Lori Beaman (University of California, Berkeley)

Social Networks and the Dynamics of Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Refugees

Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)

Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression Discontinuity Design

with Eric Verhoogen

Una Osili (Indiana University-Perdue University at Indianapolis)

Bank Crises and Investor Confidence: Learning from the Experience of U.S. Immigrants

With Anna Paulson

Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics, Michigan)

Creating Collateral: The de Soto Effect and the Political Economy of Legal Reform

With Tim Besley

Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Modeling the Financial Lives of the Poor

April 21

No Seminar

April 28

Frederico Finan (UCLA)

Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance