Economic Development Seminar

The Economic Development Seminar is co-sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Economics Department (sponsored in part by a generous gift from Jay and Beth Rakow) of the University of Michigan. All seminars meet on Thursdays at 3240 Weill Hall, from 4:00–5:30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.

We have concluded our seminars for the Winter 2013 term.

Winter Semester, 2013

03/14	Bertil Tungodden, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
03/29	Oriana Bandiera, Department of Economics, London School of Economics (joint with Labor and Business Economics, 201 Lorch Hall, 2:00 p.m.)
04/11	Shawn Cole, Finance Unit, Harvard Business School "The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension" (with A. Nilesh Fernando)

Fall Semester, 2012

09/13	Jessica Hoel, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics "Heterogeneous Households: Laboratory Evidence of the Ecological Fallacy in Tests of Models of the Household"
09/20	Emily Beam, PhD Candidate, Gerald R. School of Public Policy and Department of Economics
09/27	Susie Godlonton, PhD Candidate, Gerald R. School of Public Policy and Department of Economics "Employment Risk and Performance"
10/04	Kate Ambler, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics "Don't Tell on Me: Experimental Evidence of Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households"
10/11	Annika Mueller, Harvard University "In the Public Eye: Distributional Choices in Rural Malawi under Perfect and Imperfect Information"
10/18	Cancelled - Leigh Linden, The University of Texas at Austin
11/1	Brian Min, University of Michigan "Distributing Power: Evidence on Public Goods Provision by Satellite"
11/6	Suresh Naidu, Columbia University "When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South" (joint with Economic History Workshop, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m., 201 Lorch)
11/15	Melissa Dell, MIT "Path dependence in development: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution" (joint with Economic History Workshop)
11/29	Eliana La Ferrara, Università Bocconi "Conflict, Climate and Cells: A disaggregated analysis" (joint with M. Harari)
12/6	Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University "Incentives to Teach Badly: After-School Tutoring in Developing Countries"

Previous seminars:

Winter Semester, 2012

03/08	Katja Maria Kaufmann, Università Bocconi "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil"
03/15	Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University "Do Basic Savings Accounts Help the Poor to Save? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nepal"
03/22	Rema Hanna, Harvard University "Up in Smoke: The Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves in the Presence of Household Behavior" (with E. Duflo and M. Greenstone)
03/29	Emily Oster, University of Chicago "Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India"
04/12	Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles "Economic Integration and Structural Change"
04/13	Imran Rasul, University College London Leaders and Followers: A Case Study of Papal Influences on Fertility Preferences and Behavior Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics 2:00-3:30 p.m., 201 Lorch Hall, joint with ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics

Fall Semester, 2011

09/08	Claudio Ferraz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro "Does Oil Make Leaders Unaccountable? Evidence from Brazil's Offshore Oil Boom" (with Joana Monteiro)
09/15	Raj Arunachalam, University of Michigan "Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk" (with Manisha Shah)
09/22	Slesh Shrestha, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan "Human Capital Responses to Skilled Migration Prospects: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nepal"
10/06	Martina Björkman, Università Bocconi, Milan "Community Based Monitoring: Experimental Evidence on Design and Long Run Impact"
10/13	Giacomo De Giorgi, Stanford University "The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers"
10/20	Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College "Investing in schooling in Chile: The role of information about financial aid for higher education"
10/27	Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College "Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity, Commitment, and Strategic Savings: Theory and Evidence from Kenya" Joint Seminar with Labor Economics
11/03	Charles Sprenger, Stanford University "Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom"
11/10	Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development "The effects of international migration on Filipino households: Evidence from a policy discontinuity"
11/17	Manuela Angelucci, University of Michigan "Migration and credit constraints: evidence from Mexico"
12/01	Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University "Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption" (with Alessandro Tarozzi)
12/08	Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San Andrés "Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide" (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel) Joint Seminar with Business Economics and International Economics

Winter Semester, 2011

03/10	Habiba Djebbari, University Laval "Cash transfers and children's living arrangements in South Africa"
03/17	Elodie Djemai, University of Michigan "HIV and Access to Road"
03/24	Isaac Mbiti, Southern Methodist University "Elite Secondary Schools and Student Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya"
03/31	EDTS will not meet due to the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
04/07	Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town Title: TBA
04/14	Berk Özler, World Bank "Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment"

