September 6 |
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University, "Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of
U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia" (with Oeindrila Dube) |
| September 13 |
Jeremy Magruder, University
of California, Berkeley, "High Unemployment Yet
Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa" |
| September 20 |
IGC Growth Conference — No Workshop |
| September 27 |
Claudio Ferraz, Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), "Does Oil Make Leaders Unaccountable? Evidence
from Brazil's Offshore Oil Boom" |
| October 11 |
Rachel Heath, Yale University, "Why Do
Firms Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories" |
| October 18 |
Federico Gutierrez, Yale University, "Implicit Contracts, Occupational Choice
and the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico" |
| October 25 |
Gharad Bryan, Yale University, "Ambiguity and Insurance" |
| November 1 |
Priscila Souza, Yale University,
"Moral Hazard in the Family" |
| November 8 |
Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton University,
"Investing in (Secondary) Schooling in Chile" |
| November 15 |
Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University,
"The Value of Relationships:
Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenya Flower Exporters" (with Ameet Morjaria) |
| November 29 |
Gustavo Bobonis, University of Toronto,
"Does Exposing Corrupt Politicians
Reduce Corruption?" (with Luis R. Cámara Fuertes and Rainer Schwabe) |
| December 6 |
Ingvild Almĺs, Norges Handelshřyskole
(NHH) Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, "International Income Inequality: Measuring
PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curve for Food" |
| 2009 |
|
| February 16 |
Frederico Finan, UCLA, "Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of
Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance" (with Claudio Ferraz) |
| February 23 |
Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton, "The Effects of Rural Electrification on
Employment: New Evidence from South Africa" |
| March 2 |
Leigh Linden, Columbia University, "The Effect of Proximity on School
Enrollment: Evidence form an RCT in Afghanistan" (with Dana Burde) |
| March 23 |
Pascaline Dupas, UCLA, "Savings Constraints and Microenterprises
Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya" (with Jonathan Robinson) |
| March 30 |
William Easterly, NYU, "The European
Origins of Economic Development" CANCELLED |
| April 6 |
Jenny Aker, Tufts University and the Center
for Global Development, "Cell Phones,
Search Costs and Grain Markets" |
| April 16 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES. Oded Galor, Brown
University, "Comparative Development: Insight from Unified Growth Theory" |
| April 20 |
Asim Khwaja, KSG, Harvard, "Report Cards: The Impact of Providing
School and Child Test-scores on Educational Markets" (with Tahir Andrabi and
Jishnu Das) |
| April 27 |
Reena Badiani, Yale University,
“Agrarian Wage and Labor Supply Responses to Rural Industrial Growth" |
| September 14 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, visiting Yale,
"The Shape of Temptations: Implication for the
Economic Lives of the Poor" |
| October 5 |
Bill Easterly, NYU, "European Origins
of Economic Development" (with Ross Levin) |
| October 12 |
Karna Basu, University of Chicago, "Renegotiating with One's Self" |
| October 19 |
Stefan Klonner, Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University, Frankfurt, "Financial Fragmentation in
South India" (with Ashok Rai). |
| October 26 |
Nancy Qian, Yale University, "The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of U.S. Government Bias
on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights Abuses" |
| November 2 |
Reena Badiani, Yale, job market PhD, "Factories and Farms: How Does Economic
Growth Impact Rural Educational Investment?" |
| November 9 |
Mir Salim, Yale, job market PhD,
"Revealed Objective Functions of Microfinance Institutions". |
| November 16 |
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale, "Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the
Geologic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil" |
| November 30 |
Rohini Pande, Harvard University, "Building Social Capital through Microfinance" |
| December 7 |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale, "Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms'
Employment Responses to Shocks in India" |
| December 14 |
M. Ali Khan, John Hopkins University,
"On the Mitra-Wan Forestry Model: A Unified Analysis"
(with Adriana Piazza). |
| 2008 |
|
| March 3 |
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, "Middlemen Margins and Globalization"
(with Pranab Bardhan and Masatoshi Tsumagari) |
| March 24 |
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in
Africa" (with Diego Puga) |
| March 31 |
Dean Yang, University of Michigan, "Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption:
Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi" (with Xavier Giné) |
| April 7 |
John Giles, Michigan State University,
"Migrant Labor Markets and the
Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China" (with
Alan de Brauw) |
| April 14 |
Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley, "The Value of Social Networks in Rural
Paraguay" (with Laura Schechter) |
| April 21 |
Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School of
Government, "The Great Discrimination: Borders as a Labor Market Barrier" |
| April 28 |
Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University, TBA |
| May 5 |
Manuela Angelucci, Yale University, "Insurance and Family Networks"
(with Giacomo De Giorgi, Marcos A. Rangel and Imran Rasul) |
| September 15 |
Seema Jayachandran, Stanford
University,"Incentives to
Teach Badly? After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries" |
| September 22 |
Ben Jones, Northwestern University, "The Knowledge Trap: Human capital and
Development Reconsidered" |
| September 29 |
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, "Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the
Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie’s Choice in Mao’s Mass Send Down Movement"
(with Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang) |
| October 6 |
Christopher Blattman, Yale University,
"From Violence to Voting: War and
Political Participation in Uganda" |
| October 13 |
Prashant Bharadwaj, Yale PhD candidate,
"Fertility and Rural Labor Market Inefficiencies: Evidence from India" |
| October 20 |
Daniel Rosenblum, Yale PhD candidate,
"Fertility and Child Mortality: Unintended Consequences of Family Formation in
India" |
| October 27 |
Pinar Keskin, Yale PhD candidate,
"Thirsty Factories, Hungry Farmers: Intersectoral Impacts of Industrial Water
Demand" |
| November 3 |
Ach Adhvaryu, Yale PhD candidate, "On
the Low Adoption of Effective Technology: Misdiagnosis and Learning about New Malaria
Therapy in Tanzania" |
| November 10 |
Santosh Anagol, Yale PhD candidate,
"Adverse Selection in Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence from the Indian Market for
Cows" |
| November 17 |
James Levinsohn, University of Michigan,
visiting at Yale, "HIV Status and Labor Market
Participation in South Africa" (with Zoë McLaren) |
| December 1 |
Laura Schechter, Wisconsin,
"Vote-buying and Reciprocity" |
| December 8 |
Dr. Quy Toan Do, World Bank, "Are All Siblings Born Equal?" (with
Tung Duc Phung) |
| 2007 |
|
| March 5 |
Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley, "Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of
Source Water Quality Improvement" (with Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino) |
| April 2 |
Erica Field, Harvard University, "Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment
in Tanzania" (with Omar Robles, Maximo Torero) |
| April 9 |
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University, "Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Not a Dime to
Lend: Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity" (with
Atif Mian, Bilal Zia) |
| April 16 |
Stefan Klonner, Cornell University, "Cosigners Help" (with Ashok S. Rai) |
| April 23 |
Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE, "The de Soto Effect: Markets, Networks and
the Political Economy of Property Rights" (with Timothy Besley) |
| April 30 |
Joe Kaboski, Ohio State University, "Testing a Structural Model of Credit
Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimantal Microfinance Initiative" (with
Robert M. Townsend) |
| September 10 |
Pierre Dubois, University of Toulouse,
"Formal and Informal Risk Sharing
in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence" (with Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac) |
| September 17 |
Michael Kremer, Harvard University, "Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and
Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya" (with Esther
Duflo, Pascaline Dupas) |
| September 24 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University, "The Profits of Power: Land Rights and
Agricultural Investment in Ghana" (with Markus Goldstein) |
| October 1 |
Stephen Klasen, University of Göttingen,
"Geography vs. Institutions at the
Village Level" (with Michael Grimm) |
| October 8 |
Nava Ashraf, Harvard Business School,
"Can Higher Prices Stimulate
Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia" (with James Berry) |
| October 15 |
Michele Tertilt, Stanford University,
"Women's Liberation: What was in
it for Men?" (with Matthias Doepke) |
| October 22 |
Siwan Anderson, University of British
Columbia, "Caste as an Impediment
to Trade" |
| October 29 |
Madiha Afzal, Yale Graduate Student, "Voter Rationality and Politician Incentives:
Exploiting Luck in Indian and Pakistani Elections" |
| November 5 |
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale Graduate Student,
"Credit Constraints, Job Mobility and
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China" |
| November 12 |
Frederico Finan, UCLA, "Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local
Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports" (with Claudio Ferraz) |
| November 26 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale Graduate
Student, "Financial Development and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Rural
India" |
| December 10 |
David McKenzie, World Bank "A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets
Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations About Incomes Abroad?"
