{"id":27077,"date":"2020-06-07T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/?page_id=27077"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:01:49","slug":"ied-recent-activity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/econ\/research\/ied\/ied-recent-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminars &#038; Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Weekly IED\/International Economics Seminar Series<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>IED Seminar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brings researchers from institutions worldwide to give a lecture for faculty and students. The seminar is held on Mondays afternoons in Room 315 (264 Bay State Road) during the Fall and Spring semesters. For questions, please email the IED Coordinator (<a href=\"mailto:iedcoord@bu.edu\">iedcoord@bu.edu<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Links: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/e2v6rqht3ed71j810p4fba5tlc%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iCal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?mode=AGENDA&amp;src=e2v6rqht3ed71j810p4fba5tlc%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/New_York\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><b>Development and International Economics Seminar: Monday, 3:30\u20134:45 p.m.<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\n<\/b>Coordinator: <a href=\"mailto:iedcoord@bu.edu\">Kayla Maher<\/a><span><br \/>\n<\/span>Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/e2v6rqht3ed71j810p4fba5tlc%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\"><span>iCal<\/span><\/a><span> \/ <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?mode=AGENDA&amp;src=e2v6rqht3ed71j810p4fba5tlc%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/New_York\">HTML<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" style=\"border-width: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?mode=AGENDA&amp;src=e2v6rqht3ed71j810p4fba5tlc%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/New_York\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please refer to the<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/calendar\/?hl=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Calendar Help Forum<\/span><\/i><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or the user manual of your preferred calendar software\/application (e.g., Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar) and device (e.g., iPhone, Samsung Galaxy) for instructions on how to sync a calendar.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2026<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Oded Galor (Brown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feb. 9<\/td>\n<td><span>Suresh Naidu (Columbia)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feb. 23<\/td>\n<td><span>David Weinstein (visiting MIT\/Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar. 2<\/td>\n<td><span>Adam Storeygard (Tufts)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar. 16<\/td>\n<td><span>Jenny Aker (Cornell)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar. 23<\/td>\n<td><span>Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Brown)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar. 30<\/td>\n<td><span>Alberto Bisin (NYU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Apr. 6<\/td>\n<td><span>Arielle Bernhardt (NYU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Apr. 13<\/td>\n<td><span>Pascaline Dupas<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Apr. 27<\/td>\n<td><span>Sultan Mehmood (NES)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2025<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 8<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Emerick (Tufts)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 15<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jie Bai (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 22<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danila Serra (Texas A&amp;M)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 29<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 6<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Eric Edmonds (Dartmouth)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Callen (LSE) <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 27<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Paul Novosad (Dartmouth)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 3<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Charles Angelucci (MIT)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 10<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Rothenberg (Syracuse)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 17<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 1<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Desmond Ang (HKS)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 8 <\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2024-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2025<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 3<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Yang (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 17<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elisa Macchi (Brown)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 24<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eoin McGuirk (Tufts)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 31<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anjali Adukia (UChicago)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucia Corno (Cattolica University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 14<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Gechter (Visiting HKS &amp; MIT Sloan)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luigi Minale (Universidad Carlos II de Madrid)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2024<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick Ryan (Yale)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 16<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christophe Chamley (BU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 23<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asim Khwaja (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 30<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natalie Bau (UCLA)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niclas Moneke (Oxford)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hyejin Ku (UCL)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garance Genicot (Georgetown)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov. 4<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diego Daruich (USC)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 11<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diana Van Patten (Yale)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 18<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dev Patel (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Pat Testa (Tulane)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nina Harari (Wharton)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emily Breza (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2023-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2024<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isabela Manelici (LSE, visiting MIT)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 1<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awa Ambra Seck (Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 8<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 22<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doug Gollin (Tufts University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 29<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Rotemberg (NYU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2023<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 18<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manisha Shah (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 10<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devesh Rustagi (University of Warwick)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 16<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 23<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 30<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Atkin (MIT)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nov. 6<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xiaodong Zhu (University of Hong Kong)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price Fishback (University of Arizona)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 27<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Kevin Donovan (Yale University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew Pecenco (Brown University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 11<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2022-2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2023<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gaurav Chiplunkar (University of Virginia)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 27<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 3<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 10<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anders Jensen (Harvard Kennedy School)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 19<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sara Lowes (University of California, San Diego)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 24<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oeindrila Dube (University of Chicago Harris)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>May 1<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Ra\u00fal S\u00e1nchez de la Sierra<\/span> (University of Chicago Harris)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2022<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 12<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jing Cai (Maryland AREC)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 