2020 Nov 30 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in Desired Fertility" Speaker: Nava Ashraf, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Nov 23 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "Cutting out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation" Speaker: Meredith Startz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Nov 16 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "Loan Officer Incentives and Graduation from Microfinance: Evidence from Chile" Speaker: Natalia Rigol, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Nov 09 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "God Insures Those Who Pay? Formal Insurance and Religious Offerings in Ghana" Speaker: Amma Panin, Consultant, World Bank Office of the Chief Economist. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Nov 02 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "Social Exclusion and Social Preferences: Evidence from Colombia's Leper Colony" Speaker: Diego Ramos-Toro, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Oct 26 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC" Speaker: Augustin Bergeron, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Oct 19 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only “Chasing Government Jobs: How Aggregate Labor Supply Responds to Public Sector Hiring Policy in India” Speaker: Kunal Mangal, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Oct 05 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 10:00am to 11:15am Location: Online Only "Lifting Growth Barriers for New Firms: Experimental Evidence with 2 Million Online Businesses" Speaker: Patricia (Zhengyun) Sun, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisogno mbisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Sep 21 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm to Firm Linkages" Speaker: Isabella Manelici, IES. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisogno mbisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2020 Sep 14 Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom) 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Online Only "Information Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labor Court" Speaker: Christopher Woodruff, Professor of Development Economics, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Contacts: Marinagrazia Bisognombisogno@fas.harvard.edu Jeanne Winnerjwinner@fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development (via Zoom)
2019 Oct 28 Seminar in Economic Development 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210 “Labor Rationing: A revealed preference approach from hiring shocks” Speaker: Emily Breza, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jill Smithjill_smith@harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development
2019 Dec 02 Seminar in Economic Development 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210 "Direct and Indirect Effects of Financial Access on SME" Speaker: Jing Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland. Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jill Smithjill_smith@harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development
2019 Nov 25 Seminar in Economic Development 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210 "Attending Kindergarten Improves Cognitive but not Socioemotional Development in India" Speaker: Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jill Smithjill_smith@harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development
2019 Nov 18 Seminar in Economic Development 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210 "Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Paraguay" Speaker: Frederico Finan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jill Smithjill_smith@harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development
2019 Nov 11 Seminar in Economic Development 3:00pm to 4:15pm Location: Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy Street, Room 210 "Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices" Speaker: Natalie Bau, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University, and the Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contact: Jill Smithjill_smith@harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic Development