Development Workshop, 1997/98 - 2003/04
(Prior to 2007/08, this was called Trade and Development Workshop)
| 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events are listed by year
2003/04 | |
Sep. 8 | Richard Akresh, Yale University, "Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Ethan Ligon, Berkeley, "Efficiency Wages for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Consumption and Nutrition in the Philippines" [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Angus Deaton, Princeton University, "Measuring Poverty in a Growing World, or Measuring Growth in a Poor World" [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Paul Gertler, Berkeley, "Lost Presents and Presence: How Parental Death Affects Children" [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | David McKenzie, Stanford University, "Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Garance Genicot, Georgetown, "Contracts and Externalities: How Things Fall Apart" [Paper] |
Nov. 3 | Shareen Joshi, Yale University, "The Incidence, Determinants and Consequences of Female Headship in Rural Bangladesh" [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Matthias Schuendeln, Yale University, "Firm Dynamics in the Presence of Financing Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms" [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business School, "Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam" [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Andrew Foster, Brown University, "Agricultural Development, Industrialization and Rural Inequality" [Paper] |
Mar. 1 | Chris Udry, Yale University, "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in Ghana" (with Markus Goldstein) [Paper] |
Mar. 22 | Ann Harrison, UC Berkeley, "The Nike Effect: Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia" (with Jason Scorse) [Paper] |
Mar. 29 | Imran Rasul, Graduate School of Business, Chicago University, "Relative and Absolute Incentives: Evidence on Worker Productivity" (with Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay) [Paper] |
Apr. 5 | Koichi Hamada and Masahiro Endo, Yale University, "The Metzler Paradox and the Interpretation of GATT Article XXIV" [Paper] |
Apr. 12 | Siwan Anderson, UBC-Vancouver, "Enforcement and Organizational Design in Informal Saving Groups" (with Jean-Marie Baland, Karl Ove Moene) [Paper] |
Apr. 30 | Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention" (with Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jed Friedman, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Nathan Jones, Christopher McKelvey, Gretel Pelto, Bondan Sikoki, James P. Smith, Cecep Sumantri, Wayan Suriastini) [Paper] Joint with Labor and Population Workshop |
May 3 | Steven Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania, "Mergers and the Composition of International Commerce" (with Volker Nocke) [Paper] |
2002/03 | |
Sep. 9 | Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights" [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Sep. 19 | Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Exports vs. FDI" [Paper] Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
Sep. 23 | Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College, "Vertical Specialization in Multinational Firms" (with Gordon Hanson, and Raymond Mataloni) [Paper] |
Oct. 7 | Stefan Klonner, University of Heidelberg, Visitor, Yale University, "Improving the Performance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Indian Chit Funds Act" |
Oct. 28 | Wolfgang Keller, Brown University and University of Texas, "Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the United States" (with Stephen Yeaple) [Paper] |
Nov. 4 | Ashok Rai, Harvard University, Visitor, Yale University, "Collateral Substitutes in Microfinance" (with Philip Bond) [Paper] |
Nov. 11 | Gustav Ranis, Yale University, "Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth" (with Michael Boozer and Frances Stewart) [Paper] |
Nov. 18 | Noel Maurer, ITAM, Visitor, Yale University, "Do Institutions Matter in Extractive Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1900-1929" [Paper] Joint with Economic History Workshop |
Dec. 2 | Edward Miguel, University of California-Berkeley, Visitor, Princeton University, "Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence from Kenya" [Paper] |
Dec. 9 | Peter Schott, Yale University, "Survival of the Best Fit: Low Wage Competition and the, Uneven) Growth of the US Manufacturing Plants" (with Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen) [Paper] |
Dec. 16 | Stephen Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania, "International Productivity Differences, Infrastructure, and Comparative Advantage" (with Stephen Glub) [Paper] |
Mar. 3 | Peter Debaere, University of Texas, "The Real-Side Determinants of Countries' Terms of Trade" A Panel Data Analysis" [Paper] |
Mar. 24 | Robert F. Owen, University of Nantes and Visiting Professor at Yale, "Fundamental R&D Spillovers and the Internationalization of a Firm's Research Activities" (with Bernard Franck) [Paper] |
Mar. 31 | Eliana La Ferrara, "Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not. Conflict Diamonds and the Value of Firms" [Paper] |
