Spring 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 4:00pm-5:15pm. CDE Rm 211. Martin Guzman, former Minister of Economy for Argentina, CDE Seminar, Addressing Sovereign Debt Crises After COVID-19 and War.
Tuesday, March 7, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Pascual Restrepo, Boston University, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar, “The Task Approach to the Labor Market”. Background readings 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Thursday, March 16, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 7. Alex Albright ’14, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute), Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Hidden Effects of Algorithmic Recommendations.
Tuesday, April 4, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Vicki Bogan, Cornell Dyson, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Fear and Risk: Do Visceral Factors Affect Risk Taking?
Tuesday, April 18, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Uwe Sunde, Ludwig Maxmillian Univ of Munich, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Preference Convergence Around the World?.
Wednesday, April 19, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Explaining the decline in domestic migration.
Tuesday, April 25, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Raffi Garcia, RPI, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Racial Protests and Credit Access.
Thursday, April 27, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Jenny Aker, Tufts, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar, It’s all fun and games? Using WTP Experiments for Longer-Term Impacts.
Friday, May 5, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Tomáš Jagelka, University of Bonn, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach.
Tuesday, May 9, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Jing Li, MIT Sloan, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Colluding against Environmental Regulation.
Fall 2022
Thursday, September 15, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net.
Tuesday, September 20, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Billur Aksoy, RPI, Economics Department Seminar, Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey.
Thursday, September 29, 7:30pm-8:45pm. Griffin 6. Josh Tucker, NYU, joint Economics/Political Science/Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Social Media and Democracy (and Using Social Media Data to Study Politics)”.
Tuesday, October 4, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Anthony Fowler, University of Chicago, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Extreme Leaders, Partisan Constituents, and Congressional Polarization.
Thursday, October 6, 4:15pm-5:30pm. CDE Rm 211. Phil Gerson, IMF, CDE Seminar, Fiscal Rules and COVID – Preliminary Evidence.
Thursday, October 13, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Daniel Hamermesh, UT Austin, Economics Department Seminar, Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?
Thursday, October 27, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Nick Pretnar, UCSB, Economics Department Seminar, Measuring Inequality with Consumption Time.
Wednesday, November 2, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Felix Owusu ’11, Harvard, Economics Department Seminar, Presumptive Declination and Diversion in Suffolk County, MA.
Thursday, November 3, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Quentin Wodon, World Bank, joint CDE and Economics Department Seminar, Investing in Human Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.
Thursday, November 10, 4:00pm-5:15pm. CDE Rm 211. Salifou Issoufou, IMF, CDE Seminar, “The roles of the IMF in fragile and conflict-affected countries”.
Tuesday, November 15, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Garrett Anstreicher ‘15, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD program, Economics Department Seminar, Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility.
Thursday, November 17, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Mark Aguiar, Princeton, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto Improving Policies.
Wednesday, November 30, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Katie Gutierrez, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “Grocery taxes and household purchasing patterns: evidence from the NielsenIQ Consumer Panel Data”.
Thursday, December 1, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Erica Moszkowski ‘15, Harvard PhD program, Economics Department Seminar, Option Value and Storefront Vacancies in New York City.
Tuesday, December 6, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Schapiro 129. Andrew Hessler, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “A New Keynesian Unobserved Components Model”.
Thursday, December 8, 4:00pm-5:15pm. Griffin 6. Michael Norton ‘97, Harvard, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Wanting, Voting, and Paying for Greater Equality.
Winter and Spring 2022
Friday, January 14, 12:00pm. via Zoom. Wifag Adnan, NYU Abu Dhabi, Brown Bag Seminar, Save the Melting Pot! The Role of Culture versus Context in Shaping Economic Outcomes.
Thursday, January 20, 12:00pm. via Zoom. Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration.
Friday, January 21, 12:00pm. via Zoom. Ajay Shenoy, University of California, Santa Cruz, Brown Bag Seminar, The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine.
Thursday, February 10, 4:00pm. Ralph Chami, IMF, CDE Seminar, A New Framework for a Nature-Based Economy.
Thursday, February 17, 4:00pm. via Zoom. David Lagakos, Boston University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana.
Friday, March 4, 12:00pm. Schapiro 241. Josh Hyman, Amherst, Brown Bag Seminar, “Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime”.
Thursday, March 10, 4:00pm. via Zoom. Benjamin Enke, Harvard, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization.
Friday, March 11, 12:15pm. Schapiro 241. Neal Rappaport, Williams College, Brown Bag Seminar, “From the Taliban to the Taliban…How did 20 years in Afghanistan end in chaos?”.
Wednesday, April 6, 4:00pm. Schapiro 129. Owen Thompson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, The Long Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation.
Wednesday, April 20, 4:00pm. via Zoom. Greg Casey, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Projecting the impacts of climate change: the role of macroeconomic dynamics.
Thursday, April 28, 4:00pm. via Zoom. Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Improving STEM Learning: Experimental Evidence from Urban Primary Schools in India.
Saturday, April 30, Promoting Inclusion in Economic Research (PIER) Virtual Conference.
Friday, May 6, 12:00pm. Schapiro 241. Rohit Bhattacharya, Williams College, Brown Bag Seminar, “On Testability of the Front-Door Model via Verma Constraints”.
Fall 2021
Friday, September 24, 12:00pm. Schapiro 141. Alicia Atwood, Vassar, Brown Bag Seminar, “Measles, Mexico, and Migration”.
Tuesday, September 28, 4:00pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Reber, UCLA, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Were Federal COVID Relief Funds for Schools Enough?
Friday, October 1, 12:00pm. Schapiro 141. Ana Maria Ibanez, IDB, Brown Bag Seminar, “Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of a Large-Scale Regularization Program on Refugees’ Lives”.
Wednesday, October 6, 4:00pm. Schapiro 129. Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Importing the Opioid Crisis? Trade, Smuggling, and Fentanyl Overdoses.
