"Keep your friends close, and even closer in a crisis: Strategic favoritism during economic shocks"

Speaker:

Jose Morales-Arilla, Graduate Student Associate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact:

Abigail Powers
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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"Worth Your Weight? Experimental evidence on the benefits of obesity in low-income countries?"

Speaker:

Elisa Macchi, PhD Candidate in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Zurich.

Contact:

Abigail Powers
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises" 

Speaker:

Cesi Cruz, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia.

Contact:

Abigail Powers
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"International Friends and Enemies" 

Speaker:

Ernest Liu, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University. 

Contact:

Abigail Powers
abigailpowers@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Evidence From Bangladesh"

Speaker:

Kate Orkin, Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of African Economics, Oxford University.

Contact:

Abigail Powers
abigailpowers@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"When is Debt Odious? A Theory of Repression and Growth Traps"

Speaker:

Raghu Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"When Women March: The 1929 Aba Women’s Tax Revolt, and Gender Gaps in Political Participation in Nigeria"

Speaker:

Belinda Archibong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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“Stretching Vaccines: Optimal Vaccine Use in a Pandemic”

Speakers:

Michael Kremer, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.

Chris Snyder, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"The Role of Finance in the Process of Development: Improving Access versus Reducing Frictions"

Speaker:

Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture"

Speaker:

Elisabeth Sadoulet, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"The Psychosocial Impacts of Forced Idleness"

Speaker:

Reshmaan Hussam, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"UBI study in Kenya"

Speaker:

Tavneet Suri, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"Does identity reduce labor supply?"

Speaker:

Suanna Oh, Assistant Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company"

Speaker:

Diana van Patten, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (spring 2021). Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Management, Yale University.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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"Scaling Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda"

Speaker:

Lauren Bergquist, Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics Department, University of Michigan.

Contact:

Michael O'Neil
michael_oneil@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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