at Williams College
Thursday, January 12, 8:00PM, MainStage, ’62 Center – Prof. Lawrence Summers, Harvard University Kennedy School, will give a talk on the economy. Sponsored by Leadership Studies, Lecture Committee.
Wednesday, February 15, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Those Outsiders: How Downstream Externalities Affect Public Good Provision.
Wednesday, February 22, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Lucie Schmidt, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Understanding the Supplemental Security Income Program after the 1996 Welfare Reform.
Wednesday, February 29, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Robert Gazzale, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Testing Motives for Charitable Giving: Revealed-Preference and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Social Comparisons.
Tuesday, March 6, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Helen Levy, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. The Economics of Health Reform.
Thursday, March 8, 4:00PM, Wege Auditorium, Chemistry, Prof. Tara Watson, Williams College. Faculty Lecture Series. Immigrants and Public Health Insurance.
Tuesday, March 13, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Stephen Wu, Hamilton College. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. Are Pregnant Women Happier? Racial Differences in the Relationship Between Pregnancy and Life Satisfaction.
Thursday, March 15, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Abigail Hornstein, Wesleyan University. Economics Department Seminar. Managerial Investment in Mutual Funds.
Thursday, April 5, 4:00PM, Center for Development Economics- Prof. Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University. CDE Lecture. Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India.
Monday, April 9, 12:30PM, Faculty House Lounge- Prof. David Laibson, Harvard University. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. Self Control and Liquidity: How to Design a Commitment Contract.
Monday, April 9, 7:30PM Griffin 3- Dr. Adam Posen, Bank of England, Edwin Truman, Williams College, Jan Van Eck, Van Eck Asociates, Kenneth Kuttner, Williams College. Economics Department Panel Discussion. The Euro Crisis and its Impact.
Tuesday, April 24, 4:00PM, Griffin 3- Prof. Gerard Caprio, Williams College, Class of 1960′s Scholars talk. Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us.
Monday, April 30, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Kate Sims, Amherst College. Two-dimensional Evaluation: The Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Mexico’s Payments for Hydrological Services Program.
Thursday, September 22, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Ragan Petrie, George Mason University. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment.
Thursday, September 22, 8:00PM, Griffin 3- Prof. Patrick Honohan, Trinity College – Ireland. CDE Lecture.
Thursday, October 06, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Dietz Vollrath, University of Houston. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. The Agricultural Basis of Comparative Development.
Wednesday, October 12, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Douglas Gollin, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries.
Friday, October 21, 8:00PM, Brooks Rogers – Dr. Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development. CDE Lecture. Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan?
Saturday, October 22, 11:00AM, Griffin 3 – Panel on “Corruption and Reforms” with Ana Rodriguez-Ortiz CDE ’87, Inter-American Development Bank; William Savedoff, Center for Global Development; Anand Swamy, Williams College.
Tuesday, October 25, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Dean Yang, University of Michigan. CDE Lecture. Making Remittances Work for Economic Development.
Wednesday, November 2, 4:00PM, Griffin 6- Prof. Steven Nafziger, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Serfdom, Emancipation, and Economic Development in Tsarist Russia.
Wednesday, November 9, 4:00PM, CDE- Dr. Biju Rao, World Bank. CDE Lecture.
Monday, November 14, 4:00PM, Schapiro 129- Dr. David Wilcox, Federal Reserve Board. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. The Conduct of Monetary Policy During and Since the Financial Crisis.
Tuesday, November 15, 4:00PM, CDE- Prof. Monica Singhal, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. CDE Lecture.
Wednesday, November 30, 4:00PM, Schapiro 129- Prof. David Love, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Optimal Rules of Thumb for Consumption and Portfolio Choice.
Thursday, December 1, 7:30PM, Griffin 3- Frank Veneroso, Veneroso and Associates. Economics Department Talk. Is the Fed causing the next great bubble?
Wednesday, December 07, 4:00PM, Schapiro 129- Prof. Sara LaLumia, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. The EITC, Tax Refunds, and Unemployment Spells.
