| 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 |