Thursday, October 14, 4:00pm. Griffin 6. Todd Schoellman, Minneapolis Fed, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Alma Mater Matters: College Quality, Talent, and Development.
Tuesday, October 19, 4:00pm. Schapiro 129. Matthew Tarduno, Berkeley ARE, Economics Department Seminar, For Whom the Bridge Tolls: Congestion, Air Pollution, and Second-Best Road Pricing.
Thursday, November 4, 4:00pm. Griffin 6. Javaiera Qureshi, University of Illinois at Chicago, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars/CDE Seminar, OK Boomer: Generational Differences in Teacher Quality.
Friday, November 12, 4:00pm. Ramana Ramaswamy, Queens College and Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, CDE Seminar, “The Chinese Economy: A Longer-Term Perspective”.
Tuesday, November 16, 4:00pm. via Zoom. Jim Ziliak, University of Kentucky, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, Income Inequality, Race, and the EITC.
Friday, December 3, 12:00pm. Schapiro 141. Katie Gutierrez, Williams College, Brown Bag Seminar, “New Mexico Legislative Lottery Scholarship, policy change, and student achievement at the University of New Mexico”.
Winter and Spring 2021
Thursday, January 14, 12:00pm. Esra Kose, Bucknell University, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start on Infant Health.”
Tuesday, January 19, 12:00pm. Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “Self-Emancipation and Progressive Politics: The Legacy of Civil War Refugee Camps.”
Thursday, January 21, 12:00pm. Desmond Ang, Harvard Kennedy School, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate.”
Tuesday, January 26, 12:00pm. Emily Conover, Hamilton, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “To Catch a Policeman: Eliciting Effort in Response to Monitoring by Cameras.”
Thursday, January 28, 12:00pm. Shikha Singh, Williams College, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “The Mechanism Design Approach to Interactive Proofs.”
Monday, February 1, 12:00pm. Amalia Miller, University of Virginia, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, “Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Family and Career Outcomes.”
Thursday, February 4, 12:00pm. Alum Ivan Badinski, Yale, Economics Winter Brown Bag Webinar, “Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization: The Role of Physicians.”
Wednesday, February 24, 4:40pm. Samuel Bazzi, UCSD, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling.
Tuesday, March 16, 9:00am. Owen Ozier, Williams College, CDE Policy Webinar, “Improving Learning Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Tuesday, March 30, 9:00am. Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich, CDE Policy Webinar, “The efficiency and distributional effects of land markets.”
Thursday, April 1, 4:40pm. Sandy Black, Columbia, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, Where Does Wealth Come From?
Monday, April 12, 7:00pm. Bob Lipp ’60, Stone Point Capital, and Hans Morris, Nyca Partners, Joint Economics Department and Leadership Studies Program Seminar, “Strategic Management: JPMorgan’s Outperformance of Citigroup, 2005-2020.”
Tuesday, April 13, 9:00am. Priya Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin, CDE Policy Webinar, “Political Punishment and Financial Safety Nets: Evidence from India’s Demonetization.”
Tuesday, April 13, 4:40pm. Damon Jones, University of Chicago Harris School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, How Do Distributions from Retirement Accounts Respond to Early Withdrawal Penalties? Evidence from Administrative Tax Returns (with Gopi Shah Goda and Shanthi Ramnath).
Tuesday, April 27, 9:00am. Shan Aman-Rana, University of Virginia, CDE Policy Webinar, “Gender, Information Exchange and Choice over Co-workers.”
Tuesday, May 4, 9:00am. Manoj Mohanan, Duke University, CDE Policy Webinar, “Government Accountability and Child Health: Evidence from a Randomized Trial.”
Fall 2020
Tuesday, September 15, 8:00am. Thorsten Beck, City University Business School, CDE/Finance in a Time of Covid Webinar, “COVID-crisis in emerging markets: firm and financial sector reactions.”
Thursday, September 24, 4:40pm-5:45pm. Belinda Archibong, Barnard, Economics Department Webinar, Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration.
Tuesday, September 29, 9:00am. Benno N’Dulu, Oxford, CDE/Finance in a Time of Covid Webinar, “Macroeconomic policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
Thursday, October 8, 4:40pm-5:45pm. Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Webinar, Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study.
Tuesday, October 13, 9:00am. Andy Powell, InterAmerican Development Bank, CDE/Finance in a Time of Covid Webinar, “Macrofinancial responses to Covid in Latin America.”
Tuesday, October 20, 9:00am. Patrick Honohan, Trinity College, Dublin, CDE/Finance in a Time of Covid Webinar, “How to resolve a banking crisis: contrasting cases from Iceland to Lebanon.”
Wednesday, October 28, 9:00am. Eeshani Kandpal, World Bank, CDE Policy Webinar, “Expected and Unexpected Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers.”
Wednesday, November 11, 9:00am. Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics, CDE Policy Webinar, “Responding to the Learning Crisis: Education reforms for system-level change.”
Wednesday, November 18, 9:00am. Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), CDE Policy Webinar, “Beyond Short-Term Learning Gains: The Impact of Outsourcing Schools in Liberia after Three Years.”
Wednesday, November 18, 4:00pm-5:15 pm. Matthew Gibson, Williams College, Economics Department Webinar, Forecasts: Consumption, Production, and Behavioral Responses.
Wednesday, December 2, 9:00am. David Evans, Center for Global Development, CDE Policy Webinar, “What Health Workers Know: Implications for Health in Africa.”
Wednesday, December 9, 9:00am. Jessica Goldberg, University of Maryland, CDE Policy Webinar, “Leveraging social networks to fight communicable disease: the case of TB in India.”
Spring 2020
Thursday, February 20, 4:15pm. Wege Auditorium. Ashok Rai, Williams College, Faculty Lecture Series, “From Muslim to Christian: How Coffee Went Global”.
Friday, February 21, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Bernard Sheahan, Infrastructure Ideas, CDE Seminar, “The Changing World of Infrastructure – Some Policy Implications”.
