rlab  case  cep  fmg  sticerd   contact us  directions  IT support  rlab data    about   research programmes   publications   events and calendar    current events :     - seminars     - special events     - public lectures     - conferences    past events :     - seminars     - special events     - public lectures     - conferences   staff directory   support and services   news and visitors 14 - May - 2012 Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves Rema Hanna joint with Michael Greenstone Esther Duflo (Harvard University) [downlaod pdf] 05 - Mar - 2012 Private Returns to Public Office Raymond Fisman joint with Florian Schulz and Vikrant Vig (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 27 - Feb - 2012 "Customary Norms, Inheritance and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana" Eliana La Ferrara joint with A. Milazzo (Bocconi University) 20 - Feb - 2012 “Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India" Karthik Muralidharan (University of California San Diego) 13 - Feb - 2012 "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil" CANCELLED Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi) "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil" 05 - Dec - 2011 Marriage Networks, Nepotism and Labor Market Outcomes in China Shing-Yi Wang (NYU) [downlaod pdf] 28 - Nov - 2011 "Markets for Fake Antimalarials: Experimental Evidence from Uganda" Jakob Svensson (IIES) 21 - Nov - 2011 Behavioral Responses to Notches: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records in Pakistan Henrik Kleven joint with Mazhar Waseem (LSE) (London School of Economics) [downlaod pdf] 14 - Nov - 2011 Little Emperors—Behavioral Impacts of China’s One-Child Policy Lisa Cameron (Monash University) 07 - Nov - 2011 RISK SHARING AND TRANSACTION COSTS: EVIDENCE FROM KENYA’S MOBILE MONEY REVOLUTION Tavneet Suri joint with William Jack (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 31 - Oct - 2011 Social Proximity and Loan Outcomes: Evidence from an Indian Bank Daniel Paravisini joint with Raymond Fisman and Vikrant Vig (Columbia University) [downlaod pdf] 24 - Oct - 2011 Targets of Violence: Evidence from India’s Naxalite Conflict Oliver Vanden Eynde (EOPP, LSE) [downlaod pdf] 17 - Oct - 2011 TRANSPARENCY, APPROPRIABILITY AND THE EARLY STATE Omer Moav joint with Joram Mayshar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Zvika Neeman (Tel Aviv University) (Hebrew University and Royal Holloway University of London) [downlaod pdf] 10 - Oct - 2011 Development Effects of Electrification:Evidence from the Geologic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil Mushfiq Mobarak joint with Molly Lipscomb University of Notre Dame and Tania Barham University of Colorado, Boulder (Yale School of Management) [downlaod pdf] 06 - Jun - 2011 SCHOOL INPUTS, HOUSEHOLD SUBSTITUTION, AND TEST SCORES Stefan Dercon joint with Jishnu Das (World Bank); Stefan Dercon (Oxford); James Habyarimana, (Georgetown University); Pramila Krishnan, (Cambridge); Karthik Muralidharan, (UC, San Diego) and Venkatesh Sundararaman (World Bank)). (Oxford University) [downlaod pdf] 23 - May - 2011 ANTI-LEMONS: SCHOOL REPUTATION, RELATIVE DIVERSITY, AND EDUCATIONAL QUALITY Miguel Urquiola (Columbia) 16 - May - 2011 Black-white convergence in educational attainment and earnings: The role of birth cohort and infant health Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern) 09 - May - 2011 Incentives and Selection in Labor Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi Raymond Guiteras joint with B Kelsey Jack (Harvard and JPAL) (Maryland) 21 - Mar - 2011 The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration George Borjas (Harvard) [downlaod pdf] 14 - Mar - 2011 CHILD GENDER AND PARENTAL INVESTMENTS IN INDIA: ARE BOYS AND GIRLS TREATED DIFFERENTLY? Adriana Lleras-Muney joint with Silvia Helena Barcellos (Rand) Leandro Carvalho (Rand) (UCLA) [downlaod pdf] 07 - Mar - 2011 Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Savings Experiments in Kenya Pascaline Dupas (UCLA) 28 - Feb - 2011 The Life-Cycle of Manufacturing Plants in India and Mexico. Chang-tai Hsieh (Chicago GSB) 21 - Feb - 2011 The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics Ben Olken joint with Robin Burgess (LSE) Matthew