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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

Spring 2023

May
29

No Seminar - Memorial Day

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
May
22
Diana Moreira - University of California, Davis

State Paralysis: The effect of Compliance Uncertainty on Government Effectiveness

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Gustavo Fernandes, Daniel Faleiros, Socorro P. Martínez, Joana Naritomi and Blenda Pereira

May
15
Thomas Fujiwara - Princeton University

Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions: A Revealed-Preference Approach

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Eduardo Morales and Charly Porcher 

 

May
8

No Seminar

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
May
1
Namrata Kala - MIT Sloan School of Management

Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: B. Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, and Rohini Pande

April
24
Lucia Corno - Cattolica University

Norm Replacement and Information. A Field Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-author: E. La Ferrara

April
17
Mesay Gebresilasse - Amherst College

Resettlement, Agricultural Productivity and Rural Development

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract
April
10
Esther Duflo - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices Through Information Networks in Rwanda

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom

Co-authors: Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri and Celine Zipfel

April
4
Shilpa Aggarwal - Indian School of Business

The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Rural Liberia and Malawi

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Jenny C. Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jonathan Robinson and Alan Spearot

Winter 2023

March
27

No Seminar - Spring Break

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom