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Development

Program Organizer: Jim Berry

All workshops are on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. in Uris Hall 494 unless otherwise noted.

The Workshop is co-sponsored with the Program on Comparative Economic Development.

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker
February 17 Fri., 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Caldwell 100	Shanta Devarajan (World Bank) (joint w/Dyson) Avoiding the Fragility Trap in Africa (joint w/Nora Andrimihaja & Matthias Cinyabuguma)
February 23	Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS) Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension (joint w/Marcelo Bergolo)
March 8	Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment (joint w/Jessica Cohen & Simone Schaner)
March 14 11:45 a.m. B05 Sage Hall	Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland) (joint w/Behavioral) Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices (joint w/Xavier Gine, Dan Silverman & Dean Yang)
March 29	Stephen Smith (George Washington University) Design of Targeting Criteria and Impact Assessment with Multiple Poverty Dimensions: Framework and Application to BRAC's Ultra-Poverty Program
April 5	Monica Martinez-Bravo (Johns Hopkins University (joint w/Public Economics) The Role of Local Officials in New Democracies: Evidence from Indonesia
April 12	Frederico Finan (University of California, Berkeley) (joint w/Public Economics) Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service (joint w/Ernesto Bo & Martin Rossi)
April 20 Fri., 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m Caldwell 100	Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth College) (joint w/Dyson School) Borrowing High vs. Borrowing Higher: Sources and Consequences of Dispersion in Individual Borrowing Cost
April 26 3:45 p.m. 185 Statler Aud.	Frank Knight Lecture - Professor James Heckman (University of Chicago) Hard Evidence on Soft Skills