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Stanford
Department of Economics
School of Humanities and Sciences

Development

Development Seminars hosted by the Department of Economics are supported by the Stanford King Center on Global Development.

Staff Coordinator: Susan Taylor
Email: taylors@stanford.edu

iCal feed: https://economics.stanford.edu/seminar/7086/ical
Note: iCal feed works best with webmail or Outlook and may not function properly with other calendars. Google calendar, in particular, has a problem with syncing when an existing event is modified and the change is not reflected on the calendar.

Upcoming Events

Fall 2021

December
6

Adrien Matray - Princeton University, visiting Stanford

The Real Effects of Banking the Poor: Evidence from Brazil

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Author: Julia Fonseca

December
8

Isaiah Andrews, Harvard University

Inference on Winners

Date
-
Location:
GSB Bass Center, Room 400
Link to paper

Co-authors: Toru Kitagawaz and Adam McCloskey
 

Winter 2022

January
31

Neil Thakral - Brown University

Paper TBA

Date
-
February
9

Nathan Hendren, Harvard University

Paper TBA

Date
-
February
28

Karen Ye - Queen's University

Paper TBD

Date
-
March
9

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University

Paper TBA

Date
-

Spring 2022

March
28

Maitreesh Ghatak - London School of Economics

TBD

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
April
13

Sandy Black, Columbia University

Paper TBA

Date
-
April
25

Juliana Londono-Velez - University of California, Los Angeles

Paper TBA

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320
May
11

David Autor, MIT

TBA

Date
-
May
30

No Seminar - Memorial Day

Date

Past Events

Fall 2021

November
29

Sam Asher - Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Alison Campion, Douglas Gollin, Paul Novosad

November
22

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week

Date
November
15

Reshmaan Hussam - Harvard Business School

The Psychosocial Value of Employment

Date
-
Location:
ZOOM
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra

November
10

Penny Goldberg, Yale University

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Costas Meghir, and Gabriel Ulyssea.
 

November
1

Allan Hsiao - University of Chicago

Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320 & Zoom
Link to Paper
October
25

Christina Brown - University of Chicago

Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320
Link to Paper

Co-author: Tahir Andrabi

October
18

Radhika Jain - The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Private Hospital Behavior Under Government Insurance: Evidence from Reimbursement Changes in India

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320
Link to Abstract
October
13

Benjamin Handel, UC Berkeley

The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands

Date
-
Location:
GSB Bass Center, Room 400
Link to paper

Co-authors: Jonathan Kolstad, Thomas Minten, and Johannes Spinnewijn.

October
11

Augustin Bergeron - Stanford King Center on Global Development

Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320
Link to Paper

Co-Authors:  Pedro Bessone, John Kabeya Kabeya, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan Weigel

October
4

Cauê Dobbin - Stanford University

Financial Aid and the Supply and Demand for Higher Education

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR - Doll 320
Link to Abstract

Co-Authors: Nano Barahona and Sebastian Otero