Columbia University
Development / Environmental Economics Seminar Series
Thursdays 4:15 - 5:45pm
Room 1027 International Affairs Building

Sponsored by the Earth Institute and the Department of Economics

Date Speaker Paper
Oct 8 Raymond Guiteras (Maryland) The Short- and Medium-Run Impacts of Sanitation on Diarrhea and Malaria in Rural India.
Oct 14* Gordon Hanson (UCSD) Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of Protestant Denominations
Oct 15 Rohini Pande (Harvard) Building Social Capital Through Microfinance
Oct 22 Lori Beaman (Northwestern) Who gets the job referral? Evidence from a social networks experiment in Kolkata
Oct 29 Michael Anderson (Berkeley) Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?
Nov 5 Jan Svejnar (Michigan) Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Nov 12 Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts) Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Volatility
Nov 18* Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U) Middlemen Margins and Globalization
Nov 26 no speaker Thanksgiving
Dec 3 Ted Miguel (Berkeley) TBA
Dec 10 Ryan Kellogg (Michigan) The Impact of Climate Change on Household Welfare
* joint with International Seminar