Yale Department of Economics

Development Workshop
(Prior to 2007/08, this was called Trade and Development Workshop)

Spring 2008
March 3 Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University (Economics), "Middlemen Margins and Globalization"
March 24 Nathan Nunn, Harvard University (Economics), "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa"
March 31 Dean Yang, University of Michigan (Economics), "Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi"
April 7 John Giles, Michigan State University (Economics), "Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China"
April 14 Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley (ARE), "The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay"
April 21 Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, "The Great Discrimination: Borders as a Labor Market Barrier"
April 28 Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University (Economics)
May 5 Manuela Angelucci, Yale University (Economics), "Insurance and Family Networks,"
2007
March 5 Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley, "Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement"
April 2 Erica Field, Harvard University, "Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania"
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 and Bilal Zia)
April 16 Stefan Klonner, Cornell University, “Cosigners Help”
April 23 Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE, "The de Soto Effect: Markets, Networks and the Political Economy of Property Rights"
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"
September 17 Michael Kremer, Harvard University, "Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya"
September 24 Christopher Udry, Yale University, "The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana"
October 1 Stephen Klasen, University of Göttingen, "Geography Versus Institutions at the Village Level"
October 8 Nava Ashraf, Harvard Business School, "Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia"
October 15 Michele Tertilt, Stanford University, "Women's Liberation — What was in it for Men?"
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"
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?"
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"
April 3 Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University, "General Education versus Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition"
April 10 Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University, "The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks"
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"
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"
September 11 A. Mushfiq Mobarak, University of Colorado at Boulder, visiting Yale, "Protection for Sale to Firms: Evidence from Indonesia"
September 18 Pascaline Dupas, Dartmouth College, "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya"
September 25 (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"
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"
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"
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"
March 21 Jenny 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 Tim Besley and Biju 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"
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?"
September 19 Xavier Gine, 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 and Hale 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"
November 7 Alan de Brauw, Williams College, "Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China"
November 14 Garth Frazer, Univ. of Toronto, "Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act"
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"
December 12 Jaymin Lee, Yale University, Yonsei University, "Empirical Test of Industrial Targeting"
2004  
February 16 Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, Kuznet Lecture Series
February 23 Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Inequality, Growth and Trade Policy," Kuznet Lecture Series
March 1 Chris Udry, Yale, "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in China"
March 5-19 Spring Break
March 22 Ann Harrison, UC-Berkeley, "The Nike Effect: Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia"
March 29 Imran Rasul, Graduate School of Business, Chicago University, "Relative and Absolute Incentives: Evidence on Worker Productivity"
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"
April 19 Somik Lall, World Bank, CANCELLED
April 30 Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes:  Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention"  Joint with Labor and Population Workshop
May 3 Steven Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania, "Mergers and the Composition of International Commerce"
September 13 Christopher Udry, Yale University, "Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural Burkina Faso"
September 20 Pierre-Andre Chiappori, University of Chicago, "Targeting from a collective perspective: theory and
identification
"
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"
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 Michele 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"
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"
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"