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Earth Insitute Columbia University



 

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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