(with Steven Stillman) |
| 2006 |
|
| February 27 |
Ben Olken, Harvard University, "Monitoring
Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia" |
| March 20 |
KUZNETS LECTURE:
Tim Besley, LSE, "Government and Development" |
| March 27 |
Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad Torcuato
Di Tella, "Property Rights
for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling" (with
Sebastian Galiani) |
| April 3 |
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University,
"General Education versus
Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition" (with Ofer Malamud) |
| April 10 |
Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University, "The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks"
(with Flore Gubert) |
| April 17 |
Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin,
"Theft, Gift-giving, and
Trustworthiness: Honesty is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay" |
| April 24 |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, UC Berkeley,
"Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity in China and India" |
| May 1 |
Jonathan Morduch, New York University,
"Do Interest Rates Matter?
Evidence from the Dhaka Slums" (with Rajeev Dehejia, Heather Montgomery) |
| May 8 |
Orazio Attanasio, University College
London, "Medium and Long Run
Effects of Nutrition and Child Care: Evaluation of a Community Nursery Programme in Rural
Columbia" (with Marcos Vera-Hernández) |
| September 11 |
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, University of Colorado
at Boulder, visiting Yale, "Protection
for Sale to Firms: Evidence from Indonesia" (with Denni Puspa Purbasari) |
| September 18 |
Pascaline Dupas, Dartmouth College, "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex:
Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya" |
| September 25 |
Craig McIntosh, UC San Diego, "Does Better Health Care Lead to Higher
AIDS Rates? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa" |
| October 2 |
Hyeok Jeong, University of Southern
California, "Complementarity and
Transition to Modern Economic Growth" (with Yong Kim) |
| October 9 |
Lori Beaman, Yale University, "Social Networks and the Dynamics of Labor
Market Outcomes: Evidence from Refugee Resettlement" |
| October 16 |
Chris Ksoll, Yale University, "Family
Networks and Orphan Placement in Tanzania" |
| October 23 |
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University, “Intergenerational Networks,
Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa” |
| October 30 |
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Incomplete Contracts and Holdup: Land
Tenancy and Investment in Rural Pakistan" (with Ghazala Mansuri) |
| November 6 |
Rema Hanna, New York University, "Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come
to Class" (with Esther Duflo) |
| November 13 |
Kaivan Munshi, Brown University, "From Farming to International Business: The
Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Developing Economy" |
| November 27 |
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University, “The Long and Short, of) Quality
Ladders” CANCELLED |
| December 4 |
Dalia Marin, University of Munich, visiting
New York University, “Corporate
Hierarchies and the Size of Nations Theory and Evidence” (with Thierry Verdier),
CANCELLED |
| December 11 |
Malgosia Madajewicz, Columbia University,
"Can Information Alone Change
Behavior? Response to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh" (with
Alexander Pfaff, Alexander van Geen, Joseph Graziano, Iftikhar Hussein, Hasina Momotaj,
Roksana Sylvi, Habibul Ahsan) |
| 2005 |
|
| February 21 |
KUZNETS LECTURE: Robert Townsend,
University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality, and the Evaluation of
Financial Systems" |
| February 28 |
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University, "Volatility and Growth: Implications for
Macropolicy" (with George-Marios Angeletos, Abhijit Banerjee, Kalina Manova) |
| March 21 |
Jean O. Lanjouw, UC Berkeley, "Patents, Price Controls and Access to New
Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry" |
| March 28 |
Rohini Pande, Yale University, "Political Selection and the Quality of
Government: Evidence
from South India" (with Timothy Besley, Vijayendra Rao) |
| April 4 |
Tavneet Suri, Yale University,
"Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption" |
| April 11 |
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, "Growth Diagnostics" |
| April 18 |
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago,
"How Much Does Psychology Matter?
