SSDS (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)

Seminar on the Study of Development Strategies (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)

Seminar Director: Macartan Humphreys

Time: Fridays, 11-1PM [followed by lunch at the faculty house]

Location: 711 IAB building

Syllabus: Here

Speakers

FALL 2010
1.   September 10    Welcome and Introductions
2.   September 17    Speaker: Pascaline Dupas, UCLA
3.   September 24    Student Presentations
4.   October 1             Speaker: Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University
5.   October 8             EGAP meeting
6.   October 15           Speaker : Ana Lorena de la O, Yale University
7.   October 22          Speaker: Thad Dunning, Yale University
8.   October 29           CAPERS meeting
9.   November 5        Speaker: Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
10. November 12     Speaker: Ethan Kaplan, Institute for IIES
11.  November 19     Laura Paler, Columbia
12.  December 8        (Wednesday!)    Speaker: Asim Khwaja, Harvard University
13.  December 10      Chris Blattman, Yale University

SPRING 2011 SEMESTER
15.    January 18
Speaker: David Laitin, Stanford

16.    January 28
Student Presentations: Laura Paler + TBA

17.    February 4    No meeting

18.    February 11
Speaker: Rohini Pande, Harvard University;
Discussants: Noah Buckley, Ben Pasquale

19.    February 18
Speaker: Rikhil Bhavnani, Stanford University;
Discussants: David Szakonyi, Pavithra Suryanarayan

20.    February 25
Speaker: Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Princeton University;
Discussants: Jordan Kyle Cohen, Elisabeth King

21.    March 4
Student Presentations: Patrice Howard + Ben Pasquale, NYU;
Discussants:  Lauren Young, Jerome Bachelard

22.    March 11
Speaker: Oendrila Dube, New York University;
Discussants: Peter van der Windt, Marion Dumas

23.    March 18
SPRING BREAK – No meeting

24.    March 25
Speaker: Donald Green, Yale University;
Discussants: Laura Paler, David Szakonyi

25.    April 1
Student Presentations: Eric Mvukiyehe+ Jordan Kyle Cohen;
Discussants: Noah Buckley, Ana Arjona

26.    April 8
Student Presentations: Elizabeth Sperber + Virginia Oliveros;
Discussants: Tiffany Washburn, Jerome Bachelard

27.    April 15
Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Columbia University;
Discussants: Pavithra Suryanarayan, Lauren Young

28.    April 29

Speaker: Ryan Sheely, Harvard University;
Discussants: Tiffany Washburn, Grant Gordon

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