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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

Spring 2021

May
17
Rebecca Dizon-Ross - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Can price discrimination incentivize behavior change? Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Author:  Ariel Zucker

May
3
Adam Osman - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Author: Peter Christensen

April
26
Anne Karing - Princeton University

The Social Multiplier from Visibility: Experimental Evidence from Deworming in Kenya

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-Author:  Karim Naguib 

April
19
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro - University of California, Berkeley

Vulnerability and Clientelism

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Authors: Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paul J. Gertler and Simeon Nichter 

April
5
Dean Karlan - Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-Authors: Gharad Bryan and Adam Osman

March
29
Kelsey Jack - University of California, Santa Barbara

Poor and rational: Decision-making under scarcity

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Abstract

Winter 2021

March
1
Maddie McKelway - Stanford University King Center

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Women's Employment

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Abstract
February
22
Angelino Viceisza - Hoover Fellow & Spelman College

Neuroeconomics for Development: Eye-tracking to Understand Migrant Remittances

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Authors: Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero

February
15

Presidents' Day - No Seminar

Date
-
February
8
Chang-Tai Hsieh - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Special Deals from Special Investors

Date
-
Location:
Zoom

Link to Paper

Co-Authors: Chong-En Bai, Zheng Song and  Xin Wang