A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market" (with Dean Karlan, Sendhil
Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman) |
| April 25 |
Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley, "The Effect
of Cash Transfers on Long Term Living Standard" |
| September 12 |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University,
"Is Corruption Efficient? Getting a Driving License in India" (Abstract) |
| September 19 |
Xavier Giné, World Bank, "Land Security in Rural Thailand: Evidence
from a Property Rights Reform" |
| September 26 |
Juan Carlos Hallak, Univ. of Michigan,
"Estimating Cross-Country
Differences in Product Quality" (with Peter Schott) |
| October 3 |
Bob Staiger, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison,
"The GATT/WTO as an Incomplete
Contract" (with Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi) |
| October 10 |
Tavneet Suri, Yale University, "Selection and Comparative Advantage in
Technology Adoption" |
| October 17 |
Jim Tybout, Penn State, "Industrial Evolution in Crisis-Prone
Economies" (with Eric Bond, Hâle Utar) |
| October 24 |
Siddharth Sharma, Yale University, "Imperfect Capital Mobility as a Constraint
on Regional Industrial Growth: Evidence from India" |
| October 31 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, Yale University, "The Economic impact of AIDS treatment:
Labor Supply in Western Kenya" (with Joshua Graff Zivin, Markus Goldstein) |
| November 7 |
Alan de Brauw, Williams College, "Migrant Opportunity and the Educational
Attainment of Youth in Rural China" (with John Giles) |
| November 14 |
Garth Frazer, Univ. of Toronto, "Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity
Act" (with Johannes Van Biesebroeck) |
| November 28 |
Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Yale University,
"Whither Quality? Incentives in the
Sugarcane Market in Pakistan" |
| December 5 |
Maurice Kugler, University of Southampton,
"Factor Adjustments after
Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants" (with Marcela Eslava, John
Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler) |
| December 12 |
Jaymin Lee, Yale University, Yonsei
University, "Empirical Test of Industrial Targeting" |
| 2004 |
|
| February 16 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES |
| February 23 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Inequality,
Growth and Trade Policy," KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES |
| March 1 |
Chris Udry, Yale, "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in
Ghana" (with Markus Goldstein) |
| March 22 |
Ann Harrison, UC-Berkeley, "The Nike Effect: Anti-Sweatshop Activists
and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia" (with Jason Scorse) |
| March 29 |
Imran Rasul, Graduate School of Business,
Chicago University, "Relative and
Absolute Incentives: Evidence on Worker Productivity" (with Oriana Bandiera, Iwan
Barankay) |
| April 5 |
Koichi Hamada & Masahiro Endo, Yale,
"The Metzler Paradox and the
Interpretation of GATT Article XXIV" |
| April 12 |
Siwan Anderson, UBC-Vancouver, "Enforcement and Organizational Design in
Informal Saving Groups" (with Jean-Marie Baland, Karl Ove Moene) |
| April 30 |
Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market
Outcomes: Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention"
(with Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jed Friedman, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Nathan Jones, Christopher
McKelvey, Gretel Pelto, Bondan Sikoki, James P. Smith, Cecep Sumantri, Wayan
Suriastini) Joint with Labor
and Population Workshop |
| May 3 |
Steven Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania,
"Mergers and the Composition of
International Commerce" (with Volker Nocke) |
| September 13 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University, "Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural
Burkina Faso" (with Harounan Kazianga) |
| September 20 |
Pierre-Andre Chiappori, University of
Chicago, "Targeting from a
Collective Perspective: Theory and Identification" (with Richard Blundell, Costas
Meghir) |
| September 27 |
Irene Brambilla, Yale University, "Introduction of New Varieties of Goods
in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector" |
| October 4 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, "Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous
Firms" (with Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen Redding) |
| October 18 |
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage
Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: Theory and Evidence from an Exchange-Rate
Shock" |
| October 25 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Long Run Impacts
of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th century France" |
| November 1 |
Jonathan Conning, Hunter College, "On the Causes of Slavery or Serfdom and
the Roads to Agrarian Capitalism: Domar's Hypothesis Revisited" |
| November 8 |
Michčle Tertilt, Stanford University,
"Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings" |
| November 15 |
Rohini Pande, Yale University, "Dams" (with Esther Duflo) |
| November 29 |
Alwyn Young, University of Chicago, "The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS
and the Welfare of Future African Generations" |
| December 6 |
Anne Case, Princeton University, "The Impact of Parental Death on School
Enrollment and Achievement: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa" (with Cally
Ardington) |
| 2003 |
|
| March 3 |
Peter Debaere, University of Texas, "The Real-Side Determinants of Countries' Terms of
Trade" A Panel Data Analysis" |
| March 24 |
Robert F. Owen, University of Nantes and
Visiting Professor at Yale, "Fundamental R&D
Spillovers and the Internationalization of a Firm's Research Activities" (with
Bernard Franck) |
| March 31 |
Eliana La Ferrara, "Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not. Conflict
Diamonds and the Value of Firms" |