19<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melanie Xue (London School of Economics)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 26<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 3<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 11\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quamrul Ashraf (Williams College)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 17<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joana Naritomi (London School of Economics)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 24<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veronica Rappoport (London School of Economics)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oct. 31<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Namrata Kala (MIT Sloan)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Olken (MIT)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 14<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ama Baafra Abeberese (Wellesley College)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Ra\u00fal Santaeulalia-Llopis (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 5<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gordon Hanson (Harvard Kennedy School)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 12<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Fiszbein (Boston University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2021-2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2022<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christ Blattman (University of Chicago)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 14<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nilesh Fernando (Notre Dame)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Dillon (Cornell University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amit Khandelwal (Columbia University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 4\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rick Hornbeck (University of Chicago)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 11<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michela Giorcelli (University of California, Los Angeles)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gerard Roland (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alessandra Voena (Stanford University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fernando Vega Redondo (Bocconi University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2021<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajay Shenoy (UC Santa Cruz, Visiting Scholar)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Felipe Valencia (University of British Columbia Vancouver)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 27<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alberto Bisin (New York University, Visiting Scholar)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bilge Erten (Northeastern University, Visiting Scholar)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 12<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Blattman (University of Chicago)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 18<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ernesto Dal Bo (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 1<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tavneet Suri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 8<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 15<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela Scur (Cornell University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 6<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natalia Ramondo (Boston University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marc Rysman (Boston University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2020-2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Spring 2021<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 1<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martha Bailey (University of California, Los Angeles)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 8<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treb Allen (Dartmouth University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 15<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristian Pop-Eleches (Columbia University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 22<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aradhya Sood (University of Toronto)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar. 29<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Qian (Northwestern University, Distinguished Visitor)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Apr. 5<\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Kortum (Yale University, Distinguished Visitor)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 12<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Petra Moser (New York University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Blattman (University of Chicago)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apr. 26<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\u00d6mer \u00d6zak (Southern Methodist University)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fall 2020<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don Davis (Columbia University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 5<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rachel Brule (Boston University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 19<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 26<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clare Balboni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Marx (Sciences Po)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 16<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreet Kaur (University of California, Berkeley)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 23<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaivan Munshi (Yale University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 30<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caroline Theoharides (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erika Deserranno (Northwestern University)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>2019-2020<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All Spring 2020 seminars were canceled due to COVID-19<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Speaker<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 16<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessie Handbury (Wharton)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 23<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahesh Karra (BU Pardee)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sept. 30<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mishfiq Mobarak (Yale)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jean-Paul Carvalho (UC Irvine, visiting Harvard)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 28<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi, visiting Duke)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Klaus Desmet (SMU, visiting Brown)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 11<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gabriella Santangelo (University of Cambridge, visiting BU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 18<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marianne Wanamaker (Tennessee)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Fiszbein (BU)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kamran Bilir (Wisconsin)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dec. 9<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matteo Bobba (TSE, visiting Princeton)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Development Reading Group<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Development Reading Group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gives students the opportunity to discuss recent publications in development and research in progress. Graduate students and junior faculty attend the meetings. For questions, please contact <span>Srishti Sharma (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:stsharma@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"mailto:stsharma@bu.edu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stsharma@bu.edu<\/a><span>) or Shengqi Ni (<\/span><a href=\"mailto:lightni@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" contenteditable=\"false\" title=\"mailto:lightni@bu.edu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lightni@bu.edu<\/a><span>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Links: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/alotdn28v3pj7m1mvojdlma6rs%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iCal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?mode=AGENDA&amp;src=alotdn28v3pj7m1mvojdlma6rs%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/New_York\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Embedded Google Calendar]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please refer to the<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/calendar\/?hl=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Calendar Help Forum<\/span><\/i><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or the user manual of your preferred calendar software\/application (e.g., Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar) and device (e.g., iPhone, Samsung Galaxy) for instructions on how to sync a calendar.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Conferences<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IED is a member of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neudc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northeast Universities Development Consortium<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which sponsors an annual conference that is the major forum in North America for the field of development economics. 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