Economics 271, Spring 2006

ECONOMICS 271

Development Economics Seminar
Spring 2006
Instructor: Professor Edward Miguel
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Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans
Schedule: Monday, 4-5:30 pm
January 23 No Meeting
 
January 31
Tuesday 12:30
Paul Gertler , UC Berkeley and World Bank
  "Housing, Health and Happiness"
February 6 Rohini Pande , Yale University
  Dams
February 13 Albert Park , Michigan
  "Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation in China"
February 20
  Rescheduled
February 22
Wednesday
4 pm
Francois Bourguignon ,World Bank
  TBA
(Joint with Department Seminar)
February 27 Stefan Klonner , Cornell
  Adverse Selection in Credit Markets: Evidence from South Indian Bidding Roscas
March 6 Rema Hanna ,NYU
  Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
March 13 Grant MillerCANCELLED , Stanford
  Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colubia
March 20 Jean-Marie Baland , Namur
  Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
March 22
Wednesday
4 pm
Chang-Tai Hsieh , UC Berkeley
  TBA
(Joint with Department Seminar)
March 27 No Meeting Spring Break
 
April 3 Irene Brambilla , Yale
  Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia
April 5
Wednesday
4 pm
Bill Easterly , NYU
  TBA
(Joint with Department Seminar)
April 10 Arvind Subramanian , IMF
  What Undermines Aid's Impact on growth"
April 17 Jeremy Weinstein , Stanford
  "Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach"
April 24 Alessandro Tarozzi Changed 4/21 , Duke University
  Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties
May 1 Esther Duflo , MIT
  "Why don't farmers use fertilizer: Evidence from field experiments in Western Kenya"
May 8 Dean Karlan Yale
  Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
 

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