Columbia University Development Workshop
 Spring 2013
Thursdays 4:15 - 5:45 PM
International Affairs Building 1101
Coordinator: Supreet Kaur


Date Speaker Paper Title Notes
February 14Enrico Moretti (Berkeley)Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
February 28Paul Niehaus (UCSD)A Theory of Good Intentions
March 7Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)Do Initial Endowments Matter Only Initially? Birth Weight, Parental Investments and Academic Achievement in School
March 14Kaivan Munshi (Brown)Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration
March 28Chris Udry (Yale)Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
April 4Petra Todd (Penn)Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools
April 11Michael Clemens (CGD)The effects of Gulf construction jobs on Indians and their families: Preliminary results
April 18Jon Robinson (UCSC)Daily Needs, Income Targets and Labor Supply: Evidence from Kenya
April 25Oriana Bandiera (LSE)Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
May 2Dean Yang (Michigan)Subsidizing Remittances for Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
May 9Dan Keniston (Yale)Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America



The Development Workshop is generously funded by the School of International and Public Affairs.
The Workshop is co-sponsored by the Columbia Economics Department and the Center for Global Economic Governance.