Columbia University

Development Colloquium

Academic Year 2011-2012

Fridays 12-1pm, IAB 1101

Coordinators: Cristian Pop-Eleches and Eric Verhoogen

Student coordinator: S Anukriti ( as3232@columbia.edu)

 

Reminders:

·    Please email your presentation title to Anu/Steve by the Friday morning of the week before your presentation so that it can be included in the Department’s seminar schedule.

·    Please email your presentation slides to Anu by the morning of your presentation so that they can be posted on Courseworks.

·    Please send a rough draft of your presentation to the discussant by the Monday morning before your presentation, and a final draft by noon on the Wednesday before your presentation.

 


Spring 2012 Schedule

 


Date

Speaker

Discussant

Title

Jan 20

Dilip Mookherjee

dilipm@bu.edu

 

Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance

 

Jan 27

Steve Simpson

sts2119@columbia.edu

 

Ama Baafra Abeberese

 

A College by Any Other Name: Natural Experiments in Taiwan's Higher Education Market

 

Feb 3

Anna Tompsett

alt2117@columbia.edu

 

Petra Persson

pmp2116@columbia.edu

 

Bridges: Transport and Development in the United States 1880-2000

 

The Impact of Spousal Resource Control on Violence, Communication, and Consumption Within the Household

 

Feb 10

David Blakeslee

dsb2108@columbia.edu

 

Laurence Wilse-Samson

 

Climate Shocks, Inequality, and Collective Violence in Rural India

Feb 17

No Meeting

 

 

Feb 24

Todd Kumler

tjk2110@columbia.edu

 

Hyelim Son

 

Employment Effects of Social Security Reform in Mexico

 

Mar 2

Hyuncheol Kim

hk2105@columbia.edu

Evan Plous

 

Is Cancer Screening Necessary? Effect and Behavioral Response of Stomach, Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screenings

Mar 9

Naihobe Gonzalez

ndg2109@columbia.edu

Patricia Navarro-Palau

 

Gender and Competition in University Admissions: Evidence from Venezuela

Mar 23

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

rs2861@columbia.edu

Chris Boone

 

Wretched of The Earth: Dig, and Get Married If You Can. Marriage, Minerals and Civil War: Evidence from the Congo

 

Mar 30

(1.5 hrs)

Giovanni Paci

gp2282@columbia.edu

 

Hyelim Son

hs2549@columbia.edu

 

Framing, Anchoring, and Limited Attention in the Field: Preliminary Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry

 

Non-labor Market Returns of Female College Education: Evidence from South Korea

Apr 6

S Anukriti

as3232@columbia.edu

Anna Tompsett

 

Effect of Financial Incentives on Fertility and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Devirupak

Apr 13

(1.5 hrs)

Ama Baafra Abeberese

aba2114@columbia.edu

 

Ritam Chaurey

rc2556@columbia.edu

 

Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

 

Location-based Tax Incentives: Evidence From India

Apr 20

Chris Boone

cdb2129@columbia.edu

 

Laurence Wilse-Samson

lhw2110@columbia.edu

 

The Effect of Ground-level Ozone on US Maize Yields

 

Apartheid Political Economy

Apr 27

Evan Plous

emp2150@columbia.edu

 

Patricia Navarro-Palau

pn2212@columbia.edu

 

A Tap in Every Home: Connecting Bangalore's Slums to the Municipal Water System

 

The Proportion of Educated Workers and Heterogeneous Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Colombia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 2011 Schedule

 


Date

Speaker

Discussant

Title

Sep 9

Organizational Meeting

 

 

Sep 16

No meeting

Sep 23

Corinne Low

csl2137@columbia.edu

 

 

Laurence Wilse-Samson

lhw2110@columbia.edu

Negotiating a Better Future: The Impact of Teaching Girls Negotiation Skills on Health and Schooling

 

Pricing Changes in Term Limits

Sep 30

Todd Kumler

tjk2110@columbia.edu

Jonathan Dingel

Local Labor Market Impacts on Internal and International Migration in Mexico

Oct 7

Chris Boone

cdb2129@columbia.edu

 

Hyelim Son

hs2549@columbia.edu

 

Investigating Spillovers from Agriculture on the Non-farm Sector in Indonesia

 

The Impact of Cash Receipt Program on Tax Evasion

 

Oct 14

S Anukriti

as3232@columbia.edu

Evan Plous

Effect of Financial Incentives on Fertility and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Devirupak Scheme

 

Oct 21

No meeting

Oct 28

Climent Quintana-Domeque

climent@ua.es

The Microeconomic Effects of Infrastructure: Experimental

Evidence from Street Pavement

Nov 4

David Blakeslee

dsb2108@columbia.edu

 

 

Hyuncheol Kim

hk2105@columbia.edu

 

 

Expanding Educational Opportunities in Remote Parts of the World: Evidence from a RCT of a Public-Private Partnership in Pakistan

 

The Impact of Maternal Nutrition and Health Interventions on Mother and Child’s Health Outcomes

 

Nov 11

Ama Baafra Abeberese

aba2114@columbia.edu

Giovanni Paci

Imported Inputs and Exporting Activity

Nov 18

Ritam Chaurey

rc2556@columbia.edu

 

Soule Sow

ss3721@columbia.edu

Location-based Tax Incentives:Evidence from India

 

 

Information Asymmetry: A Study of Islamic Finance

Nov 25

University Holiday

Dec 2

Tao Li

tl2157@columbia.edu

 

Giovanni Paci

gp2282@columbia.edu

 

Transport Accessibility, Housing Prices and Welfare: Evidence from Beijing

 

Tips for Taxi Drivers: Preliminary Evidence

Dec 9

(1.5 hrs)

Patrick Asuming

poa2102@columbia.edu

 

 

Naihobe Gonzalez

ndg2109@columbia.edu

 

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

rs2861@columbia.edu

 

Understanding Low Enrollment in Health Insurance in Developing Countries

 

Gender and Competition in University Admissions: Evidence from Venezuela

 

Guns, Seeds and Daughters