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 |
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