Tuesday, February 25, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Katie Coffman, Harvard Business School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Stereotypes and Belief Updating.
Tuesday, March 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sebastian Tello-Trillo, University of Virginia, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Losing Public Health Insurance: TennCare Reform and Personal Financial Distress.
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Matt Chao, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Saving Face Through Preference Signaling and Obligation Avoidance.
Thursday, April 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar (Virtual), Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution.
Tuesday, May 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Lowell Taylor, Carnegie Mellon, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar (Virtual), The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility.
Fall 2019
Monday, September 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games.
Friday, September 20, 4:45pm-6:15pm. Griffin 6. Sandile Hlatshwayo, International Monetary Fund, CDE Seminar, The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption: A Big Data Approach.
Monday, September 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Treb Allen, Dartmouth College, Economics Department Seminar, The Geography of Path Dependence.
Thursday, October 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Daniel Schydlowsky, Boston Institute for Developing Economies, CDE Seminar, “Leveraging Financial Regulation for a Greener Finance”.
Thursday, October 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Jakina Debnam, Amherst, Economics Department Seminar, Peers and Persuasion Across Collegiate Social Networks.
Monday, October 21, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Michael Luca, Harvard Business School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit.
Wednesday, October 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Kenneth Kuttner, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, The Macroeconomic Effects of Inflation Shocks: Evidence from Greenbook Forecasts.
Wednesday, October 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Jon Bakija, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Responsiveness of Charitable Donations to Tax Incentives: Evidence from Panel Data on U.S. States in the Interwar Period.
Tuesday, November 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Chris Barrett, Cornell University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars / CDE Seminar, Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments.
Wednesday, November 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Stephen Sheppard, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Occupant Well-Being and Housing Values.
Monday, November 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Anna Aizer, Brown University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Labor Market Discrimination, the Racial Wage Gap and the Schooling Decisions of the Next Generation: Evidence from WWII.
Wednesday, November 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Peter Pedroni, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Title TBA.
Thursday, December 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Kaveh Majlesi, Lund University, Economics Department Seminar, Importing Political Polarization: The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure.
Spring 2019
Tuesday, February 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Pinar Keskin, Wellesley, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey.
Tuesday, February 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Owen Zidar, Princeton, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century and Top Wealth in the United States: New Methods and Implications for Wealth Taxation.
Wednesday, February 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Seeds of Learning: An Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game.
Thursday, February 28, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Martina Jasova, Barnard College, Economics Department Seminar, Rollover Risk and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Unconventional Central Bank Liquidity.
Wednesday, March 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Casey, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Growth, Unemployment, and Labor-Saving Technical Change.
Thursday, March 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Is Employment Polarization Informative About Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?.
Tuesday, March 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Frank Warnock, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Economics Department Seminar, Benchmarking Portfolio Flows.
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5, CDE Conference on Gender and Development.
Thursday, April 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Mary Evans, Claremont McKenna, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Hazards of Unwinding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Child Maltreatment.
Tuesday, April 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 129. William Spriggs, Howard University and AFL-CIO, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Political Economy of the Minimum Wage and Race”.
Wednesday, April 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Owen Thompson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era.
Tuesday, April 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Lee Badgett, UMass Amherst, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Impact of a Ban on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination on Federal Contractors.
Thursday, April 25, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Richard Klotz, Colgate, Economics Department Seminar, Correlated Pollutants, Avoidance, and Local Environmental Policy: Analyzing California’s Ocean-Going Vessel Fuel Rule.
Friday, April 26, 12:15pm-1:15pm. Williams Inn dining room. Vanessa Kerry, Harvard (Department of Global Health and Social Medicine), CDE Development Dialogue, “Partnerships, Diplomacy, and Sustainability: Redefining the Approach to Global Health”. Spaces are limited; please RSVP to keb1@williams.edu
Wednesday, May 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Stephen Sheppard, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Image Complexity and the Market Value of Art.
Fall 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Phelan, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Cournot Fire Sales.
Thursday, September 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. David McKenzie, World Bank, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar/ CDE Seminar, Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia.
Tuesday, October 2, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change.
Wednesday, October 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara Watson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion.
Thursday, October 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Seth Neumuller, Wellesley, Economics Department Seminar, Can Income Differences Explain the Racial Wealth Gap? A Quantitative Analysis.
Thursday, October 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ebonya Washington, Yale, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?
Tuesday, October 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Walker Hanlon, NYU Stern, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Inter-war Aircraft Industry.
Thursday, November 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Branko Milanovic, CUNY, CDE Seminar, “Recent trends in global income distribution and their political consequences.” (He will also include a few themes from his forthcoming book Capitalism, alone.)
Wednesday, November 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Melinda Petre, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Community College Student Decision Making in the Wake of the Great Recession.
Thursday, November 8, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Boris Gershman, American University, Economics Department Seminar, Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Two Continents.
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Tim Vogelsang, Michigan State, joint Economics/ Statistics Department Seminar, “Pitfalls of Interpolating/Imputing Regressors in Time Series Regressions”.
Tuesday, November 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Amelia (Molly) Hawkins ’08, U Michigan, Economics Department Seminar, Paying for Disability Insurance?: Firm cost sharing and its employment consequences.
Spring 2018
Friday, February 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Mary Hallward-Driemeir, World Bank Group, CDE Seminar, Trouble in the Making? The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development.
Friday, March 2, 12:15pm-1:15pm. CDE building. Ralph Chami, International Monetary Fund, CDE Development Dialogue, “What’s Different about Remittances”.
Tuesday, March 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Marianne Bitler, UC Davis, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Long Run Effects of Food Assistance and Early Human Capital Programs.
Wednesday, April 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Variances: Regulatory Discretion for Good or for Ill.
Thursday, April 5-Friday, April 6, CDE Conference: Technology and Financial Services: Finance for All?
