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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.

Coordinator: Tanya Naranjo
Email: tnaranjo [at] stanford.edu (tnaranjo[at]stanford[dot]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

Spring 2024

April
22
Anna Vitali - Dartmouth College

Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
Link to Abstract
April
29
Leonard Wantchekon - Princeton University

Paper TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
May
6

No Seminar - JAMS Week

Date
-
May
13
Seema Jayachandran - Princeton University

Reshaping Gender Attitudes in India: An 8-year Follow-Up Study

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
Link to Abstract
May
20
Santiago Saavedra - Universidad del Rosario

Paper TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
May
27

No Seminar - MEMORIAL DAY

Date
-
June
5
Eduardo Montero - University of Chicago

Paper TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351

Joint seminar with History

 

Past Events

Fall 2023

November
20

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week

Date
-
November
13
Leo Bursztyn - University of Chicago

How Are Gender Norms Perceived?

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Alessandra Voena and David Yanagizawa-Drott

November
6
Asha Sundaram - University of Auckland (visiting King Center)

Foreign Direct Investment, Geography, and Welfare

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Jose Asturias and Marco Sanfilippo

October
30
Ben Roth - Harvard University

Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan and Matt Lowe

October
23
Suhani Jalota - Stanford University

What Works for Her? Digital Jobs and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban India

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-author: Lisa Ho

October
16
Nina Buchmann - Stanford University

Paternalistic Discrimination

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract
October
9
Alex Lenk - Stanford University

How Does “Not” Knowing the Child Impact Parent’s Decisions? Experimental Evidence from School Choice in Bulgaria

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract
October
2
Mark Walsh - Stanford University

Do Social Concerns Affect Technology Diffusion? Evidence From Mobile Banking In Pakistan

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
September
25
Ruixue Jia - University of California, San Diego (visiting King Center)

Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Spring 2023

June
5
Prabhat Barnwal - Michigan State University

Informal Risk Sharing to Mitigate Local Environmental Risks

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Alexander van Geen and Yiqian Wang