| April 7 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Institutional Change and
Economic Growth |
| April 14 |
Atif Mian, University of Chicago, "Incentives, Supervision, and Organizational Hierarchy:
A Loan-Level Investigation of Banking" |
| April 21 |
Alejandro Cunat, London School of
Economics, "Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade"
|
| April 28 |
Richard Akresh, Yale University, "Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child
Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" |
| May 5 |
Lee Branstetter, Columbia University
Business School, "Do Stronger Intellectual
Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from
U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data." |
| May 12 |
Sofronis Clerides, Yale University, "The Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalization: Evidence
from Used Automobiles" |
| September 8 |
Richard Akresh, Yale University, "Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child
Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" |
| September 15 |
Ethan Ligon, Berkeley, "Efficiency Wages for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Consumption
and Nutrition in the Philippines" |
| September 29 |
Angus Deaton, Princeton University, "Measuring Poverty in a Growing World, or Measuring Growth
in a Poor World)" |
| October 13 |
Paul Gertler, Berkeley, "Lost Presents and Presence: How Parental Death Affects
Children" |
| October 20 |
David McKenzie, Stanford University, "Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and
Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" |
| October 27 |
Garance Genicot, Georgetown, "Contracts and
Externalities: How Things Fall Apart" |
| November 3 |
Shareen Joshi, Yale University, "The Incidence, Determinants and Consequences of Female
Headship in Rural Bangladesh" |
| November 10 |
Matthias Schuendeln, Yale University,
"Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Financing
Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms" |
| November 17 |
Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School,
"Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from
Vietnam" |
| December 1 |
Andrew Foster, Brown University, "Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural
Inequality" |
| 2002 |
|
| February 4 |
Devashish Mitra, Florida International
University, "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical
Investigation" |
| February 18 |
Gordon Hanson, University of California at
San Diego, "International Migration, Self-Selection
and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States" |
| February 25 |
Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth
College, "Does Globalization Increase
Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam" |
| March 4 |
Keijiro Otsuka, National Graduate Institute
for Policy Studies, GRIPS), "Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using a
Structural Model of US MNCs" |
| March 25 |
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin,
"Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange Rate
Volatility, and Exchange Rate Disconnect (with Michael B. Devereux) |
| April 1 |
Michael Keane, Yale University, "Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using a
Structural Model of US MNCs", with Susan E. Feinberg, University of Maryland) |
| April 8 |
Bart van Ark, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands, "Capital Formation and Productivity
Growth in South Korea and Taiwan: Beating Diminishing Returns Through Realizing the
Catch-Up Potential" (with Marcel P. Timmer) |
| April 15 |
Shareen Joshi, Yale University, "Human
Capital Investment, Entrepreneurship and Inequality" |
| April 18 |
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University,
"What Explains the Tariff Growth Paradox,
1875-1997?" |
| April 22 |
Kishore Gawande, University of New Mexico,
"PAC Spending Tests of Theories" |
| April 29 |
Steve Redding, London School of Economics,
"Factor Endowments and Production in European
Regions", with Mercedes Vera-Martin, LSE) |
| September 9 |
Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "International Protection of Intellectual Property
Rights" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| September 19 |
Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Exports vs. FDI" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| September 23 |
Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College,
"Vertical
Specialization in Multinational Firms", with Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and
Raymond Mataloni, US Bureau of Economic Analysis) |
| October 7 |
Stefan Klonner, University of Heidelberg,
Visitor, Yale University, "Improving the Performance of Rotating Savings and Credit
Associations: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Indian Chit Funds Act" |
| October 28 |
Wolfgang Keller, Brown University and
University of Texas, "Multinational
Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the United States",
w/ Stephen Yeaple, UPENN) |
| November 4 |
Ashok Rai, Harvard University, Visitor,
Yale University, "Collateral Substitutes in
Microfinance" (with Philip Bond, Northwestern University) |
| November 11 |
Gustav Ranis, Yale University, "Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development
and Economic Growth", with Michael Boozer, Yale University and Frances Stewart,
University of Oxford) |
| November 18* |
Noel Maurer, ITAM, Visitor, Yale
University, "Do Institutions Matter in Extractive
Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1900-1929" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| December 2 |
Edward Miguel, University of
California-Berkeley, Visitor, Princeton University, "Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence
from Kenya" |
| December 9 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, "Survival of the Best Fit: Low Wage Competition and the,
Uneven) Growth of the US Manufacturing Plants" (with Andrew B. Bernard, J.
