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Development/Environment
Seminar Spring 2007 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 have instituted 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 semester (indicated by asterisks) will be joint
with other seminars, and will meet at non-standard times. Please refer to the
notes for those meetings. 3. For further information on the department seminar schedule, please
refer to the Economics Department public calendar here. Feb. 8: Nat
Keohane (Yale SOM), Migration and
Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality. *Feb 14,
4:15-5:45pm: Rob Townsend (Chicago Econ), Enterprise
and the Wealth of Villages.
(Joint with Applied Micro seminar) Feb 22: Bill
Easterly (NYU), Are Aid
Agencies Improving? March 1:
Chris Woodruff (UCSD), Returns to
Capital in Micro-Enterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment. March 8:
Arik Levinson (Georgetown), Globalization
and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing. March 15:
Spring break, no meeting. *March 21,
4:15-5:45pm: Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Disease and
Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth. (Joint
with Applied Micro seminar.) March 22:
Martin Weitzman (Harvard), The Stern
Review of the Economics of Climate Change. March 29:
Erica Field (Harvard), Iodine Deficiency
and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania. April 5:
Rodrigo Soares (Maryland), Rent Seeking and
the Unveiling of De Facto Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage
within Brazil. April 12:
Christopher Timmins (Duke), Roy Model
Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life. April 19:
Robin Burgess (LSE), The Unequal
Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India. *April 25,
2:15-3:45pm: Gordon Hanson (UCSD), The Great Mexican
Migration. (Joint with International Seminar.) May 3: T.
Paul Schultz (Yale), Family Planning
as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Programs Consequences in
Matlab, Bangladesh. * Note change from regular day/time. |