September 8

David Foulkes Mayer (CIDE, Mexico City)
“Health, Economic Growth, and Poverty Traps”

Esther Duflo (MIT)
“Remedying Education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India”

Kaivan Munshi (Brown University)
“Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender,and Schooling Choice in a Modernizing Economy”

Will Masters (Columbia University)
"Research Prizes: A Mechanism to Reward Innovation"

Geoffrey Heal (Columbia Business School)
"Tourism Conservation and Development"

David Levine (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business)
“Losing the Presence and Presents of Parents: How Parental Death Affects Children"

Alan Taylor (University of California, Davis)
"Productivity, Tradability, and the Great Divergence"

Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
"Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict"

No Seminar - University Holiday

Lant Pritchett (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard)

CANCELLED

Rafael Di Tella (Harvard Business School)

"Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?"

Claire Kremen (Princeton University)
"Designing a National Park in Madagascar Under the Integrated Conservation and Development Paradigm: Ecological and Economic Perspectives"
"Economic Incentives for Rain Forest Conservation Across Scales"