Bradford Jensen) |
| December 16 |
Stephen Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania,
"International Productivity Differences,
Infrastructure, and Comparative Advantage" (with Stephen Glub, Swarthmore
College) |
| 2001 |
|
| February 23 |
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented
Markets: The Case of Groundwater" (with Rinku Murgai and Saeed Ur Rehman) |
| February 26 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family" |
| March 19 |
Costas Meghir, University College London,
"Changes in the Distribution of Wages Accounting for Changes in Employment" |
| March 26 |
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern
University, "Finanical Market Globalization and Endogenous Inequality of
Nations" |
| April 2 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, "Factor
Price Equality and the Economies of the United States" |
| April 6 |
Robert Townsend, University of Chicago,
"The Nature of Financial Constraints: Distinguishing the Micro Underpinnings of
Macro Models" |
| April 9 |
Romain Wacziarg, Stanford University,
"Stages of Diversification" |
| April 23 |
Garth Frazer, Yale University, "The
Firm and the Family Network: Measuring the Relative Productivity of Relatives" |
| April 30 |
Hiroyuki Chuma, Yale
University/Hitotsubashi University, "Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in
the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm Factors" |
| May 7 |
Rohini Pande, Columbia University, "Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy
Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India" |
| May 14 |
Ashok Guha, JNU/Yale University, "A
Comparative Analysis of FDI in Indian and Chinese Development: The Role of the
Expatriate" |
| September 10 |
Garth Frazer, Yale University,
"Linking Firms and Workers: Controlling for Ability Bias in Returns to
Education" |
| September 24 |
Ana Fernandes, Yale University, "Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity
in Colombian Manufacturing Industries" |
| October 1 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University,
"Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate
Accounts and Consumption Choices" |
| October 8 |
Takashi Kurosaki, Yale
University/Hitotsubashi University, "Effects of Education on Farm and Non-Farm
Productivity in Rural Pakistan" |
| October 15 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Women's Leadership and Policy Decisions: Evidence from a
Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India" |
| October 22 |
Nuno Limao, Columbia University,
"Trade Policy, Cross-Border Externalities and Lobbies: Do Linked Agreements Enforce
More Cooperative Outcomes" |
| October 29-30 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Joel Mokyr, Northwestern
University, "The Industrial Revolution: The Continuing Paradox" |
| November 5 |
Robert Staiger, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, "Shifting Comparative Advantage and
Accession in the WTO" |
| November 12 |
Xavier Gine, Yale University and University
of Chicago, "Access to Capital in Rural Thailand" |
| December 3 |
Ashok Rai, Harvard University, "Grants vs. Subsidies: Designing Development Banks" |
| December 10 |
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics,
"Labor Regulation and Economic Performance in India" |
| 2000 |
|
| January 18 |
Marc Melitz, University of Michigan,
"The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry
Productivity" |
| February 7 |
Bill Ethier, University of Pennsylvania,
"Unilateralism in a Multilateral World" |
| February 14 |
Pravin Krishna, Brown University,
"Reciprocated Unilateralism: A Political Economy Approach" |
| February 28 |
Stergios Skaperdas, University of
California at Irvine, "The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State" |
| March 20 |
Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan,
"Estimating Production Functions Using Intermediate Inputs to Control for
Unobservables" |
| March 27 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, TBA |
| April 7-8 |
REGIONALISM CONFERENCE: "Political and
Economical Aspects of Regional Integration" |
| April 17 |
Anjini Kochar, Stanford University,
"Parental Benefits from Intergenerational Co-Residence: Empirical Evidence from Rural
Pakistan" |
| April 24 |
Student Presentation |
| September 18 |
Kenneth Leonard, Columbia University,
"Health Care in Rural Cameroun: Structural
Estimation of Production in Terms with Unobservable Effort" |
| September 25 |
Douglas Gollin, Williams College/Yale
University, "Farm Work, Home Work and International
Productivity Differences" (with Stephen L. Parente, University of Illinois and
Richard Rogerson, University of Pennsylvania) |
