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.

February 27, 2008 – Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)

Christina Paxson, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Angus Deaton 

March 5, 2008 – Linda Adair, Professor & Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Nutrition and Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
"Long Term Consequences of Early Child Health: Insights from the Cebu (Philippines) Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey"
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)

March 12, 2008 – Duncan Thomas, Professor of Economics and Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
"Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence"
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)

April 2, 2008 –Rob Jensen, Visiting Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

April 9, 2008 –Jeffrey Hammer, Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Economic Development and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"Chronically Misinformed: Information and Chronic Disease in Delhi"
(with Jishnu Das)
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)

CANCELED April 23, 2008 –Daron Acemoglu, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
"TBA"
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)

April 30, 2008 –Jesse Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research
Co-sponsored with Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHW)