spring 2006seminar

IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINARS

Spring 2006

March 13	Ben Olken (Harvard University) *Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia*
March 20	Rajeev Dehejia(Columbia University and Harvard University) *Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demands on the Dhaka Slums*
March 27	Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS *Trade Liberalization, Schooling, and Child Labor: Evidence from India* (with E. Edmonds & P.Topalova)
April 3	Andrew Newman (Boston Unviersity) *Smithian Growth through Creative Organization*
April 10	Maristella Botticini (Boston University) *Social Norms and Demographic Shocks: Florence, 1250-1450*
April 24	Ernesto Schargrodsky (Harvard and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) *School Decentralization: Helping the Good Get Better, but Leaving the Poor Behind*
May 1	Jean- Marie Baland (Harvard and University of Namur) Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

All workshops, except where noted, are on Mondays at 3:30-5:00pm in Room 315, at 264 Bay State Road, Boston.
Copies of Seminar Papers will be available on-line or outside Room 510.

Last updated: 4/25/06