Development Seminar
Spring 2005

Department of Economics, Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027

The Earth Institute at Columbia University
535 West 116th Street, 405 Low Library, New York, NY 10027

 

Time: Thursdays, 4:15 to 5:45

Location: 1027 International Affairs Building (IAB)

Organizers: Malgosia Madajewicz (mm1174@columbia.edu: 212-854-4311)

                  Ben Cahill (bcahill@ei.columbia.edu; 212-854-3615)

 

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February 10	Erin Mansur (Yale University) A Discrete-Continuous Model of Climate Change Impacts on Energy
February 24	Imran Rasul (University of Chicago) Managerial Incentives in Hierarchies: Evidence from a Firm-Level Experiment
March 3	Paul Glewwe (Minnesota) How Much of Observed Economic Mobility is Measurement Error? A Method to Remove Measurement Error, with an application to Vietnam
March 10	Jonathan Morduch (NYU) Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums
March 17	Spring break - no seminar
March 24	Emmanuel Saez (Berkeley) The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1885-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
March 31	Seema Jayachandran (UCLA and Berkeley) Air Quality and Infant Mortality During Indonesia's 1997 Wildfires
April 7	Leonard Wantchekon (NYU) Information, Social Networks, and the Demand for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin
April 14	Timothy Guinnane (Yale) Regional Banks for Micro-credit Institutions: 'Centrals' in the German Cooperative System before the First World War
April 21	Maristella Botticini (Boston University) From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
April 28	Paul Gertler (Berkeley) Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living Standards
May 5	Daron Acemoglu (MIT) The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies

 

Fall 2004 Development Seminar Schedule

Spring 2004 Development Seminar Schedule

 

This seminar series is supported by:

The Earth Institute at Columbia University

Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development

Columbia University Department of Economics

 

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