ECONOMICS 271

Planning and Development Seminar
Spring 2007
Instructor: Professor Edward Miguel
E-mail:
Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans
Schedule: Monday, 4:00 pm
January 22 No meeting
 
January 29
No meeting
 
February 5
Not scheduled
 
February 12 Stergios Skaperdas , UC Irvine
  Economics and Conflict: The Dark Side of Self-interest and Its Governance as Economic Activities
February 19 No meeting
 
February 26 Pascaline Dupas , Dartmouth College
  Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya
February 27
Tuesday
Nava Ashraf , Harvard Business School
(joint with Psychology and Economics)
  "Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia"
March 5 Abhijit Banerjee , M.I.T.
  Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
with Rohini Pande
March 12 Hyeok Jeong , University of Southern California
  Sources of TFP Growth: Occupational Choice and Financial Deepening
March 19 Andrew Foster , Brown University
  Inequality and Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth: Groundwater and the Green Revolution in Rural India
March 26 No meeting Spring Break
 
April 2 Eric Edmonds , Dartmouth University
Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
 
April 9 Robert Townsend , University of Chicago
  Firm Dynamics and Finance: Distinguishing Information Regimes
April 16 Richard Akresh , University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
  School Enrollment Impacts of Non-Traditional Household Structure
April 23 Christina Paxson , Princeton University
  Does Money Matter? The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Health and Development in Rural Ecuador
April 30 Paul Gertler , UCB
  TBA
May 3 Imran Rasul , University College London
  TBA
May 7 Grant Miller , Stanford Unversity
  TBA


 
 
 
 
 

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