Thursday, March 3, 4:00 PM. Griffin 6– Prof. Thomas Ulen, University of Illinois – College of Law. Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. The Role of Law in Economic Growth and Development.
Wednesday, March 16, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. John Friedman, Harvard Kennedy School, Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar, How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence From Project STAR.
Monday, April 04, 3:00 PM, Griffin 3 — Prof. John Siegfried, Vanderbilt University, “Better Living Through Economics” Economics Department Seminar
Thursday, April 07, 4:00 PM Griffin 6 — Prof. Pinar Keskin, Wesleyan University, Economics Department Seminar. Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access.
Thursday, April 14, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 –Prof. Ricardo Reis, Columbia University, Economics Department Class of 1960′s Scholars Seminar. Targeted transfers and the fiscal response to the great recession.
Friday, April 15, 8:00 PM, Center for Development Economics – Prof. James Levinsohn ’81, Yale School of Management, Policies to Alleviate Unemployment in South Africa. Center for Development Economics talk.
Wednesday, April 20, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 – Prof. Robert Gazzale, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. The Effect of Buyout Options on Effort Contributions to Reduce Carbon Emissions.
Wednesday, April 27, 4:00 PM Griffin 6 — Prof. William Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment.
Friday, April 29, 4:00 PM, Center for Development Economics — Prof. Kristin Forbes ’92, MIT – Sloan School of Management. CDE seminar. Capital Controls: New Thinking on an Old Debate.
Wednesday, May 04, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Seminar by Prof. Nicholas Wilson of Williams College. Fertility Responses to PMTCT Scale-Up.
Thursday, September 23, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Enrica Detragiache, International Monetary Fund. Bank Capital: Lessons from the Financial Crisis. CDE Seminar.
Wednesday, September 29, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Tanseli Savaser, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Asymmetric Information and the Foreign-Exchange Spreads of Global Custody Banks.
Friday, October 01, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Nicholas Wilson, Williams College, The Early 21st Century Copper Boom and HIV/AIDS in Zambia. Economics Department Seminar.
Saturday, October 09, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM – Economic History & Development: Common Insights. Melon 23 Workshop.
Tuesday-Friday, October 12-15, — Center for Development Economics 50th Anniversary: A Half Century of Searching and Learning.
Wednesday, October 13, 8:00 PM, ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance — Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, A Half Century of Changing Perspectives on Development. Public lecture presented as part of the Center for Development Economics 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Thursday, October 14, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Griffin 3 – Changing the Pardigm: The Challenge to the Economics Profession in the Aftermath of the Crisis and the Role of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, and Rob Johnson, head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which was established in the wake of the financial crisis, will discuss economics in academia: how it is taught, encouraged, evaluated, and translates into the economics profession.
Thursday, October 14, 8:00 PM, ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance — Prof. Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, Diagnostics before Prescription? Public lecture presented as part of the Center for Development Economics 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Thursday, October 21, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Jeremy Stein, Harvard University. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. A Macroprudential Approach to Financial Regulation.
Wednesday, October 27, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Steven Rivkin, Amherst College. Economics Department Seminar. Estimating Principal Effectiveness
Tuesday, November 02, 4:00 PM, CDE — Prof. Rema Hanna, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia. CDE Seminar.
Friday, November 05, Griffin 6 – Michael Weinstein, Senior Vice President, Robin Hood Foundation. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Measuring Success: How Robin Hood Estimates the Impact of Grants
Thursday, November 11, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Kristin Butcher, Wellesley College. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Giving ‘Til It Helps? Alumnae Giving and Children’s College Options.
Wednesday, December 01, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. The Effects of Conservation Reserve Program Participation on Later Land Use.
Thursday, December 02, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Brigitte Madrian, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Consumer Financial Protection.
Thursday, December 09, 4:00 PM, Griffin 6 — Prof. Jay Wilson, Michigan State University. Economics Department Seminar. Tax Policy and the Missing Middle: Optimal Tax Remittance with Firm-Level Administrative Costs.