Seminar 271, Development - "The Impact of Trade on Firm Size and Productivity Distributions: Evidence from India's Formal and Informal Manufacturing Sectors"

Seminar: Development and Planning | August 31 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Shanthi Nataraj, Ph.D. Candidate, UCB

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Suffrage, Schooling and Sorting in the Post-Bellum US South"

Seminar: Development and Planning | September 14 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Harvard

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-up"

Seminar: Development and Planning | September 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Emily Oster, Professor, University of Chicago

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behavior in Kenya"

Seminar: Development and Planning | September 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Jill Luoto, UCB

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Do Child Sponsorship Programs Work? Analyzing Long-term Effects with a Discontinuity Design in Uganda"

Seminar: Development and Planning | October 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

co-authored with Laine Rutledge and Joanna Chu

Seminar 271, Development - "Diversity in Organizations: Theory and Evidence from Indian Industrialization"

Seminar: Development and Planning | October 16 | 12-2:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, UCB

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

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Seminar 271, Development - "The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease: Applications and Targeting in Tanzania's Social Action Fund"

Seminar: Development and Planning | October 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Berk Ozler, George Washington University

Speaker: Sarah Baird, The World Trade Bank

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War"

Seminar: Development and Planning | October 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Nathan Nunn, Harvard University

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "The de Soto Effect"

Seminar: Development and Planning | November 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

(co-authored with Timothy Besley)

Seminar 271, Development - "An Engel Curve for Variety"

Seminar: Development and Planning | November 9 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Nick Li, UCB

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - "Islamic Parties and the Emancipation of the Poor and the Pious--Evidence from Turkey"

Seminar: Development and Planning | November 16 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Erik Meyersson, Stockholm University

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

Seminar 271, Development - The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961

Seminar: Development and Planning | November 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Nancy Qian, Yale University

Sponsor: Economics, Department of

(co-authored with Xin Meng Pierre Yared)

Seminar 271, Development - "Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India"

Seminar: Development and Planning | December 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 608-7 Evans Hall

Featured Speaker: Seema Jayachandran, Stanford University

Sponsor: Economics, Department of