ECONOMICS 271

Planning and Development Seminar
Fall 2003
Instructor: Professor Pranab Bardhan
Office hours: Tuesday, 10-11:30 in 625 Evans
E-mail: bardhan@econ.berkeley.edu
Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans
Schedule: Monday, 4-6 pm
                   

August 25 José Signoret , UCB
  "Consumption, Nutrition and Poverty Dynamics in Moldova"
Week of Sept.8 Same as departmental seminar
 
September 15 David Levine , UCB
  "is Industrialization = Development? The Effects of Industrialization on School Enrollment and Youth Employment in Indonesia"
September 24
Wednesday
Tim Besley , London School of Economics
"Comptetition and Incentives with Motivated Agents (joint with departmental)
September 29 Ted Miguel , UCB
  Networks, Social Learning and Technology Adoption: The Case of Deworming Drugs in Kenya
October 6 Ekaterina Zhuravskaya , Center for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow
  "Decentralization and Poltical Institutions" (Joint with the Transition Seminar)
October 13 Elena Duggar , UCB
  "Corruption, Culture and Organizational Form"
Week of October 20 Same as departmental seminar ,
 
Week of October 27 Same as departmental seminar
   
November 3 Eric Verhoogen , UCB
  "Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector"
November 10 Trevon Logan, UCB, "The Transformation of Hunger: Nutritional Well-Being and the Evolving Demand for Calories" and Tsung-Tao Yang,UCB,Cleavage Patterns and Social Conflict
 
November 20
Thursday, 2-4 pm
in 608-7 Evans
Imran Rasul , Graduate School of Business, Chicago
  "Worker Productivity under Absolute and Relative Incentives: New Empirical Evidence" (joint with Labor Seminar)
November 24 Clive Bell , University of Heidelberg and World Bank
  The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and Application to South Africa

(shorter less technical paper)Thinking about the Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS

Week of December 1 Same as the departmental seminar

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