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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 2022

September
26
Rebecca Dizon Ross - University of Chicago, Booth

Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 & Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Authors: James Berry and Maulik Jagnani

Spring 2022

June
6
Isaac Mbiti - University of Virginia

Can Education be Standardized: Evidence from Kenya

Date
-
Location:
Zoom only

Co-authors: Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Anthony Keats, Michael Kremer, Owen…

May
30

No Seminar - Memorial Day

Date
May
23
Kate Orkin - University of Oxford

Aspirations, Assets and Anti-Poverty Policies

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-authors: Robert Garlick, Mahreen Mahmud, Richard Sedlmayr, Johannes Haushofer, Stefan Dercon

May
16

No Seminar

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
May
2
Christine Valente - University of Bristol

Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Grant Miller and Aureo de Paula

April
25
Juliana Londoño-Vélez - University of California, Los Angeles

Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-authors: Arlen Guarin and Christian Posso 

April
18
Michael Gechter - Pennsylvania State University

Combining Experimental and Observational Studies in Meta-Analysis: Theory and Applications to Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Microfinance

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-author: Rachael Meager

April
4
Augustin Tapsoba - Toulouse School of Economics (visiting King Center)

Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Abstract
March
28
Arun Chandrasekhar - Stanford University

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-scale Experiment on Immunization

Date
-
Location:
SIEPR 320 and Zoom
Link to Abstract

with Abhijit Banerjee, Suresh Dalpath, Esther Duflo, John Floretta, Matthew O. Jackson, Harini Kannan, Francine Loza, Anirudh Sankar, Anna Schrimpf, and Maheshwor Shrestha