September 8

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program

September 16

No Seminar - Economics department recruitment

Related seminar: please note that on September 15th, Ted Miguel of UC Berkeley will speak in the Applied Micro seminar.  Visit the Applied Micro website for details.

September 23

No Seminar - Economics department recruitment

September 29

Andrew Foster (Brown)

Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural Inequality

Joint Seminar with Applied Microeconomics, 4:15 to 5:45, 1027 IAB

October 7

Tanya Rosenblat (Wesleyan Univ.)

Measuring Social Capital in Real-World Social Networks: an Experimental Approach

October 14

Angus Deaton (Princeton)

Purchasing Power Parity Price Indexes and the Economic Geography of Asia

October 21

Dean Karlan (Princeton)

Observing Unobservables: Evidence on Information Asymmetries from a Consumer Credit Field Experience in South Africa

October 28

4:15 to 6:15

Sujata Visaria (Columbia)

Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: the Microeconomic Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India

and Juan Robalino (Columbia)

Estimating Spatial Interactions in Forest Clearing

November 4

Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

November 11

Dean Yang (Michigan)

International Migration, Human Capital, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

November 18

Doug Gollin (Williams College)

The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

November 25

Thanksgiving - No Seminar

December 2

Anand Swamy (Williams College)

Hold-up and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India

December 9

Malgosia Madajewicz (Columbia)

Impact of an Information Campaign about Arsenic in Drinking Water in Bangladesh