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Seema Jayachandran

Assistant Professor

Seema Jayachandra

Contact Info:

jayachan@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~jayachan/
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-725-1870

Office: Landau 230

Office hours: Wednesday 4-6 pm

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: Development economics, applied microeconomics, political economy
  • Current Research: Health and development; private tutoring; cousin marriage; entrepreneurship
  • Teaching: Development economics
  • Professional Affiliations:

    AEA, NBER, CEPR, BREAD

Recent Publications

(1) “Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines” (with A. Lleras-Muney) Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming

(2) “Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries,” Journal of Political Economy, 2006

(3) “Odious Debt” (with M. Kremer) American Economic Review, 2006

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Autumn

ECON 118 Development Economics

ECON 214 Development Economics I

ECON 300 Third-Year Seminar

Spring

ECON 300 Third-Year Seminar

Education

Ph.D., M.A., Harvard University; S.B., MIT