Research Program in Development Studies
Economic Development Seminars
Fall 2009
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars meet on Wednesday from 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. in 300 Wallace Hall.
Due to budgetary considerations, seminar papers will no longer be provided at presentations. Please download a copy of the paper for yourself prior to the event.
Effective October 14th we are no longer providing lunch at the weekly seminar series. Please feel free to bring your lunch to the conference room; water will be available.
September 23 - Martin Wittenberg, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Cape Town
"Lazy Rotten Sons? Relatedness, gender and the intra-household allocation of work and leisure in South Africa"
September 30 - Eric Verhoogen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University
"Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data"
October 7 - Chang-Tai Hsieh, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
"Misallocation"
October 14 - Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor"
October 19 - David Salisbury, Director of Immunization, Department of Health, London
"The challenge of introducing new vaccines: The UK experience"
NOTE: MONDAY @ 12 NOON
Co-sponsored with the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP)
October 20 - Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
"The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys"
NOTE: TUESDAY @ 12 NOON
Co-sponsored with the Office of Population Research (OPR)
October 28 - Joachim Voth, ICREA Research Professor of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University
"Sweet Diversity: Colonial Goods and the Rise of European Living Standards after 1492"
December 2 - Alessandro Tarozzi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University
"Micro-loans, bednets and malaria: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Orissa (India)"
December 9 - Angus S. Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"Quality, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty"