EDS | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Economic Development Seminar

Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI

Oct 25, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Communication Frictions and Knowledge Transfers: Evidence from FDI by Louise Guillouet, Rocco Macchiavello, Amit Khandelwal, Matthieu Teachout

Economic Development Seminar

Can Digital Loans Deliver?

Oct 18, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take Up and Impacts of Digital Loans in Kenya by Prashant Bharadwaj, William Jack, Tavneet Suri

Economic Development Seminar

Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

Oct 11, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Sara Lowes, Bocconi University on "Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt".

Economic Development Seminar

Production bottleneck effects and role of market power: Evidence from India's dereservation reform

Oct 4, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Vybhavi Balasundharam, PhD Talk Production bottleneck effects and the role of market power: Evidence from India's dereservation reform

Economic Development Seminar

How do beliefs and feedback affect decision making among students? Evidence from a field experiment

Sep 6, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

EDS, PhD Talk with Catalina Franco Buitrago on how do beliefs and feedback affect decision making among students? Evidence from a field experiment.

Economic Development Seminar

Early Life Adversity, Biological Adaptation, and Human Capital

Mar 8, 2018, 4:00-5:30 am EST

3240 Weill

Key words: human capital production, child development, cognition, malaria, eradication, immunity, adaptive responses, complementarity

Economic Development Seminar

Experimental Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification

Nov 16, 2017, 4:00-6:00 pm EST

Weill 3240

Economic Development Seminar

Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial

Nov 2, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill

Economic Development Seminar

Working With Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea In Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Sep 28, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill

Economic Development Seminar

Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools

Sep 21, 2017, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Weill Hall 3240

Economic Development Seminar

Economic Development Seminar, Marlous van Waijenburg

Sep 12, 2017, 2:30-4:00 pm EDT

201 Lorch

Economic Development Seminar

Supreet Kaur, University of California - Berkeley

Apr 6, 2018, 1:00-2:30 pm EDT

201 Lorch Hall

Economic Development Seminar presents Supreet Kaur (UC-Berkeley). Supreet will present "Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply" in the joint labor/development seminar on Friday, April 6, 1-2:30PM in Lorch 201.

Economic Development Seminar

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

Apr 10, 2018, 2:30-4:30 pm EDT

201 Lorch Hall

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University will present Swords into Bank Shares: Financial Innovations and Innovators in Mitigating Political Violence in EDS Seminar on Tuesday, April 10 at 2:30pm in 201 Lorch Hall.

Economic Development Seminar

Welfare Implications of Political Patronage in Electricity

Sep 20, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

3240 Weill Hall

Meera Mahadevan, EDS PhD Talk on Welfare Implications of Political Patronage in Electricity

Economic Development Seminar

Having It at Hand: How Small Search Frictions Impact Bureaucratic Efficiency

Dec 6, 2018, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

3240 Weill Hall

Yususf Neggers will discuss about How Small Search Frictions Impact Bureaucratic Efficiency.