| October 2 |
Ann E. Harrison, Columbia Business School,
"Ownership Versus Environment: Disentangling the
Sources of Public Sector Inefficiency" (with Ann P. Bartel) |
| October 16 |
David McKenzie, Yale University, "Consumption Growth in a Booming Economy: Taiwan 1976-1996" |
| October 24-25 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Stanley Fischer, IMF |
| October 30 |
Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College, "Who Dies? International Trade, Market Structure, and Plant
Closures" (with J. Bradford Jensen, University of Maryland) |
| November 6 |
Peter Drysdale, Australian National
University, "The New Regionalism in East Asia" |
| November 13 |
Michael Kremer, Harvard University, "Child Health and Education: The Primary School Deworming
Project in Kenya" (with Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley) |
| November 27 |
Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts,
"Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State" |
| December 4 |
Anandi Mani, Vanderbilt/Yale University,
"Democracy and Visibility" (with
Sharun W. Mukand, Tufts University) |
| December 11 |
Raymond Fisman, Columbia University, "Does Competition Encourage Cooperation? Evidence from Trade
Credit Relationships" (with Mayank Raturi, Swissre) |
| 1999 |
|
| January 25 |
Nina Pavenik, Princeton University,
"Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean
Plants" Joint with Micro/Strategy Seminar |
| February 15 |
John McLaren, Columbia University, "A
Theory of Insidious Regionalism" |
| February 22 |
Christina Paxson, Princeton University,
"Growth, Demographic Structure and National Saving in Taiwan" |
| March 1 |
James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, "Factor Quality and Comparative Advantage" |
| March 22 |
Shang-Jin Wei, Harvard University,
"Foreign Investors Before and During the Korean Currency Crisis" |
| March 29 |
Gur Ofer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
"Trade, Trade Policy and Foreign Exchange Regime under Transition: Russia and the
Dutch Disease" |
| April 5 |
Andres Velasco, New York University,
"Financial Fragility and the Exchange Rate Regime" |
| April 12 |
Clive Bell, University of Heidelberg,
Germany, "Inequality and Economic Performance in Rural India Since 1955" |
| April 19 |
Pinelopi Goldberg, Russell Sage Foundation
and Princeton University, TBA |
| April 26 |
Koichi Hamada, Yale University,
"Incentive Mechanisms Surrounding International Monetary Institutions" |
| May 3 |
Ernest Aryeetey, University of Ghana, TBA |
| September 13 |
Robert E. Evenson, Yale University,
"Agriculture and Economic Development in the Second Half of the 20th Century" |
| September 20 |
Alwyn Young, University of Chicago,
"Transport, Processing and Information: Value Added and the Circuitous Movement of
Goods" |
| September 27 |
Brian A'Hearn, Franklin and Marshall
College, "Could Southern Italians Cooperate? Banche Popolari in the
Mezzogioriano" Joint with Economic History
Workshop |
| October 4 |
Maitreesh Ghatak, University of Chicago,
"Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an
Application to NGOs" |
| October 11 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Reputation Effects
and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry" |
| October 18 |
Sofia Sheidvasser and Hugo Benitez,
"Yale University, Returns to Education in Russia" |
| October 25 |
Kaivan Munshi, University of Pennsylvania,
"Learning from your Neighbors: Why Do Some Innovations Spread Faster than
Others?" |
| November 1 |
William Collins, Vanderbilt University,
"Race and Home Ownership, 1900-1990" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| November 8 |
Stephen Haber, Stanford University,
"Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Performance: Evidence from
Revolutionary Mexico" Joint with Economic History
Workshop |
| November 15 |
Sherman Robinson, IFPRI, "Reconciling
Household Surveys and National Accounts Data Using Cross-Entropy Estimation" |
| November 29 |
Oded Galor, Browne Hebrew University,
"Population, Technology and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic
Transition and Beyond" |
| 1998 |
|
| January 27 |
Calgar Ozden, Stanford University,
"Efficiency Gains from Multilateral Trade Agreements" |
| February 9 |
Claus Chr. Pörtner, University of
Copenhagen, "Children as Insurance" |
| February 23 |
Xiaokai Yang, Harvard/Monash Universities,
"Empirical Evidence for the Endogenous Growth Generated by Evolution in Division of
Labor" |
| March 2 |
James Robinson, University of Southern
California, "When Is a State Predatory?" |
| March 23 |
Ricardo Paes de Barros, IPEA, Brazil,
"Labor Market Imperfections and the Level of Poverty and Inequality in Latin