Thursday, April 5, 8:00pm. Brooks–Rogers Recital Hall. Keynote Address. Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University, “Financial Technology, Inclusion, and Economic Development.”
Friday, April 6, 9:00am-. Griffin 3. The complete schedule is located here.
Tuesday, April 10, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. David Wilcox, Federal Reserve Board, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Okun Revisited: Who Benefits Most From a Strong Economy?
Tuesday, April 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Mikael Svensson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Women and the Poor are More Sensitive to Health Care Prices – Regression Discontinuity Evidence.
Thursday, April 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Ben Ho, Vassar College, Economics Department Seminar, Toward an understanding of the economics of apologies: evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment.
Tuesday, April 24, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Jean-Paul L’Huillier, Brandeis University, Economics Department Seminar, Technological Revolutions and the Three Great Slumps: A Medium-Run Analysis.
Thursday, April 26, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Retirement Saving and Retirement Security.” [The discussion will include findings from the following paper.]
Wednesday, May 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Stephen Sheppard, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Do Airbnb properties affect house prices?
Fall 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Fiona Burlig (’12), University of Chicago, Economics Department Seminar, Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification.
Monday, September 25, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Daniel Riera-Crichton, Bates College, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Non-linear distortion-based effects of tax changes on output: A worldwide narrative approach.
Friday, September 29, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 7. Andrew Powell, Inter-American Development Bank, CDE and Economics Department Seminar, “Routes to Growth in a New Trade World.”
Monday, October 2, 7:30pm-9:00pm. Griffin 6. Paul Pierson, UC Berkeley Political Science, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Who Governs Now? Political Influence in an Era of High Inequality (a closely-related background reading with a different title is available here).
Thursday, October 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 129. Stephanie Miner, Mayor of Syracuse, NY, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Need for Reflection in a Hot-Take Culture.
Wednesday, October 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Matthew Gibson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, (Bed)Time Inconsistency.
Thursday, October 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Ishani Tewari, Curry College, Economics Department Seminar, Durable Ownership, Time Allocation and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China’s ‘Home Appliances to the Countryside’ Rebate.
Friday, October 13, 12:00pm-1:00pm. Schapiro 309. Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University, Economics Brown Bag Seminar, Folklore.
Tuesday, October 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Martin Rotemberg (’08), New York University, Economics Department Seminar, Engines of Productivity Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing.
Thursday, October 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Petra Moser, NYU Stern, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Effects of Copyrights on Science.
Monday, October 23, 7:30pm. Paresky auditorium. Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar co-hosted with Environmental Studies program, “Global Climate Change Policy in the Age of Trump: What Can an Economist Possibly Have to Say About Climate Change?”
Friday, October 27, 12:15pm-1:15pm. CDE building. Hank Healey, RTI International, CDE Development Dialogue,“ Improving Education Systems through Purposeful Decentralization.”
Friday, November 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 7. Jim Berry, University of Delaware, CDE Seminar, “Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of ‘Teaching at the Right Level’ in India.”
Thursday, November 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country.
Thursday, November 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 241. Bradley Hardy, American University, Economics Department Seminar, The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the District of Columbia on Poverty and Income Dynamics.
Wednesday, December 6, 4:00pm-5:00pm. Griffin 6. Steven Nafziger, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia”.
Spring 2017
Thursday, February 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Caitlin Knowles Myers, Middlebury College, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “The Economic Analysis of Abortion Policy”.
Wednesday, March 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ashok Rai, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Designing Price Insurance for Commodity Farmers.
Monday, March 13, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Trevon Logan, Ohio State University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Do Black Politicians Matter?
Wednesday, April 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Yabin Wang, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, How Do Emerging Markets Respond to Macroeconomic Shocks? Dynamic Panel Evidence on the Effects of Disasters.
Friday, April 7, 12:10pm-1:05pm. CDE dining room. Rajeev Dehejia, NYU Wagner, CDE Development Dialogue, “From Local to Global: A Case Study in External Validity.”
Friday, April 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Rajeev Dehejia, NYU Wagner, CDE Seminar, The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply Over the Last Two Centuries.
Saturday April 8, Women in Economic Research Conference
Thursday, April 13-Friday, April 14, CDE Conference, Climate Change and Development Policy.
Tuesday, April 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 129. Kevin Shih, RPI, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice.
Monday, April 24, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Mark Watson, Princeton, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Disappointing Recovery of Output after 2009.
Wednesday, April 26, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Phelan, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Dimensionality and Disagreement: Asymptotic belief divergence in response to common information [based on joint work with Isaac Loh (’15)].
Wednesday, May 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Tara Watson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Promoting Preventative Health Care: The Impact of Incentives and Trust.
Thursday, May 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter, Vanderbilt University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Direct and Spillover Effects of Middle School Vaccination Requirements.
Fall 2016
Friday, September 16, 12:00pm-1:00pm. CDE dining room. Kate Ambler, International Food Policy Research Institute, CDE Development Dialogue, “Economics of the Family in Developing Countries.”
Friday, September 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Kate Ambler, International Food Policy Research Institute, CDE Seminar, “Cash Transfers and Crop Production in Senegal.”
Tuesday, September 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Heidi Williams, MIT, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, How Do Patents Affect Follow-on Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome (co-written with Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University).
Friday, September 30, 12:10pm-1:00pm. CDE dining room. Rob Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, CDE Development Dialogue, “Is Image Everything? Peer Social Concerns and Economic Development.”
Friday, September 30, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Rob Jensen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, CDE Seminar, “Information, Demand and the Growth of Firms.”
Wednesday, October 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Globalization and Executive Compensation.
Tuesday, October 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Why Do College Going Interventions Work?
Wednesday, October 26, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Steven Nafziger, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom.
Friday, October 28, 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Andrew Powell, Inter-American Development Bank. CDE Seminar, “The low growth, increasing debt conundrum: should developing countries “adjust” and if so, how?”
Tuesday, November 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Rachel Kranton, Duke, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Groupy and Non-Groupy Behavior: Deconstructing Bias in Social Preferences.
