IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINARS

Spring 2008

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March 17

Lori Beaman (University of California, Berkeley)

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

March 24

Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)

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

with Eric Verhoogen

March 31

Una Osili (Indiana University-Perdue University at Indianapolis)

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

With Anna Paulson

April 07

Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics, Michigan)

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

With Tim Besley

April 14

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

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: Mar 03 2008