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 2013
| Date | Speaker |
| Tues., February 26 11:45 a.m. 141 Sage Hall |
Josh Schwartzstein (Dartmouth College) (joint
w/Behavioral) Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming (joint w/Rema Hanna & Sendhil Mullainathan) |
| Mon., March 4 4:15 p.m. 115 Ives Hall |
Jim Berry (Cornell University) (joint w/Labor) |
| Thurs., March 7 4:30 p.m. 105 Ives Hall |
Frank Knight Lecture Andrew Chesher (University College London) Incomplete Models and Ambiguity in Economics |
| Thur., March 28 4:30 p.m. 305 Ives Hall |
George Staller Lecture Daron Acemoglu (MIT) Why Nations Fail |
| Tues., April 9 4:15 p.m. 494 Uris Hall |
Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School, &
Member, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton) (joint w/Public Econ) Do Elected Councils Improve Governance Outcomes? Experimental Evidence on Local Institutions in Afghanistan (joint w/Andrew Bush & Fotini Christia) |
| Fri., April 26 3:45 p.m. 498 Uris Hall |
Kelsey Jack (Tufts University) (joint w/Environmental,
Real Estate and Urban Economics) Contracting for Environmental Outcomes: A Field Experiment in Zambia |
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Department of Economics
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