Monday, November 7, 12:15pm-1:10pm. CDE dining room. Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. CDE Development Dialogue, Smart Policy Design & Implementation.
Monday, November 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, CDE Seminar, Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools.
Wednesday, November 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Quamrul Ashraf, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, The Nature of Conflict.
Tuesday, November 15, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth, Economics Department Seminar, How Much Does Amnesty Stretch the Safety Net? Evidence from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
Tuesday, November 29, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Quantitative Easing in the 1930s.
Wednesday, December 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Peter Pedroni, Williams College and Diala Al Masri, CDE alum, Economics Department Seminar, “Nonlinearities in Financial Development: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful.”
Spring 2016
Thursday, February 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors.
Wednesday, February 17, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Phelan, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Correlated Default and Financial Intermediation.
Tuesday, March 8, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Schapiro 129. Jennifer Doleac, University of Virginia, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Keep the Kids Inside? Juvenile Curfews and Urban Gun Violence.
Wednesday, March 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. John Parman, The College of William & Mary and NBER, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Gender and Intergenerational Mobility: Using Health Outcomes to Compare Intergenerational Mobility Across Gender and Over Time.
Wednesday, April 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, (Im)patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others.
Thursday, April 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Bernhard Music Center. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University and Earth Institute (opening presentation); Angus Deaton, Princeton University; John Hoddinott, Cornell University; Susan Godlonton, Williams College; Oliver Babson, Gates Foundation (panel discussion), CDE Global Poverty Conference, “Tackling Global Poverty: evaluation technologies”.
Thursday, April 7, 8:00pm. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Bernhard Music Center. Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate, Keynote Address of CDE Global Poverty Conference: “Tackling Global Poverty”.
Friday, April 8, 9:00am-4:00pm. Griffin 3. CDE Global Poverty Conference: “Tackling Global Poverty”.
9:00am-10:30am. Fred Ssewamala, Columbia University; Jessica Leight, Williams College; Oliver Babson, Gates Foundation; Diego Angemi, UNICEF, “Tackling Global Poverty: Innovative Approaches”.
11:00am-12:30pm. John Hoddinott, Cornell University; Lucie Cluver, Oxford University (videoconference); Frank De Giovanni, Ford Foundation; Susan Godlonton, Williams College, “Tackling Global Poverty: evidence-building technologies”.
2:00pm-4:00pm. Angus Deaton, Princeton University; Frank De Giovanni, Ford Foundation; Fred Ssewamala, Columbia University; Jessica Leight, Williams College; Jason Wolfe, USAID; Tara Watson, Williams College and US Treasury, “Tackling Global Poverty: building better evidence for the future”.
Monday, April 11, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Tatiana Homonoff, Cornell University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Is there an Nth of the Month Effect? The Timing of SNAP Issuance, Food Expenditures, and Grocery Prices.
Wednesday, April 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 7. Laura Kawano, U.S. Department of Treasury, Economics Department Seminar, The Long Term Effects of Financial Aid: Evidence from the Cal Grant.
Fall 2015
Thursday, September 24, 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Ralph Chami, International Monetary Fund, CDE Seminar, What’s it like to work on a Fragile State?
Friday, September 25, 12:30pm-1:30pm. CDE building. Ralph Chami, International Monetary Fund, Development Dialogue, “Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances”.
Thursday, October 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Russell Weinstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Economics Department Seminar, Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting.
Tuesday, October 6, 12:30pm-1:30pm. CDE building. Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Development Dialogue, “Innovation in Africa: The Case of Mobile Money.”
Tuesday, October 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics Department Seminar, The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa.
Tuesday, October 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Linda Tesar, University of Michigan, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Austerity in the aftermath of the Great Recession.”
Tuesday, October 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Erick Gong, Middlebury College, Economics Department Seminar, Mental Accounting and Mobile Banking: Can labeling an MPESA account increase savings?
Thursday, October 29, 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Brian Levy, Johns Hopkins SAIS, CDE Seminar, Governance and Economic Development: Working with the Grain.
Tuesday, November 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Morris Davis, Rutgers Business School, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Neighborhood Choices and Neighborhood Effects.
Thursday, November 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ted O’Donoghue, Cornell University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Bracketing and Risk Preferences: Identification and Estimation in Field Data.”
Thursday, November 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank, CDE Seminar, Rethinking Productive Development.
Friday, November 20, 12:30pm-1:30pm. CDE building. Margaret Miller, World Bank, Development Dialogue, “Entertainment Education – Why the spread of TV to nearly 2 billion households may not be a bad thing.”
Tuesday, December 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Michael Levere, University of California, San Diego, Economics Department Seminar, The Labor Market Consequences of Receiving Disability Benefits During Childhood.
Thursday, December 3, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ina Ganguli, UMass Amherst, Economics Department Seminar, Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears.
Winter and Spring 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2:45pm. Griffin 3. CDE fellows Micheal Kimbi (Cameroon), Balthazar Nganikiye (Burundi), Belisti Kebie (Ethiopia), Albino John Ajack (South Sudan), CDE Country Talks and Discussion.
Tuesday, January 27, 2:45pm. Griffin 3. CDE fellows Diala AlMasri (Lebanon), Sameer Khailah (Yemen), Mirjana Popovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), CDE Country Talks and Discussion.
Thursday, February 19, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Karen Dynan, U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist, Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Enhancing Economic Opportunity for the Middle Class.
Wednesday, February 25, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. William Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, English Proficiency and Labor Market Performance in the Economics Profession.
Thursday, February 26, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College, Economics Department Seminar, The long run effects of labor migration on human capital formation in communities of origin (joint work with Martine Mariotti at the Australian National University).
Friday, February 27, 12:15pm. CDE Building. Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College, Development Dialogue, Learning about pathways out of poverty using historical data: Measuring the long run impacts of labor migration on economic outcomes in communities of origin.