America" |
| March 27-28 |
FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF T.N. SRINIVASAN |
March 30-
April 2 |
HENRY L. STIMSON LECTURES: Alexandre
Lamfalussy, University of Louvain, "Globalization and Financial Fragility" |
| April 6 |
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, "Did
Late Nineteenth Century Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate
Industry, 1869-1913" |
| April 13 |
Koichi Hamada, Yale University, IMF,
"Africa and Macroeconomics" |
| April 20 |
Shang-Jin Wei, Kennedy School of
Government, "Harvard University, How Taxing Is Corruption on International
Investors?" |
| April 27 |
Giovanni Maggi, Princeton University,
"Talent, Diversity and International Trade" |
| May 4 |
Dan Trefler, University of Toronto,
"Increasing Returns to Scale and All That: A View from Trade" |
| May 11 |
Wallace Huffman, Iowa State University,
"An Examination of Profit Inefficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana" |
| September 7 |
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University,
"Household Labor Supply, Child Labor and Minimum Wage Legislation" |
| September 14 |
Mark Rosenzweig, University of
Pennsylvania, "Women's Teaching, Home Schooling and Economic Growth" |
| September 21 |
Beata Smarznska, Yale University,
"Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies" |
| September 28 |
Ingrid Henriksen, University of Copenhagen,
"Danish Cooperatives in a Comparative Context" |
| October 5 |
Sanjay DeSilva, Yale University,
"Tenancy Contracts as a Solution to Time Constraints of Skilled Farmers" |
| October 12 |
Vandana Sipahimalani, Yale University,
"Household Educational Expenditure and School Choice in Rural India: An Empirical
Analysis" |
| October 15 |
Yuan Chou, Yale University, "Cheaper
Dis-Inflation: Coordinating Wage Setting through Incentive-Based Worker-Choice Wages" |
| October 19 |
Donald Davis, Harvard University, "In
Search of the Missing Trade: Theory and Evidence from the OECD" |
| October 26 |
Wolfgang Keller, University of Texas,
Austin, "On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation" |
| November 2 |
Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College,
"Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Skill
Differentials?" |
| November 9 |
Jonathan Morduch, Harvard University,
"Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? Evidence from Flagship Programs in
Bangladesh" |
| November 16 |
Maristella Botticini, Boston University,
"Infectious Marriages: Did the Black Death Affect Tuscan Marriage Markets?" |
| November 30 |
Andrew Foster, Brown University,
"Population Growth, Income Growth and Deforestation: Management of Village Land in
India" |
| 1997 |
|
| September 8 |
Nadia Soboleva, Yale University,
"Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Policy: Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the
United States" |
| September 15 |
Jean Lanjouw, Yale University, "The
Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: "Heartless Exploitation of
the Poor and Suffering"?" |
| September 22 |
T. Paul Schultz, Yale University,
"Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How Is It Changing
and Why" |
| September 29 |
Beata Smarzynska, Yale University,
"Gravity Model of International Trade Reconsidered" |
| October 6 |
Andrew Bernard, Yale University, SOM,
"Trends and Transitions in Long-Run Growth" |
| October 13 |
Jonathan Eaton, Boston University,
"Technology and Bilateral Trade" |
| October 20 |
Nader Habibi, Yale University,
"Popular Attitudes Towards Market Institutions in Iran, Turkey and the Former Soviet
Union" |
| October 27 |
Carol Shiue, Yale University, "Grain
Trade and Storage in the Mid-Qing: 1742-1795" Joint with Economic History Workshp |
| October 30-31 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES: Zvi Griliches,
Harvard University, "Productivity Growth: Where Did It Come From? Where Did It
Go?" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| November 3 |
Keijiro Otsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan
University and IFPRI, "Land Tenure and Forest Management in Asia" Joint
with Natural Resources Workshop |
| November 10 |
Kirit Parikh, Indira Ghandi Institute of
Development Research, "Rice Trade Liberalization in India: Accounting for Large
Country Effect in an Applied General Equilibrium Model" |
| November 19 |
Workshop on Governancce Issues in South
Asia
Session 1: India
Session 2: Bangladesh and Pakistan |
| December 1 |
Giovanni Maggi, Princeton University,
"Politically Motivated Trade Agreements" |
| December 8 |
Sofronis K. Clerides, Yale University,
"Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and
Morocco" |