Apr. 14 | Atif Mian, University of Chicago, "Incentives, Supervision, and Organizational Hierarchy: A Loan-Level Investigation of Banking" [Paper] |
Apr. 21 | Alejandro Cunat, London School of Economics, "Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade" [Paper] |
Apr. 28 | Richard Akresh, Yale University, "Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" [Paper] |
May 5 | Lee Branstetter, Columbia University Business School, "Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data" [Paper] |
May 12 | Sofronis Clerides, Yale University, "The Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Used Automobiles" [Paper] |
2001/02 | |
Sep. 10 | Garth Frazer, Yale University, "Linking Firms and Workers: Controlling for Ability Bias in Returns to Education" |
Sep. 24 | Ana Fernandes, Yale University, "Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries" [Paper] |
Oct. 1 | Christopher Udry, Yale University, "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices" |
Oct. 8 | Takashi Kurosaki, Yale University/Hitotsubashi University, "Effects of Education on Farm and Non-Farm Productivity in Rural Pakistan" |
Oct. 15 | Esther Duflo, MIT, "Women's Leadership and Policy Decisions: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India" [Paper] |
Oct. 22 | Nuno Limao, Columbia University, "Trade Policy, Cross-Border Externalities and Lobbies: Do Linked Agreements Enforce More Cooperative Outcomes" |
Nov. 5 | Robert Staiger, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Shifting Comparative Advantage and Accession in the WTO" [Paper] |
Nov. 12 | Xavier Gine, Yale University and University of Chicago, "Access to Capital in Rural Thailand" |
Dec. 3 | Ashok Rai, Harvard University, "Grants vs. Subsidies: Designing Development Banks" [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Robin Burgess, London School of Economics, "Labor Regulation and Economic Performance in India" |
Feb. 4 | Devashish Mitra, Florida International University, "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation" |
Feb. 18 | Gordon Hanson, University of California at San Diego, "International Migration, Self-Selection and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States" [Paper] |
Feb. 25 | Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam" [Paper] |
Mar. 4 | Keijiro Otsuka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, GRIPS), "Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using a Structural Model of US MNCs" |
Mar. 25 | Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin, "Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange Rate Volatility, and Exchange Rate Disconnect (with Michael B. Devereux) [Paper] |
Apr. 1 | Michael Keane, Yale University, "Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using a Structural Model of US MNCs" (with Susan E. Feinberg) [Paper] |
Apr. 8 | Bart van Ark, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, "Capital Formation and Productivity Growth in South Korea and Taiwan: Beating Diminishing Returns Through Realizing the Catch-Up Potential" (with Marcel P. Timmer) [Paper] |
Apr. 15 | Shareen Joshi, Yale University, "Human Capital Investment, Entrepreneurship and Inequality" |
Apr. 18 | Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University, "What Explains the Tariff Growth Paradox, 1875-1997?" [Paper] |
Apr. 22 | Kishore Gawande, University of New Mexico, "PAC Spending Tests of Theories" [Paper] |
Apr. 29 | Steve Redding, London School of Economics, "Factor Endowments and Production in European Regions" (with Mercedes Vera-Martin) [Paper] |
2000/01 | |
Sep. 18 | Kenneth Leonard, Columbia University, "Health Care in Rural Cameroun: Structural Estimation of Production in Terms with Unobservable Effort" [Paper] |
Sep. 25 | Douglas Gollin, Williams College/Yale University, "Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences" (with Stephen L. Parente and Richard Rogerson) [Paper] |
Oct. 2 | Ann E. Harrison, Columbia Business School, "Ownership Versus Environment: Disentangling the Sources of Public Sector Inefficiency" (with Ann P. Bartel) [Paper] |
Oct. 16 | David McKenzie, Yale University, "Consumption Growth in a Booming Economy: Taiwan 1976-1996" [Paper] |
Oct. 30 | Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College, "Who Dies? International Trade, Market Structure, and Plant Closures" (with J. Bradford Jensen) [Paper] |
Nov. 6 | Peter Drysdale, Australian National University, "The New Regionalism in East Asia" |
Nov. 13 | Michael Kremer, Harvard University, "Child Health and Education: The Primary School Deworming Project in Kenya" (with Edward Miguel) [Paper] |
Nov. 27 | Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts, "Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State" |
Dec. 4 | Anandi Mani, Vanderbilt/Yale University, "Democracy and Visibility" (with Sharun W. Mukand) [Paper] |
Dec. 11 | Raymond Fisman, Columbia University, "Does Competition Encourage Cooperation? Evidence from Trade Credit Relationships" (with Mayank Raturi, Swissre) [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented Markets: The Case of Groundwater" (with Rinku Murgai and Saeed Ur Rehman) [Paper] |
