Columbia University

Development/Environment Seminar

Fall 2006

Thursdays 4:15 – 5:45 (with some exceptions)

Room IAB 1027

Sponsored by the Earth Institute and the Department of Economics

Coordinators: Eric Verhoogen and Wolfram Schlenker

Notes:

1. We are instituting a new arrangement this year in which the second Thursday of each month is reserved for an environmental speaker and the other slots for development speakers (with some flexibility).

2. Several meetings this year will be joint with the Applied Microeconomics seminar, and several of the joint meetings (indicated by asterisks below) will be held Wednesday 4:15-5:45, rather than Thursday.

3. The schedule is subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to the Economics Department public calendar here.

Sept. 7: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank), “Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador.”

Sept. 14: Barrett Kirwan (Maryland), “The Wealth of U.S. Farmers and Developing Nations: The Effect of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Income in Developing Countries.”

Sept. 21: Pascaline Dupas (Dartmouth), “Relative Risk and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya.”

Sept. 28: Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford), “Subjective Welfare, Isolation, and Relative Consumption.”

Oct. 5: Eliana LaFerrara (Bocconi), “Detecting Illegal Arms Trade.”

Oct. 12: Don Fullerton (University of Texas), “The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates.”

Oct. 18*: Chris Paxson (Princeton), “Cognitive Development Among Young Children in Ecuador: The Roles of Wealth, Health and Parenting.” (Joint with Applied Micro)

Oct. 19: Practice Job Market Seminar: Camelia Minoiu (Columbia), “Poverty Analysis Based on Kernel Density Estimates from Grouped Data.”

Oct. 26: Michael Greenstone (MIT), “The Health Impacts of Climate Change in the US: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather and Mortality.” (Joint with Applied Micro)

Nov. 1*: Esther Duflo (MIT), “Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School.” (Joint with Applied Micro)

Nov. 9: Kerry Smith -- cancelled

Nov. 16: Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth), “Institutional Influences on Human Capital Accumulation: Micro Evidence from Children Vulnerable to Bondage”

Nov. 29*: Orazio Attanasio -- cancelled

Dec. 7: Marcos Rangel (Harris School, Chicago), “Family Networks and School Enrollment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment.”

* Note change from regular day.