Fall Semester, 2010

09/16	Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley "Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations" (with Gérard Roland)
09/23	Andrew Foster, Brown University "Direct and Indirect Effects of Voluntary Certification: Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program"
10/08	Rachel Griffith, University College London, IFS "Corporate Taxes and the Location of Intellectual Property" (with Helen Miller and Martin O'Connell) Joint with Business Economics and Public Policy, 2:00-3:30 pm, Ross School of Business E1550
10/14	Jessica Goldberg, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan "Kwacha Gonna Do? Experimental Evidence about Labor Supply in Rural Malawi"
10/28	Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz "Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya" (with Pascaline Dupas)
11/04	Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University "Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses" (with Cristian Pop-Eleches)
11/11	Ann Harrison, University of California, Berkeley CANCELLED Joint with Business Economics and Public Policy
11/18	David McKenzie, World Bank "When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana" (with Marcel Fafchamps, Simon Quinn, and Christopher Woodruff)
12/02	Harsha Thirumurthy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "When are reminders for behavior modification effective?  Experimental evidence from the use of text messages to improve medication adherence"

Winter Semester, 2010

03/11	Marcus Goldstein, World Bank "The effects of health worker absence:  Evidence from HIV testing in Kenya"
03/25	Han Kim, University of Michigan "CEO Power and Sarbanes-Oxley Act"
04/01	Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin "Vote-Buying and Reciprocity"
04/08	Rachel Griffith, Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London "Taxes and the Location of Innovative Activity" (cosponsored with Business Economics) ***POSTPONED***
04/15	Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley "Are the Markets Afraid of Kim Jong Il?"

Fall Semester, 2009

09/17	Brian Kovak, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, U of M “Regional Labor Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization” (joint with International Economics, 11:40 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at 201 Lorch Hall)
09/21	Sebastian Galiani, Washington University “Military Service and Crime” (joint with Public Finance, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at Lorch Hall)
10/01	Albert Park, Oxford University “Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms”
10/08	Dean Yang, University of Michigan “Remittances and the Problem of Control:A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador”
10/15	Mariano Bosch, University of Alicante “Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico. Revisiting the Evidence” (joint with Business Economics)
10/22	Han Kim, University of Michigan ***POSTPONED to March 25, 2010*** “Corporate Governance Reforms around the World”
10/29	Richard Steckel and Dongwoo Yoo, Ohio State University “Institutions and Economic Development in Asia” (joint with Economic History) Supplementary tables:
11/05	Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School “Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India”
11/10	Bob Margo, Boston University “Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60” (joint with Economic History, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at 201 Lorch Hall)
11/19	Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston “The Agricultural Basis of Comparative Development” (joint with International Economics, 11:40 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at 201 Lorch Hall)
12/01	Rick Hornbeck, Harvard University Andrew W. Marcus Seminar in Applied Microeconomics “The American Dust Bowl:  Enduring Impacts and Responses” (joint with Economic History, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at 201Lorch Hall)
12/10	Lori Beaman, Northwestern University “Who gets the job referral? Evidence from a social networks experiment”

Winter Semester, 2009

3/13	Chang-Tai Hsieh (Berkeley), joint with International
3/27	David Lam
4/3	Manuela Angelucci (Arizona), joint with Labor (in EDTS time slot)
4/10	Duncan Thomas
4/17	Carmen Pages-Sierra

Fall Semester, 2008

09/11	Joe Kaboski, Ohio State “A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative,”
09/18	Xavier Gine, World Bank “Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India”
09/25	Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics “Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India”, joint with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Esther Duflo (MIT), and Jeanne LaFortune (Maryland)
10/02	Xinzheng Shi, U of M PhD Student Does intra-household flypaper effect exist? Evidence from education fee reduction reform in rural China
10/09	Yao Lu, U of M PhD Student “Why Do Foreign Investors ‘Cherry Pick’ in Emerging Markets?”
10/16	Warren Whatley, joint with history; U of M “Guns-For-Slaves: The 18th Century British Slave Trade in Africa.”
10/23	Frank McIntyre, Brigham Young University "An Empirical Model of Illegal Work"
10/30	Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, University of Virginia “Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation”
11/06	Anne Case, Princeton (joint with Population Studies) “Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa”
11/13	Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University (joint with Business Economics and the International series)
11/20	Sujarta Visaria, Boston University “The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Dept Recovery Tribunals”
12/04	Jeff Williamson, Harvard (joint with history) “Ancient Inequality”
12/09	Hoyt Bleakley, Chicago (Joint with history; Note: meets Tuesday, 4:00-5:30, Lorch 215)

Fall Semester, 2007

9/14	Can rural electrification jump-start employment? Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Taryn Dinkelman (U-M job market candidate) - joint with Labor (in Labor time slot)
09/20	Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households in the Nineties. Nzinga Broussard (U-M job market candidate)
09/27	NO SEMINAR
10/04	Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market. Asim Khwaja, (Kennedy School of Business, Harvard) - faculty in charge: Brian Jacob
10/11	Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market. Martin Wittenberg (UCT) - faculty in charge: David Lam
10/18	The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well-being in South Africa. A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM) - faculty in charge: Dean Yang
10/25	Intra-Firm Trade. Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth) - joint with BE/International (in EDTS time slot) - faculty in charge: Jagadeesh Sivadasan (Marcus Seminar, special addition)
11/1	Yao Lu (U-M job market candidate)
11/8	David Mckenzie (World Bank) - faculty in charge: Dean Yang
11/15	Jim Robinson (Harvard) - faculty in charge: Jim Levinsohn
11/30	Michael Kremer (Harvard) - joint with Applied Economics (in Applied Econ Friday time slot) (Marcus Seminar) - faculty in charge: Dean Yang
12/6	Mark Rosenzweig (Yale) - joint with Labor (in EDTS time slot) - faculty in charge: Jim Levinsohn (Marcus Seminar)
12/13	Rose Chan (U-M job market candidate) Room changed to Weill Hall 5240

Winter Semester, 2007

03/08	Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Jan Svejnar, University of Michigan: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar and Business Economics Seminar series)
03/15	Quality, Trade and the Moving Windows: Competitiveness and the Globalization Process John Sutton, London School of Economics: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar and Business Economics Seminar series)
03/22	What Should the Developing Countries Do in the Context of the Current Impasse of the Doha Round? Alan Deardorff and Bob Stern, University of Michigan: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar)
03/29	The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh Ben Olken, Harvard University: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
04/05	TBD: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
04/12	“The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and Returns to Schooling in China” Albert Park, University of Michigan: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room
04/19	“The de Soto Effect: Markets, Networks, and the Polictical Economy of Property Rights ” Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room

Fall Semester, 2006

09/08	Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania Erica Field, Harvard University: 201 Lorch Hall, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (co-sponsored with the Labor Seminar series)
09/14	The Productivity Effects of Services Liberalization Beata Javorcik, World Bank: 5240 Weill Hall, 5th Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar and Business Economics Seminar series)
09/21	Monitoring works: Getting teachers to come to school Esther Duflo, MIT: 1230 Weill Hall, O'Neill Classroom (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar and Business Economics Seminar series)
09/28	Was Vietnam's Economic Growth in the 1990's Pro-Poor? Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota: 1210 Weill Hall, Frey Foundation Classroom
10/06	Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya Pascaline Dupas, Dartmouth College: 201 Lorch Hall, 10:00 a.m. (co-sponsored with the Business Economics and Applied Microeconomics Seminar series)
10/12	On the Output Effects of Barriers to Trade Alberto Trejos, INCAE Business School: 1210 Weill Hall, Frey Foundation Classroom
10/19	Abhijit Banerjee, MIT:1210 Weill Hall, Frey Foundation Classroom (co-sponsored with the Business Economics Seminar series)
10/27	Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa David Lam, University of Michigan: 6050 ISR, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (co-sponsored with the Labor Economics Seminar Series)
11/09	Factor Adjustment After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Columbian Plants Adriana Kugler, University of Houston: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the Business Economics Seminar series)
11/16	Pass-through at the Dock: Pricing to Currency and to Market? Gita Gopinah, Harvard University: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar series)
11/30	International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School: 3240 Weill Hall, 3rd Floor Seminar Room (co-sponsored with the International Economics Seminar and Business Economics Seminar series)
12/07	Speaker and room TBC:

Winter Semester, 2006

02/16	Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes? Luigi Zingales (Chicago GSB)
03/09	"Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Economy in Transition" Cristian "Kiki" Pop-Eleches (Columbia) (joint with Ofer Malamud)
03/16	Ford School Symposium on Microfinance (Keynote speaker: Jonathan Morduch, NYU). Event Details.
03/23	"Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census" Darren Lubotsky (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
03/31	"The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor" Rodrigo Soares (U. Maryland) (joint with applied micro)
04/06	"Housing, Health and Happiness" Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley and World Bank)
04/13	Industrial Evolution in Crisis-Prone Economies Jim Tybout (Penn State) (joint with International Seminar)

Fall Semester, 2005

09/15	"Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine" Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan)
09/22	"Some Economic Implications of Caste" Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia)
09/29	"Returns to Health: Evidence from Exogenous Height Variation in Indonesia" Dean Yang (University of Michigan) joint with Sharon Maccini.
10/06	"Public Transfers and Intra-household Resource Allocation: Evidence from a Supplementary School Feeding Program" Farzana Afridi (University of Michigan)
10/13	"Quality Upgrading and Establishment Wage Policies: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data" Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) joint with Int’l Seminar. 11:40am - 1:00pm in room 201 Lorch Hall
10/27	"Slavery, Institutional Development and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400-2000" Nathan Nunn (UBC) joint with International Seminar. 11:40am - 1:00pm in room 201 Lorch Hall
11/04	"Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines" Nava Ashraf (Harvard University) joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar. 10:00am - 11:30am in room 201 Lorch Hall
11/11	"Trading Partners and Trading Volumes" Marc Melitz (Harvard University) joint with Applied Micro/BE seminar. 10:00am - 11:30am in room 201 Lorch Hall Download the PDF of presentation slides
11/17	"Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow? The Rise of Affordable Private Schools" Asim Khwaja (Harvard University)
11/24	THANKSGIVING - no seminar
12/01	"Ownership Form and Contractual Inefficiency in the Indian Sugar Industry" Dilip Mookerjee (Boston University)
12/08	Albert Park (University of Michigan)
12/15	Nzinga Broussard (University of Michigan)

Winter Semester, 2005

03/10	Jan Svejnar / Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan) "Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?"
03/17	Dean Yang (University of Michigan) "Integrity for Hire: An Analysis of a Widespread Program for Combating Customs Corruption"
03/24	Jenny Hunt (McGill University) "Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?"
03/31	Gerard Roland (University of California - Berkeley) "The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam"
04/07	Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford) "Wages and Labor Management in African Manufacturing"
04/14	Richard Akresh (University of Illinois) "School Enrollment Impacts of Non-traditional Household Structure"

Fall Semester, 2004

09/10	Erica Field. (Harvard) [Friday, Joint with Labor Seminar] "Consequences of Early Marriage for Women in Bangladesh."
09/16	Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) "Rural Vietnam in Transition"
09/23	Steve Levitt (Chicago) [joint with Microeconomics Seminar] "The Impact of Crack Cocaine."
09/30	David Levine (University of California - Berkeley) "The Effects of Industrialization on School Enrollment and Child Labor"
10/08	Mark Rosenzweig (Harvard) [Friday] [co-sponsored by Applied Microeconomics seminars] "Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural Inequality "
10/14	Saul Estrin (London Business School) "Privatisation Methods and Economic Growth in Transition Economies"
10/21	Jean-Marie Baland (Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix) "Land and Power and the impact of the 1958 electoral reform in Chile."
10/28	Klara Sabirianova (University of Michigan Business School) "Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia. "
11/04	Chris Udry (Yale) [joint with Microeconomics Seminar] "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investments in Ghana."
11/11	James Levinsohn and Justin McCrary (University of Michigan) "Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid"
11/19	Philippe Aghion (Harvard) [Friday] [co-sponsored by Applied Microeconomics seminars] "Volatility and Growth: Financial Development and the Cyclical Composition of Investment."
11/25	Thanksgiving - no seminar
12/02	Eiji Mangyo (University of Michigan)" Who Benefits More from Higher Consumption? The Intrahousehold Allocation of Nutrients in China"
12/09	Steve Berry (Yale) [joint with Microeconomics Seminar] "Product Quality and Market Size."