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Phelan, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Securitization, Leverage, Tranching, and International Capital Flows (by Greg Phelan and Alexis Akira Toda).
Thursday, March 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. James Walker, Indiana University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Externalities in appropriation: Responses to probabilistic losses (by Esther Blanco, Tobias Haller and James Walker).
Friday, March 13, 12:15pm-1:15pm. CDE Building. Stephen Golub, Swarthmore College, Development Dialogue, Informal Cross-Border Trade and Smuggling in Africa.
Friday, April 10, 12:15pm-1:15pm. CDE Building. Nemat Bizhan, Princeton University, Development Dialogue, Development in Difficult Contexts: Afghanistan after the Fall of the Taliban.
Wednesday, April 15, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Susan Godlonton, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from Malawi (by Susan Godlonton and Edward Okeke).
Monday, April 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “The Economics of Student Loans: A Conversation with Sue Dynarski.”
Thursday, April 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Mead Over, Center for Global Development, CDE Seminar, “Understanding and improving the efficiency of aid-funded AIDS treatment”.
Monday, April 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Alexis Toda, University of California, San Diego, Economics Department Seminar, Growth, Welfare, and Inequality under Basic Income/Flat Tax.
Tuesday, April 28, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Phil Levine, Wellesley College, Economics Department Seminar, Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street.
Friday, May 1, 4:30pm-5:45pm. Griffin 6. Gonca Senel, Bowdoin College, CDE Seminar, “Immigration, Endogenous Technology Choice and Welfare Analysis”.
Tuesday, May 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Ana Fostel, George Washington University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, “Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment”.
Wednesday, May 6, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, When Do Punishment Institutions Work?
Fall 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. William Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, The Composition of Exports and Human Capital Acquisition.
Friday, September 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Albert Saiz, MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Economics Department Seminar, Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences in Spain: New Ghettos.
Monday, September 29, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Beggar-thy-Neighbor Effects of Exchange Rates? A Study of the Renminbi.
Tuesday, September 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm. CDE Dining Room. Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund, Development Dialogue, Monetary Transmission in Developing Countries.
Wednesday, October 1, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 7. Ashok Rai, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Sorting Through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments from Colombia.
Thursday, October 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Anandi Mani, University of Warwick, Economics Department Seminar, Sex Workers, Stigma and Self-Belief: Evidence from a Psychological Training Program in India.
Friday, October 17, 2:30pm-5:15pm. Griffin 3. CDE Conference on Historical Persistence in Comparative Development.
2:45pm-3:30pm. Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University, How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?; Fertility and Modernity
3:30pm-4:15pm. Christian Dippel, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence from Native American Reservations
4:30pm-5:15pm. James Fenske, Oxford University, Climate and the Slave Trade
Friday, October 17, 8:00pm. Griffin 3. CDE Conference on Historical Persistence in Comparative Development. David Weil, Brown University, Conference Keynote Address: The Global Spatial Distribution of Population and Economic Activity: Effects of Nature, History, and Agglomeration.
Saturday, October 18, 9:00am-4:00pm. Griffin 3. CDE Conference on Historical Persistence in Comparative Development.
9:00am-9:45am. William Maloney, World Bank and Universidad de los Andes, Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Development in the Americas.
9:45am-10:30am. Marcella Alsan, Stanford Medical School, The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development.
10:45am-11:30am. Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston, Malthusian Dynamics and the Rise of Poor Megacities.
11:30am-12:15pm. Saumitra Jha, Stanford Graduate School of Business, “Unfinished Business”: Historic Complementarities, Political Competition, and Ethnic Violence in Gujarat.
1:30pm-2:15pm. Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
2:15pm-3:00pm. Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University, The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa.
3:15pm-4:00pm. Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Intergenerational Mobility and Institutional Change in 20th Century China.
Wednesday, October 22, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 7. Jessica Leight, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Maternal Bargaining Power, Parental Compensation and Non-cognitive Skills in Rural China.
Thursday, October 23, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Michael Klein, Tufts University, Economics Department Seminar, Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of monetary policy autonomy.
Monday, October 27, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Paul Cheshire, London School of Economics, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Land Use Regulation and Productivity – Land Matters: Evidence From a UK Supermarket Chain.
Wednesday, October 29, 8:00pm. Griffin 3. Gary Kleiman, World Bank, CDE Seminar, Climate-Smart Development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change.
Wednesday, November 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Greg Phelan, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Financial Innovation and Global Imbalances.
Friday, November 7, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Dave Evans, World Bank, joint CDE-Economics Department Seminar, The Permanent Input Hypothesis: The Case of Textbooks and (No) Student Learning in Sierra Leone.
Thursday, November 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Jim Hines, University of Michigan, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Random Policies in Federations.
Tuesday, December 9, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Peter Pedroni, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, “Panel SVARs Part II: Applications from Recent Empirical Papers”.
Winter and Spring 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. CDE classroom. Shawn Powers, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, CDE Seminar, The Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Randomized Evaluation of Policy in Developing Countries.
Friday, February 21. 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida. CDE Seminar. Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes.
Thursday, February 27. 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Douglas Elmendorf, Congressional Budget Office. Political Economy Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Approaches to Restraining Federal Health Care Spending.
Monday, March 3. 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Dina Pomeranz, Harvard Business School. CDE Seminar. Tax Me if You Can: Evidence on Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion Substitution.
Wednesday, March 5, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Tara Watson, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice.
Friday, March 7. Noon-1:00pm. CDE Dining Room. Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College. Development Dialogue. Targeting Child Malnutrition through Performance Incentives to Caregivers.
Monday, March 10, 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Sarah Jacobson, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Discovered Preferences for Risky and Non-Risky Goods.
Thursday, March 13. 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Mel Stephens, University of Michigan. Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data.
Tuesday, April 8. 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Eduardo Lora, former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank. CDE Seminar. More than Revenue: Taxation as a Development Tool.