Hansen (SDSU) Benjamin Olken (MIT) Peter Potapov (SDSU) Stefanie Sieber (LSE) (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 14 - Feb - 2011 Smooth(er) Landing? The Dynamic Role of Networks in the Location and Occupational Choice of Immigrants Jeanne Lafortune joint with José Tessada, (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) (Maryland) [downlaod pdf] 07 - Feb - 2011 TBA Thomas Fujiwara (UBC) 19 - Jan - 2011 Assignment Reversals: Trade, Skill Allocation and Wage Inequality Thomas Sampson (CEP/LSE) [downlaod pdf] 17 - Jan - 2011 TBA Mar Reguant (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 06 - Dec - 2010 Authority, Incentives and Performance: Theory and Evidence from a Chinese Newspaper Yanhui Wu (CEP & LSE) [downlaod pdf] 29 - Nov - 2010 Evaluation of Financial Systems in Developing Countries Robert Townsend (MIT) 22 - Nov - 2010 The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon Rodrigo Soares joint with Ariaster B. Chimeli (PUC-Rio) [downlaod pdf] 15 - Nov - 2010 Informal Insurance, Social Ties, and Financial Development: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field Cynthia Kinnan joint with Arun Chandrasekhar and Horacio Larreguy (Northwestern) [downlaod pdf] 08 - Nov - 2010 Testing Coalition-Proof Dynamic Risk-Sharing. Tessa Bold (IIES) 01 - Nov - 2010 Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India Robert Jensen (UCLA) [downlaod pdf] 25 - Oct - 2010 Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India Rohini Pande joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Selvan Kumar and Felix Su (Harvard) [downlaod pdf] 18 - Oct - 2010 The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification Konrad Burchardi joint with Tarek A. Hassan (University of Chicago) (EOPP, LSE) [downlaod pdf] 11 - Oct - 2010 Economic Networks of the Poor: Wealth as a Determinant of Network Structure Selim Gulesci (EOPP) [downlaod pdf] 24 - May - 2010 Women's Rights and Development Raquel Fernandez (NYU) [downlaod pdf] 17 - May - 2010 Capture and Clientelism in Local Governance: Theory and Evidence Pranab Bardhan (Berkeley) 10 - May - 2010 Sanitary Technology in Nepal: Menstrual Cup Adoption and Effects on Education Rebecca Thornton joint with Emily Oster (University of Chicago and NBER) (Michigan) [downlaod pdf] [downlaod pdf 2] 26 - Apr - 2010 Workers without Borders Sanjay Jain joint with Sumon Majumdar, (Queen's University) and Sharun W. Mukand (Tufts University and University of Warwick) (Cambridge) [downlaod pdf] 22 - Mar - 2010 Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK Gordon Hanson joint with Craig McIntosh (UCSD) (UC San Diego) [downlaod pdf] 15 - Mar - 2010 Technology Diffusion and Social Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda Macartan Humphries joint with Jiehua Chen and Vijay Modi (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 08 - Mar - 2010 Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Richard Akresh joint with Damien de Walque (Illinois) [downlaod pdf] 01 - Mar - 2010 Does management matter: evidence from India Nick Bloom joint with Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts (CEP) [downlaod pdf] 07 - Dec - 2009 Compensated for Life: Sex Work and Disease Risk in Ecuador Raj Arunchalam joint with Manisha Shah (Michigan) 30 - Nov - 2009 Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia Katja Kaufmann joint with Erica Field and Jean Lee. (Bocconi) 23 - Nov - 2009 What is the Cost of Formality? Experimentally estimating the demand for formalization Christopher Woodruff joint with Suresh de Mel, University of Peradeniya David McKenzie, World Bank Christopher Woodruff, University of Warwick (Warwick) [downlaod pdf] 16 - Nov - 2009 The Distributional Implications of Group Lending Jean-Marie Baland joint with Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics) and Zaki Wahhaj (University of Oxford) (Namur) [downlaod pdf] 09 - Nov - 2009 The Blessing of Natural Resources: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine Fernando Aragon joint with Juan Pablo Rud (LSE) [downlaod pdf] 02 - Nov - 2009 Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa Torsten Persson joint with Masa Kudamatsu and David Strömberg (IIES) 26 - Oct - 2009 Building Peace: The Impact of Reconstruction