Seminar in Economic Development

Economic and Psychological Returns to Social Relationships: Alleviating Constraints to Network Formation in Malawi Speaker Gabriella Fleischman, PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School. Chair Emily Breza, Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Frederic E. Abbe...

Familiar Strangers: Evidence from Referral-Based Hiring Experiments in India Speaker Kartik Srivastava, PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School. Chair Emily Breza, Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of...

"Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up" Speaker: Natalie Bau, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

"Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies and Preliminary Results on Smithian Growth" Speaker: Richard Hornbeck, V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, The University of Chicago Booth...

"Firm Adaptation in Production Networks: Evidence from Extreme Weather Events in Pakistan" Speaker: Clare Balboni, Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

"Elite Colleges as Engines of Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga" Speaker: Juliana Londono-Velez, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

"Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Place-Based Policy" Speaker: Namrata Kala, Associate Professor in Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

"Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers" Speaker: Christina Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu

"Matching, Management and Employment Outcomes: A Field Experiment with Firm Internships" Speaker: Simon Quinn, Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College Business School. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard...

"Contract Terms, Employment Shocks, and Default in Credit Cards" Speaker: Aprajit Mahajan, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Contact: Jamie Murray jamiemurray@fas.harvard.edu