Friday, April 11. 12:15pm-1:15pm. Schapiro 309. Ahmed Rahman, U.S. Naval Academy. Economics Brown Bag Lunch Seminar. Ex Tridenti Mercatus? – Sea-Power and Maritime Trade in the Age of Globalization.
[Canceled, will be re-scheduled later] Brianna Heggeseth, Williams College Statistics Department. Searching for Development Patterns.
Thursday, April 17. 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Leah Platt Boustan, UCLA. Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets.
Thursday, April 24. 4:00pm-5:30pm. CDE classroom. Maria Soledad Martinez-Peria, The World Bank. CDE Seminar. Foreign Bank Subsidiaries’ Default Risk: What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates from their Parents?
Friday, April 25. Noon-1:00pm. CDE Dining Room. Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School. Development Dialogue. Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation: How to Change Not What Policies or Organizations Look Like but Rather What They Do.
Friday, April 25. 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School. CDE Seminar. Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Growth: Understanding Growth Transitions.
Thursday, May 1. 4:00pm-5:30pm. Griffin 6. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota. Implementing the Optimal Provision of Ecosystem Services.
Friday, May 2. 12:15pm-1:15pm. Schapiro 309. Economics Brown Bag Lunch Seminar. Theresa Gutbertlet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Fall 2013
Friday, September 27, Noon. CDE. Development Dialogue. Stijn Claessens, International Monetary Fund. The IMF’s Role in Crisis Management.
Friday, September 27, 4:30pm – 6:00pm. Griffin 6. CDE Seminar. Stijn Claessens, International Monetary Fund. Macroprudential Policies to Mitigate Financial System Vulnerabilities.
Wednesday, October 2, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Economics Department Seminar. Jessica Leight, Williams College. Grain into Gold? The Impact of Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Investment and Industrialization in China.
Wednesday, October 2, 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Thompson Biology Room 112. Panel Discussion. Ashok Rai (Williams College Economics Department), Todd Holland (Zilkha Center) and Zoe Grueskin (student). Williams and Fossil Fuels: Consumption and Investment.
Thursday, October 3, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Luca Ricci, International Monetary Fund. International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters.
Saturday, October 5, 11:00am – noon. Griffin 3. CDE Seminar. David Cole, economist with long experience working with Korea and former Harvard Professor. Korea Transformed: 1952-2012.
Wednesday, October 16, 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Hollander 241. History and Economics Seminar. Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics. The Merchant Firm in Indian History.
Thursday October 17 – Friday October 18. CDE Conference on Urbanization and Development. (Link to conference poster).
Thursday, October 17, 8:00pm, ’62 Center. Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania. Questions for Policy and Understanding of Urban Systems: the Case of Colombia.
Friday, October 18, 9:00am, Griffin 3. Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University.Urbanization, Property Rights and Entrepreneurship.
Friday, October 18, 10:00am, Griffin 3. Harris Selod, The World Bank. Land Markets, Property Rights, and City Structure in West African Cities.
Friday, October 18, 11:00am, Griffin 3. Stephen Malpezzi, University of Wisconsin. The Spatial Distribution of Population in 54 World Cities: The Role of Markets, Planning, and Topography.
Friday, October 18, 1:15pm, Griffin 3. Solomon Hsiang, Princeton University/UC Berkeley. Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict.
Friday, October 18, 2:15pm, Griffin 3. Adam Storeygard, Tufts University.Climate Change and Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Friday, October 18, 3:15pm, Griffin 3. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University.Transportation and Urban Growth in Chinese Cities.
Friday, October 18, 4:30pm, Griffin 3. Panel Discussion and Wrap-Up. Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania; Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University; Stephen Sheppard, Williams College; moderated by Yong Suk Lee, Williams College.
Wednesday, October 23, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Economics Department Seminar. Peter Pedroni, Williams College. Structural Panel VARs.
Friday, October 25, 12:30pm – 1:30pm. Schapiro 309. Economics Department Brown Bag Lunch. Matt Jaremski, Colgate University. American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War.
Monday, October 28, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. James X. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame. Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s.
Wednesday, October 30, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Economics Department Seminar.Yong Lee, Williams College. Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, and Urban Growth.
Friday, November 8, Noon. CDE. Development Dialogue. Mike Samson, Williams College and Economic Policy Research Institute. The Role of Independent Research Institutes in the Policy Process in Developing Countries.
Monday, November 11, 7:30pm – 9:00pm. Griffin 3. Public Lecture. Joe Peek, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis.
Friday, November 15, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. CDE. CDE Seminar. Susan Godlonton, International Food Policy Research Center and Williams College. The Demand for Male Circumcision.
Monday, November 18, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Christopher Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions: The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis.
Wednesday, November 20, 12:30pm-1:30pm. Hollander 317. Economics Department “Brown Bag Lunch.” Yong Lee, Williams College. Sanctions and North Korean Development.
Thursday, November 21, time TBA. Griffin 3. History and Economics Public Lecture. Harold James, Princeton University. The Euro and its Flaws.
Wednesday, December 4, 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Griffin 6. Economics Department Seminar. Lucie Schmidt and David Love, Williams College. Immigrants, Social Security, and the Adequacy of Wealth.
Friday, December 6, Noon-1:00pm, Schaprio 309. Economics Brown Bag Lunch. Tara Watson, Williams College. Protocols for Replicability of Student Empirical Projects.
Winter & Spring 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 4:00PM, CDE. Shawn Powers, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, CDE Seminar, The Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Randomized Evaluation of Policy in Developing Countries.
Friday, February 8, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE. The 500 Million Challenge: How Finance Can Unlock the Power of the World’s Agricultural Smallholders. Liam Brody, Senior Vice President of Value Chain Relations and Communications at Root Capital.
[Canceled due to Weather] Friday, March 8, 4:00PM, CDE. David Cole. Korea Transformed: 1952-2012.
Monday March 11, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. George Korniotis, University of Miami. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Income Hedging and Portfolio Decisions.
