Research Program in Development Studies

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars meet on Wednesday from 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. in 300 Wallace Hall.
 

September 24 -Angus Deaton, Professor, Princeton University
“Instruments of Development? Randomization in the Tropics and the Hunt for the Elusive Keys to Development”
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Health and Well Being (CHW)

September 25 - Angus Deaton, Professor, Daniel Kahneman, Professor, and Peter Singer,
Professor, Princeton University
“Measuring the Wellbeing of the World”
NOTE TIME: 4:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Health and Well Being (CHW) and the Center for Human Values (CHV)

October 1 - Gustavo Bobonis, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
“Endowments, Coercion, and the Containment of Education: Evidence from the 19th Century Coffee Boom”
Co-sponsored with the Center for Health and Well Being (CHW)

October 22 - Aparajita Goyal, Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
“Information Technology and Rural Market Performance in Central India”

December 3 - Laura Schechter, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay”

December 10  - Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chris Papageorgiou, Economist, International Monetary Fund, Arvind Subramanian, Sr. Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University