"Signaling, Stigma, and Silence in Social Learning"

Speaker:

Arun Chandrasekhar, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University.

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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“Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools”

Speaker:

Asim Khwaja, Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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“Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards in Indonesia”

Speaker:

Gautem Rao, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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"Making Moves Matter"

Speaker:

Ben Olken, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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"Unity in Diversity: Ethnicity, Migration, and Nation Building in Indonesia"

Speaker:

Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University.

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner
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"Access to Migration for Rural Households"

Speaker:

Shing-Yi Wang, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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"Competition in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach"

Speaker:

Lorenzo Casaburi, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Zurich

Contacts: 

Ashley Grant
argrant@fas.harvard.edu

Jeanne Winner 
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"Debates: Voting and Expenditure Responses to Political Communication"

Speaker:

Katherine Casey, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Contact:

Jeanne Winner
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"Weather Shocks, Age of Marriage and the Direction of Marriage Payments"

Speaker:

Alessandra Voena, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
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"Corporate Leverage and Employees' Rights in Bankruptcy"

Speaker:

Marco Pagano, Professor of Economics, University of Naples.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
jwinner@fas.harvard.edu 

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"Cheap Workers and Local Industrialization: Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Transfers"

Speaker:

Michael Peters, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
jwinner@fas.harvard.edu 

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"The Importance of Being Nice: Supervisory Skill Training in the Cambodian Garment Industry"

Speaker:

Antoinette Schoar, Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
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"The State as Organized Crime: Industrial Organization of the Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"

Speaker:

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
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"Pirates of Somalia: Crime and Deterrence on the High Seas"

Speaker:

Quy Toan-Do, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
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"Kinship Systems, Gender Norms, and Household Bargaining: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt"

Speaker:

Sara Lowes, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Contacts: 

Caitlin Kupsc
kupsc@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeanne Winner 
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