Spending on the Labor Market for Insurgents Radha Iyengar joint with Matthew Hanson (NBER) and Jonathan Monten (Yale) (CEP, LSE and NBER) [downlaod pdf] 19 - Oct - 2009 MOTIVATING POLITICIANS: THE IMPACTS OF MONETARY INCENTIVES ON QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE Claudio Ferraz joint with Frederico Finan (PUC - Rio) [downlaod pdf] 12 - Oct - 2009 The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of U.S. Government Bias on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights Abuses Nancy Qian (Brown) [downlaod pdf] 05 - Oct - 2009 Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India Abhijit Banerjee joint with Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 08 - Jun - 2009 TBA CANCELLED Robert Jensen (UCLA) TBA 01 - Jun - 2009 Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality David Weil joint with Louis Putterman (Brown) (Brown) [downlaod pdf] 18 - May - 2009 Do Social Interactions Facilitate Cooperative Behavior? Evidence from a Group Lending Experiment in India Erica Field joint with Benjamin Feigenberg and Rohini Pande. (Both Harvard) (Harvard University) [downlaod pdf] 11 - May - 2009 The Effect of Proximity on School Enrollment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan Leigh Linden joint with Dana Burde (NYU Steinhardt) (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 27 - Apr - 2009 Do Democracies Select Better Leaders? Marta Reynal-Querol joint with Tim Besley (LSE) (Pompeu Fabra) 16 - Mar - 2009 Guns and Roses: Contractual Relationships, Ethnic Violence and Kenyan Flowers Exports Rocco Machiavello joint with Ameet Morjaria (LSE and Sticerd) (Oxford University) [downlaod pdf] 09 - Mar - 2009 Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Micro-Borrowing Groups Christian Ahlin (Michigan State) [downlaod pdf] 02 - Mar - 2009 Does Exposing Corrupt Politicians Reduce Corruption? Gustavo Bobonis (Toronto) 23 - Feb - 2009 Parental Sex Selection and Gender Balance V Bhaskar (University College London) [downlaod pdf] 08 - Dec - 2008 The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Columbia Eric Verhoogen joint with Maurice Kugler (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 01 - Dec - 2008 Village Banking and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Kenya Jonathan Robinson joint with Pascaline Dupas (UCLA) (UC Santa Cruz) [downlaod pdf] 24 - Nov - 2008 Political Allocation of Finance Enrico Perotti joint with Marcel Vorage (University of Amsterdam) [downlaod pdf] 17 - Nov - 2008 The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development Matteo Cervellati joint with Uwe Sunde (University of St.Gallen) (University of Bocconi) [downlaod pdf] 10 - Nov - 2008 Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Doug Almond joint with Bhashkar Mazumder (Columbia University) [downlaod pdf] 03 - Nov - 2008 The effects of rural electrification on employment: New evidence from South Africa Taryn Dinkelman (Princeton University) [downlaod pdf] 27 - Oct - 2008 Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information Ethan Kaplan joint with Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu (Berkeley) [downlaod pdf] 20 - Oct - 2008 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust within Africa Nathan Nunn joint with Leonard Wantchekon (New York University) (Toronto) [downlaod pdf] 13 - Oct - 2008 ‘Railroads and the Raj: The Economic Impact of Transportation Infrastructure’ Dave Donaldson (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 12 - May - 2008 Spillovers in Village Consumption: Testing the Extent of Partial Insurance Tavneet Suri (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 05 - May - 2008 TBA Michelle Tertilt (Manheim) 28 - Apr - 2008 Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations Philippe Aghion joint with Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc (Harvard) [downlaod pdf] 21 - Apr - 2008 TIME VS. MONEY IN CHILD HEALTH PRODUCTION: THE CASE OF COFFEE PRICE FLUCTUATIONS AND CHILD SURVIVAL IN COLOMBIA Grant Miller joint with B. Piedad Urdinola (Harvard) [downlaod pdf] 17 - Mar - 2008 Enterprise Recovery following Natural Disasters Christopher Woodruff joint with Suresh de Mel and David McKenzie University of Perideniya and World Bank (Warwick) [downlaod pdf] 10 - Mar - 2008 The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela’s Maisanta Edward Miguel joint with Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of California, Berkeley. Daniel Ortega, IESA. Francisco Rodríguez, Wesleyan University. (Berkeley) [downlaod pdf] 03 - Mar - 2008 The Long Way Around: The Real Costs of Corruption in Transportation Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard) 25 - Feb - 2008 Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India Chang-tai Hsieh (Chicago GSB) 18 - Feb - 2008 Powerful Women: Female Leadership and Gender Bias in Indian Villages Rohini Pande joint with joint with Lori Beaman, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo and Petia Topalova (Harvard) [downlaod pdf] 10 - Dec - 2007 Technological Diversification Silvana Tenreyro joint with Miklos Koren (LSE) [downlaod pdf] 03 - Dec - 2007 Information and Incentives Inside the Firm: Evidence from Loan Officer Rotation Daniel Paravisini joint with Andrew Hertzberg and Jose Maria Liberti (Columbia University) [downlaod pdf] 26 - Nov - 2007 "Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India". Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard University) [downlaod pdf] 19 - Nov - 2007 Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms Sebastian Galiani joint with Federico Weinschelbaum Universidad de San Andrés (Washington University) [downlaod pdf] 12 - Nov - 2007 Climate Change, Development and a Global Deal Nicholas Stern (Asia Research Centre and LSE) 05 - Nov - 2007 The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics Rohini Pande joint with Torsten Persson IIES, Stockholm University (Harvard, EOPP Visitor) [downlaod pdf] 29 - Oct - 2007 Political Instability and Financial Development Mark Roe joint with Jordan I. Siegel (Harvard University) [downlaod pdf] 22 - Oct - 2007 Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders Andreas Madestam (Bocconi) [downlaod pdf] 15 - Oct - 2007 The Impact of Trade on Technology and Skill Upgrading Evidence from Argentina Paula Bustos (CREI) [downlaod pdf] 21 - May - 2007 Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets? Maristella Botticini joint with Aloysius Siow University of Toronto (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino, and Boston University) [downlaod pdf] 14 - May - 2007 Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa Emily Oster (Chicago GSB) [downlaod pdf] 30 - Apr - 2007 Life expectancy and human capital investments: Evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka Seema Jayachandran joint with Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton University) (Stanford) [downlaod pdf] 12 - Mar - 2007 MALARIA IN THE AMERICAS: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CHILDHOOD EXPOSURE Hoyt Bleakley (Chicago GSB) [downlaod pdf] 05 - Mar - 2007 Long Run health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France Esther Duflo joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Tim Watts (MIT) [downlaod pdf] 26 - Feb - 2007 Commodity Prices and Growth: Reconciling a Conundrum Benedikt Goderis joint with Paul Collier (University of Oxford) (University of Oxford) [downlaod pdf] 19 - Feb - 2007 "Income Shocks and Gender Gaps in Education: Evidence from Uganda". Martina Bjorkman (Bocconi) [downlaod pdf] 12 - Feb - 2007 TBA Asim Khwaja (Kennedy School of Government - Harvard) 04 - Dec - 2006 TBA Nancy Qian joint with Xin Meng (Brown) [downlaod pdf] 27 - Nov - 2006 Going into Labor: Earnings vs. Infant Survival in Rural Africa Elsa Artadi (Bocconi) [downlaod pdf] 20 - Nov - 2006 The increased concentration of wealth in Paris 1807-1912 Of Revolution and Demography Jean-Laurent Rosenthal joint with Thomas Piketty (EHESS, PSE), Gilles Postel Vinay (EHESS, INRA-LEA) (UCLA) [downlaod pdf] 13 - Nov - 2006 Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Katja Kaufmann joint with James Berry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jesse M. Shapiro University of Chicago and NBER (Bocconi) [downlaod pdf] 06 - Nov - 2006 TBA Dean Yang (University of Michigan) 30 - Oct - 2006 Regional Specialization in the Long Run Guy Michaels (LSE & CEP) [downlaod pdf] 23 - Oct - 2006 "Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of a Citizen Report Card Project