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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
29
Leonard Wantchekon - Princeton University

Parental Education and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Colonial Schools in Nigeria

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Gabor Nyeki and Dozie Okoye

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

Digging for Votes: Machine-Learning Detection of Illegal Mining and its Effects on Political Outcomes

Date
-
Location:
Landau - Lucas A
Link to Abstract

Co-author: Juan Felipe Riaño (Georgetown University)

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

Winter 2023

March
27

No Seminar - Spring Break

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
March
20
Rachel Glennerster - University of Chicago

The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom

Co-author: Katherine Casey

March
13
Tavneet Suri - MIT Sloan School of Management

The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental Evidence from Kenya on Universal Basic Income

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom

Co-authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Faye, Alan Krueger and Paul Niehaus

March
13
Lauren Bergquist - Yale University

Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Craig McIntosh and Meredith Startz

March
6

No Seminar

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
February
27
Amma Panin - University of Louvain

Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract
February
27
Gautam Rao - Harvard University

Not Learning from Others

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: John J. Conlon, Malavika Mani, Matthew Ridley and Frank Schilbach

February
20

No Seminar - Presidents' Day

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
February
13

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
February
6
Rachid Laajaj - University of Los Andes, Stanford University

On the Complexity of Learning in Agriculture

Date
-
Location:
Lucas A and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-author: Karen Macours