Development colloquium
Academic Year 2013-2013
Fridays 12-1pm, IAB 1101
Coordinators: Suresh Naidu and Eric Verhoogen
Student organizer: Hyelim Son
Reminders:

Date Presenter Discussant Title
25 Jan 2013Chris Blattman "Promoting local order and property rights: Evidence from a dispute resolution program in Liberia"
1 Feb 2013
Elise Huillery
"School Inputs, Parent Response and School Quality: Experimental Evidence from Niger"
8 Feb 2013Booyuel Kim
Evan Riehl
"Peer Effects in male circumcision take-up: a field experiment in Malawi"
"Employer Learning about Colombian College Graduates"
15 Feb 2013 Hyelim SonEvan Plous"Income shocks and educational attainment: a case of Indonesia"
22 Feb 2013Chris BooneGoran Lazarevski" Agriculture and the nonfarm economy in the interwar United States"
1 Mar 2013Jonathan Dingel
Soule Sow
"Plants, prices, and geography"
"Teachers Preferences of Locations: Amenities valuation and student outcomes"
8 Mar 2013Corinne Low
Miguel Morin
"The Impact of Extended Fertility on Education and Marriage Outcomes: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of IVF Access"
"Electricity and the Great Depression"
15 Mar 2013Jan von der GoltzPatricia Navarro"Mines: the Local Welfare Effects of Mineral Mining in Developing countries"
29 Mar 2013Raul Sanchez de la SierraKunjal Desai"Ethnic Institutions and formal contracts. An experiment in DRC"
4 Apr 2013Giovanni PaciEvan Riehl"Reference-Dependent Frauds"
12 Apr 2013Feiran Zhang
Kunjal Desai
"Imitation and Innovation"
"Efficient Public Goods Provision"
19 Apr 2013Ritam ChaureyFeiran Zhang"Labor regulations and contract labor use: evidence from Indian firms"
26 Apr 2013Evan Plous
Patricia Navarro-Palau
"The Effects of Price Changes in the Context of Increase Block Pricing in a Developing Country Setting"
"University admission systems and mix of entering students. Evidence from Chile"
3 May 2013Laurence Wilse-SamsonSoule Sow"Mines, Mechanization and Migration"