in Uganda". Jakob Svensson joint with Martina Björkman IGIER, University of Bocconi, and CEPR. (IIES) [downlaod pdf] 16 - Oct - 2006 THE EFFECT OF PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION ON PRIMARY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE Samuel Berlinski joint with Sebastian Galiani Paul Gertler (UCL) [downlaod pdf] 09 - Oct - 2006 Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy Omer Moav joint with Oded Galor (Hebrew University and Royal Holloway University of London) [downlaod pdf] 10 - May - 2006 Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Raymond Fisman joint with Edward Miguel University of California, Berkeley and NBER (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 24 - Apr - 2006 Lobbying on Entry Enrico Perotti joint with Paolo Volpin (University of Amsterdam) [downlaod pdf] 13 - Mar - 2006 TBA Sharun Mukand (Tufts) 06 - Mar - 2006 Racial Segregation and Public School Expenditure, E. La Ferrara (Bocconi) (joint with A. Mele) Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University) 27 - Feb - 2006 Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? (Preliminary) Shawn Cole (Harvard) 20 - Feb - 2006 Monitoring Corruption:*Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia Ben Olken (MIT) 13 - Feb - 2006 Chronic Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility and Growth Fabian Lange joint with joint with Hoyt Bleakley (University of California at San Diego) (Yale) 30 - Jan - 2006 The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana Chris Udry joint with Markus Goldstein (World Bank) (Yale) 18 - Jan - 2006 In Sorrow to Bring Forth Children: Fertility amidst the Plague of HIV Alwyn Young (Chicago) 16 - Jan - 2006 Exporting and Individual Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data Eric Verhoogen joint with David S. Kaplan (ITAM) (Columbia) [downlaod pdf] 05 - Dec - 2005 "Class size as a market outcome". Miguel Urquiola joint with Patrick McEwan (Wellesley College) and Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) (Columbia) 28 - Nov - 2005 'Dams' Rohini Pande joint with Esther Duflo (MIT) (Harvard) 21 - Nov - 2005 "Women as Agents of Change: Female Income, Social Affiliation and Household Decisions in South India". Kaivan Munshi joint with Nancy Luke (Brown University) (Brown University) 14 - Nov - 2005 The politics of parochialism: political competition and politician quality Abhijit Banerjee joint with Rohini Pande (Yale) (MIT) 07 - Nov - 2005 "Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth" Simon Johnson joint with Daron Acemoglu MIT (MIT/IMF) 31 - Oct - 2005 "Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania" Cristian Pop-Eleches joint with Ofer Malamud (Columbia) 24 - Oct - 2005 Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School Esther Duflo joint with Rema Hanna New York University (MIT) 17 - Oct - 2005 "Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States". Rohini Pande joint with Torsten Persson (IIES, and Stockholm University). (Harvard, EOPP Visitor) 10 - Oct - 2005 "Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality and Growth". Mark Rosenzweig joint with Kaivan Munshi (Brown University and NBER) (Yale) 06 - Jun - 2005 tba Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Graduate School of Business) 16 - May - 2005 The dynamics of inequality and growth in rural China: Does higher inequality impede growth Dwayne Benjamin joint with Loren Brandt and John Giles (Toronto) 06 - May - 2005 Does immigration affect the long term educational outcomes of natives? Quasi-experimental evidence (Seminar joint with Labour Seminar Series) Victor Lavy (RHUL & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 03 - May - 2005 Buying less, but shopping more: Changes in consumption patterns during a crisis David McKenzie (Stanford) 14 - Mar - 2005 Estimating Dynamic Local Interactions Models CANCELLED Timothy G. Conley joint with Giorgio Topa (University of Chicago) Estimating Dynamic Local Interactions Models 07 - Mar - 2005 Incomes in South Africa since the fall of Apartheid James Levinsohn joint with Murry Leibbrandt and Justin McCrary (University of Michigan and NBER) 13 - Dec - 2004 t.b.a. Stanley Zin (Carnegie Mellon University) 06 - Dec - 2004 "How Much of Observed Economic Mobility is Measurement Error: A Method to Remove Measurement Error with an Application to Vietnam." Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota) 29 - Nov - 2004 t.b.a. Debraj Ray (New York University) 22 - Nov - 2004 "Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment" Dean Karlan (Princeton University) 15 - Nov - 2004 "Teacher Shocks and Student Learning: Evidence from Zambia" Stefan Dercon (Oxford University) 08 - Nov - 2004 "Private Donations for International Development" John Mickelwright (Institute of Education) 01 - Nov - 2004 "Cooperation in the Workplace: Evidence From the Field" Oriana Bandiera (LSE, EOPP) 25 - Oct - 2004 "Corruption and Politicians: Rent-seeking in an Emerging Financial Market" Asim Khwaja (Kennedy School of Government - Harvard) 18 - Oct - 2004 "Informal Insurance in Social Networks" Garance Genicot joint with Francis Bloch and Debraj Ray (Georgetown) 11 - Oct - 2004 "The Effect of Land Titling" Sebastian Galiani (Washington University) 22 - Mar - 2004 Risk Sharing with Formal and Informal Contracts: Theory, Semi-Parametric Identification and Estimation Thierry Magnac joint with P Dubois and B Julien (Toulouse) 15 - Mar - 2004 From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History Maristella Botticini joint with Zvi Eckstein (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino, and Boston University) 08 - Mar - 2004 Endogenous network formation and informal institutions in rural Ethiopia Pramila Krishnan (University of Cambridge) 01 - Mar - 2004 Descent rules and inter-vivos transfers Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University) 16 - Feb - 2004 Disciplining Local Leaders in Community-driven Development J-P Platteau joint with Frederic Gaspart (University of Namur) 09 - Feb - 2004 Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending Robert Townsend (MIT) 02 - Feb - 2004 Land Tenure and Productive Efficiency Markus Goldstein joint with Chris Udry (EOPP, LSE) [downlaod pdf] 26 - Jan - 2004 Does it matter where you eat? Nutrition and children's height in rural Colombia Orazio Attanasio (UCL) 19 - Jan - 2004 Incentives and Nutrition for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Food Allocation in the Philippines Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley) 12 - Jan - 2004 US Border Enforcement and the Net Inflow of Mexican Illegal Migration Manuela Angelucci (UCL) 11 - Mar - 2002 Trade, Law and Product Complexity Dan Berkowitz (Pittsburgh and UCL) 04 - Mar - 2002 Risk Pooling and Limited Commitment: An Experimental Approach Abigail Barr (Oxford University) 25 - Feb - 2002 Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy Andrew Foster joint with Mark Rosenzweig (Brown University) 18 - Feb - 2002 From Ports to Prosperity: Atlantic Trade, Institutitonal Change and the Rise of Europe Daron Acemoglu joint with Simon Johnson (MIT) 11 - Feb - 2002 Trust and Development Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia) 04 - Feb - 2002 This seminar has been cancelled Maristella Botticini (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino, and Boston University) 28 - Jan - 2002 Inequality, Market Imperfections, and Collective Action Pranab Bardhan (Berkeley) 10 - Dec - 2001 Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence Nick Bloom (CEP) 03 - Dec - 2001 Land and Power James Robinson (University of California, Berkeley) 26 - Nov - 2001 Conflict and Globalisation Paul Collier (Oxford) 23 - Nov - 2001 A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers Antonio Merlo joint with Daniel Diermeier and Mike Keane. (This event is jointly organised with the CEP Friday Seminar) (University of Pennsylvania) 12 - Nov - 2001 When Schools Compete, How do they Compete? An Assessment of Chiles Nationwide School Voucher Program Miguel Urquiola (Columbia) 05 - Nov - 2001 Rich Nations, Poor Nations: how much can multiple equilibria explain? Jon Temple (University of Bristol) 22 - Oct - 2001 Why dowry payments declined in Europe but are increasing in India Siwan Anderson (Tilburg University.) 15 - Oct - 2001 Incomplete Marital Contracts - Theory and Evidence from Malaysia Imran Rasul (UCL)   copyright © STICERD 2005 - 2007 LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE   e-mail: sticerd@lse.ac.uk