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 |
|
Intermediated Loans: A New Approach
to Microfinance |
|
Jan 27 |
Steve Simpson |
Ama Baafra
Abeberese |
A College by Any Other Name: Natural Experiments
in Taiwan's Higher Education Market |
|
Feb 3 |
Anna Tompsett Petra Persson |
|
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 |
Laurence Wilse-Samson |
Climate Shocks,
Inequality, and Collective Violence in Rural India |
|
Feb 17 |
No Meeting |
|
|
|
Feb 24 |
Todd Kumler |
Hyelim Son |
Employment Effects of
Social Security Reform in Mexico |
|
Mar 2 |
Hyuncheol Kim |
Evan Plous |
Is Cancer Screening
Necessary? Effect and Behavioral Response of Stomach, Breast and Colorectal
Cancer Screenings |
|
Mar 9 |
Naihobe Gonzalez |
Patricia Navarro-Palau |
Gender and
Competition in University Admissions: Evidence from Venezuela |
|
Mar
23 |
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra |
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 Hyelim Son |
|
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 |
Anna Tompsett |
Effect of Financial Incentives on
Fertility and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Devirupak |
|
Apr 13 (1.5 hrs) |
Ama Baafra
Abeberese Ritam Chaurey |
|
Electricity Cost and Firm
Performance: Evidence from India Location-based Tax Incentives:
Evidence From India |
|
Apr 20 |
Chris Boone Laurence Wilse-Samson |
|
The Effect of Ground-level Ozone on
US Maize Yields Apartheid Political Economy |
|
Apr 27 |
Evan Plous Patricia Navarro-Palau |
|
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 Laurence Wilse-Samson |
Negotiating a Better Future: The
Impact of Teaching Girls Negotiation Skills on Health and Schooling Pricing Changes in Term Limits |
|
|
Sep 30 |
Todd Kumler |
Jonathan Dingel |
Local Labor Market Impacts on
Internal and International Migration in Mexico |
|
Oct 7 |
Chris Boone Hyelim Son |
|
Investigating Spillovers from
Agriculture on the Non-farm Sector in Indonesia The Impact of Cash Receipt Program on
Tax Evasion |
|
Oct 14 |
S Anukriti |
Evan Plous |
Effect of Financial Incentives on
Fertility and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Devirupak Scheme |
|
Oct 21 |
No meeting |
||
|
Oct 28 |
Climent Quintana-Domeque |
||
|
Nov
4 |
David Blakeslee Hyuncheol Kim |
|
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 |
Giovanni Paci |
Imported Inputs and Exporting
Activity |
|
Nov 18 |
Ritam Chaurey Soule Sow |
Location-based Tax Incentives:Evidence from India Information Asymmetry: A Study of
Islamic Finance |
|
|
Nov 25 |
University Holiday |
||
|
Dec 2 |
Tao Li Giovanni Paci |
|
Transport Accessibility, Housing
Prices and Welfare: Evidence from Beijing Tips for Taxi Drivers: Preliminary
Evidence |
|
Dec 9 (1.5 hrs) |
Patrick Asuming Naihobe Gonzalez Raul Sanchez de la Sierra |
|
Understanding Low Enrollment in
Health Insurance in Developing Countries Gender and Competition in University
Admissions: Evidence from Venezuela Guns, Seeds and Daughters |