Thursdsay, March 14, 4:15PM, Wege Auditorium. Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College. Insuring the Uninsured Before and After the Affordable Care Act.
Monday, April 1, 4:00PM, CDE. Petia Topalova, International Monetary Fund and Harvard University. CDE Seminar. The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies.
Thursday, April 4, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Martin Gaynor, Carnegie-Mellon University. Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service.
Wednesday, April 10, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Jon Bakija and William Gentry, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Capital Gains Taxes and Realizations: Evidence from a Long Panel of State-Level Data.
Thursday, April 11, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Henry Schneider, Cornell University. Economics Department Seminar. Checklists for Economic Settings.
Friday, April 12, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE. Stephan Klasen, University of Goettingen. Millennium Development Goals post-2015: A Modest Proposal.
Wednedsay, April 17, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Lucie Schmidt, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Growth in the Supplemental Security Income Program for Children: The Role of Local Jurisdictions and Fiscal Incentives. (joint with Julie Cullen)
Thursday, April 18, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Henry Farber, Princeton University, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market.
Friday, April 19, Noon, Schapiro 309. Economics Department Seminar. Jane Leber Herr, National Bureau of Economic Research. Understanding the Mechanism of the Return to Delayed First Birth.
[Cancelled due to Illness] Tuesday, April 30, 4:00PM, CDE. Dina Pomeranz, Harvard Business School. CDE Seminar. No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax.
Wednesday, May 1, 4:00PM, Griffin 7. Anand Swamy, Williams College. Economics Department Seminar. Protecting the Borrower: An Experiment in Colonial India. (joint with Latika Chaudhary)
Tuesday, May 7, 4:00PM, Griffin 6. Dietrich Earnhart, University of Kansas. Economics Department Seminar. Effect of Enforcement Approach on Environmental Management: Coercive vs. Cooperative Enforcement.
Fall 2012
Thursday, September 13, 4:00PM, CDE — Nancy Birdsall , Williams College and Center for Global Development & Jerry Caprio, Williams College, CDE Seminar. The Global Financial Crisis and the Development Agenda.
Wednesday, September 19, 4:00PM, Schapiro Hall 129 — Ken Kuttner, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on House Prices and Credit.
Friday, September 21, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego. Introducing a Radical New Way to Give: Directly.
Tuesday, September 25, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. India and the Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison of GDP per Capita, 1600-1871.
Thursday, September 27, and Friday September 28, ’62 Center Main Stage. Conference on The Future of the World Bank and the IMF: Redesign For a New (and Old) World, sponsored by the Williams College Center for Development Economics. All events listed for September 27 and 28 below (and marked with an asterisk *) are part of this conference.
Thursday, September 27, 4:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development and Williams College; Ishrat Husain, Former Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan; and Robert Wade, London School of Economics; moderated by Jerry Caprio, Williams College. What Kind of World Bank in the 21st Century? .*
Thursday, September 27, 8:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — James Robinson, Harvard University. Why Nations Fail.*
Friday, September 28, 8:30AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel Discussion with: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University; Atish R. Ghosh, International Monetary Fund; James Hanson, formerly World Bank; and Garry Schinasi, formerly International Monetary Fund. Moderated by Peter Montiel, Williams College. The Global Financial Architecture and Financial Stability: What Works?.*
Friday, September 28, 9:45AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Philip Lane, Trinity College (Dublin); Guillermo Ortiz, President, Banorte and former Governor, Banco Central de Mexico; and Ted Truman, The Peterson Institute for International Economics and Williams College. Moderated by Kenneth Kuttner, Williams College. The Role of a Lender of Last Resort.*
Friday, September 28, 11:35AM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Olivier Blanchard, International Monetary Fund; Michael Kremer, Harvard University; and Luis Serven, The World Bank. Moderated by Peter Pedroni, Williams College. The Role of Research in the Bank and the Fund.*
Friday, September 28, 1:45PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Ken Chomitz, The World Bank; Matt Kotchen, Yale University; Andrew Steer, President, World Resources Institute, formerly Special Envoy for Climate Change, The World Bank. Moderated by Sarah Jacobson, Williams College. Environment and Development?.*
Friday, September 28, 3:00PM, ’62 Center Main Stage — Panel discussion with: Uri Dadush, The Carnegie Foundation and Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University. Moderated by Ashok Rai, Williams College. The Rise of Emerging Markets and the International Financial Institutions.*
Tuesday, October 16, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar. On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough.
Thursday, October 18, 7:00PM, Clark Hall Room 105 — Jerry Caprio, Williams College. More than Medicare, Social Security, Even War: the Cost of Financial Misregulation.
Friday, October 19, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Sajeda Amin, Population Council, Gender-Based Violence.
Wednesday, October 24, 4:00PM, Griffin 7 — Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity.
Wednesday, October 31, 12:30PM, Griffin 6 — Naomi Feldman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Economics Department Seminar. The Impact of Tax Exclusive and Inclusive Prices on Demand.
Friday, November 2, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — John Briscoe, Harvard University (and former Senior Water Advisor at the World Bank). CDE Seminar. The Challenge of Water Security in a Changing World. (Click here to read an interview with John Briscoe addressing the topic of his talk).
Friday, November 9, Development Dialogue, Noon, CDE — Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development and Williams College. How to Manage Easy Oil Money: Options and a New Idea?
Tuesday, November 13, 4:00PM, CDE — Nancy Birdsall, Williams College and Center for Global Development, CDE seminar. Institution Building through Cash on Delivery Aid.
Wednesday, November 14, 4:00PM, Griffin 7– Will Olney, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. The Impact of Corruption on Exporting.
Wednesday, November 28, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Pierre-Richard Agenor, University of Manchester, joint Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar. Public Capital, Growth and Welfare.
Wednesday, December 5 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — Tanseli Savaser, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar. Managerial Stock Options and Firm Risk: The Impact of Regulatory Changes.
Spring 2012
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.
Fall 2011
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.
Spring 2011
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.
Fall 2010
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.
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