Labor and Development Seminar Series - Spring 2016

Usual time and place: 3:15pm - 4:45pm on Wednesday in Social Sciences 111.
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01/14/2016
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Yana Gallen  (Northwestern)
The Gender Productivity Gap
Joint with Recruiting, Public and IO.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 113 at 11:30am on Thursday.
All one-on-one meetings must be approved by Katie-Rose.
02/10/2016
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Shelly Lundberg  (UC Santa Barbara)
Family Background, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Gaps in Education
Joint with ERID.
02/16/2016
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Chris Udry  (Yale University)
CANCELLED because of weather
Joint with Public and IO.
02/19/2016
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Grant Miller  (Stanford)
Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao
Joint with International Population, Health and Development, Duke University Population Research Institute, ERID Seminars and Workshops.
Note: Seminar will be in Social Sciences 111 at 1:30pm on Friday.
02/24/2016
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Chris Flinn  (NYU)
Search, Matching, and Training (joint with Ahu Gemici and Steve Laufer)
03/02/2016
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Prashant Bharadwaj  (UC San Diego)
Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
03/09/2016
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Richard Blundell  (UCL)
Female Labor Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Joint with Public and IO.
03/23/2016
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Eric Edmonds  (Dartmouth College)
Coercion, Debt-Bondage and Human Capital
03/30/2016
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Guido Porto  (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
Trading-off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy
Joint with ERID.
04/06/2016
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Seema Jayachandran  (Northwestern University)
"Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation" (joint w/Joost de Laat, Eric Lambin, and Charlotte Stanton)
04/13/2016
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Melanie Morten  (Stanford)
Paving the Way to Development: Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
04/20/2016
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James Levinsohn  (Yale University)
Individual Migration and Household Incomes (with Julia Garlick and Murray Leibbrandt)
04/27/2016
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Tavneet Suri  (MIT Sloan)
The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa


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