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Seminar in Economic Development |
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Term: Spring 2024 |
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Location: MIT - The Tang Center - Room: E51-395 (unless noted otherwise) 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge. MA 02142 |
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Meeting Time: Wednesday 2:45 - 4:00 PM (unless noted otherwise) |
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Description: MIT/Harvard Joint Seminar in Economic Development |
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| All Seminars are joint with MIT, excluding 3/25/24. |
*Joint with Industrial Organization Seminar
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DATE |
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February 7, 2024 |
Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara) |
“Targeting subsidies through price menus: Menu design and evidence from clean fuels” |
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February 14, 2024
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Christiane Szerman (University College London) |
"The Labor Market Effects of Disability Hiring Quotas" |
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February 21, 2024 |
Anna Vitali (Dartmouth) |
"Consumer Search and Firm Location: Evidence from the Garmet Sector in Uganda" |
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February 28, 2024 |
Gabriel Ulyssea (University College London) |
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March 6, 2024 |
Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley) |
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March 13, 2024 |
NO SEMINAR |
Spring Break @ Harvard |
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March 20, 2024 |
Simon Quinn (Imperial College Business School) |
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March 25, 2024 *Joint with IO (Monday @ 4:30) Littauer Center of Public Administration, Third floor Lounge |
Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago: Booth School of Business) |
“Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies & Preliminary Results on Smithian Growth” |
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March 27, 2024 |
NO SEMINAR |
Spring Break @ MIT |
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April 3, 2024 |
NO SEMINAR |
Harris Lecture |
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April 10, 2024 |
Christina Brown (Univeristy of Chicago) |
"Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers" |
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April 17, 2024 |
Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan) |
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April 24, 2024 |
Juliana Londono-Velez (UCLA)
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"Elite Colleges as Engines of Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga" |
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April 29, 2024 |
Applied Micro @ MIT |
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May 6, 2024 Joint with Applied Micro 4:00PM - 5:30PM on Monday, May 6th in E52 - 164 |
Clare Balboni (LSE) |
"Firm Adaptation in Production Networks: Evidence from Extreme Weather Events in Pakistan" |