Development
Program Organizer: Kaushik Basu
All workshops are on Fridays at 4:00 p.m. in Uris Hall 498 unless otherwise noted.
The Workshop is co-sponsored with the Program on Comparative Economic Development.
March 6 - Kathleen Beegle (World Bank)
Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania:
Evidence from a Tracking Survey (joint w/Joachim De Weerdt & Stefan
Dercon)
March 13 - Nigar Hashimzade (University of Reading, visiting Cornell
University)
Child Labour and Growth (joint
w/Uma Kambhampati)
March 27 - (4:00 p.m. 401 Warren Hall) - David Levine (University
of California-Berkeley) (joint w/AEM)
Choose and Use: Preliminary Results on how Behavioral Decision-Making
and Experience Affect Households' Preferences for and use of Safe Water
Products
March 30 - Jorgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics) (Joint
w/Micro Theory)
Kinship, Incentives and Evolution (joint
w/Ingela Alger)
April 3 - OPEN
April 10 - Prasanta Pattanaik (UC Riverside)
On Dominance and Context-Dependence in Decisions
Involving Multiple Attributes (joint w/Yongsheng Xu)
April 17 - Matthias Schuendeln (Harvard University)
Private
versus Social Returns to Human Capital: Education and Economic Growth
in India (joint w/John Playforth)
April 22 - (Wed., 4:00 p.m., 265 Statler Hall) - Chuck Manski
(Northwestern University)
Diversified Treatment under Ambiguity
April 24 - Inaki Permanyer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
visiting Cornell University)
Assessing the Robustness of Composite Indices
Rankings
May 1 - Michael Boozer (Yale University)
Household Information: Implications for
Poverty Measurement and Dynamics (joint w/Markus Goldstein & Tavneet
Suri)
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