Feb. 26 | Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family" [Paper] |
Mar. 19 | Costas Meghir, University College London, "Changes in the Distribution of Wages Accounting for Changes in Employment" |
Mar. 26 | Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University, "Finanical Market Globalization and Endogenous Inequality of Nations" |
Apr. 2 | Peter Schott, Yale University, "Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States" |
Apr. 6 | Robert Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Nature of Financial Constraints: Distinguishing the Micro Underpinnings of Macro Models" |
Apr. 9 | Romain Wacziarg, Stanford University, "Stages of Diversification" |
Apr. 23 | Garth Frazer, Yale University, "The Firm and the Family Network: Measuring the Relative Productivity of Relatives" |
Apr. 30 | Hiroyuki Chuma, Yale University/Hitotsubashi University, "Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm Factors" |
May 7 | Rohini Pande, Columbia University, "Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India" [Paper] |
May 14 | Ashok Guha, JNU/Yale University, "A Comparative Analysis of FDI in Indian and Chinese Development: The Role of the Expatriate" |
1999/00 | |
Sep. 13 | Robert E. Evenson, Yale University, "Agriculture and Economic Development in the Second Half of the 20th Century" |
Sep. 20 | Alwyn Young, University of Chicago, "Transport, Processing and Information: Value Added and the Circuitous Movement of Goods" |
Sep. 27 | Brian A'Hearn, Franklin and Marshall College, "Could Southern Italians Cooperate? Banche Popolari in the Mezzogioriano" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
Oct. 4 | Maitreesh Ghatak, University of Chicago, "Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs" |
Oct. 11 | Esther Duflo, MIT, "Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry" |
Oct. 18 | Sofia Sheidvasser and Hugo Benitez, "Yale University, Returns to Education in Russia" |
Oct. 25 | Kaivan Munshi, University of Pennsylvania, "Learning from your Neighbors: Why Do Some Innovations Spread Faster than Others?" |
Nov. 1 | William Collins, Vanderbilt University, "Race and Home Ownership, 1900-1990" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
Nov. 8 | Stephen Haber, Stanford University, "Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
Nov. 15 | Sherman Robinson, IFPRI, "Reconciling Household Surveys and National Accounts Data Using Cross-Entropy Estimation" |
Nov. 29 | Oded Galor, Browne Hebrew University, "Population, Technology and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond" |
Jan. 18 | Marc Melitz, University of Michigan, "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" |
Feb. 7 | Bill Ethier, University of Pennsylvania, "Unilateralism in a Multilateral World" |
Feb. 14 | Pravin Krishna, Brown University, "Reciprocated Unilateralism: A Political Economy Approach" |
Feb. 28 | Stergios Skaperdas, University of California at Irvine, "The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State" |
Mar. 20 | Jim Levinsohn, University of Michigan, "Estimating Production Functions Using Intermediate Inputs to Control for Unobservables" |
Mar. 27 | Peter Schott, Yale University |
Apr. 17 | Anjini Kochar, Stanford University, "Parental Benefits from Intergenerational Co-Residence: Empirical Evidence from Rural Pakistan" |
Apr. 24 | Student Presentation |
1998/99 | |
Sep. 7 | Kaushik Basu, Cornell University, "Household Labor Supply, Child Labor and Minimum Wage Legislation" |
Sep. 14 | Mark Rosenzweig, University of Pennsylvania, "Women's Teaching, Home Schooling and Economic Growth" |
Sep. 21 | Beata Smarznska, Yale University, "Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies" |
Sep. 28 | Ingrid Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, "Danish Cooperatives in a Comparative Context" |
Oct. 5 | Sanjay DeSilva, Yale University, "Tenancy Contracts as a Solution to Time Constraints of Skilled Farmers" |
Oct. 12 | Vandana Sipahimalani, Yale University, "Household Educational Expenditure and School Choice in Rural India: An Empirical Analysis" |
Oct. 15 | Yuan Chou, Yale University, "Cheaper Dis-Inflation: Coordinating Wage Setting through Incentive-Based Worker-Choice Wages" |
Oct. 19 | Donald Davis, Harvard University, "In Search of the Missing Trade: Theory and Evidence from the OECD" |
Oct. 26 | Wolfgang Keller, University of Texas, Austin, "On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation" |
Nov. 2 | Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College, "Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Skill Differentials?" |
Nov. 9 | Jonathan Morduch, Harvard University, "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? Evidence from Flagship Programs in Bangladesh" |
Nov. 16 | Maristella Botticini, Boston University, "Infectious Marriages: Did the Black Death Affect Tuscan Marriage Markets?" |
Nov. 30 | Andrew Foster, Brown University, "Population Growth, Income Growth and Deforestation: Management of Village Land in India" |
Jan. 25 | Nina Pavenik, Princeton University, "Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants" Joint with Micro/Strategy Seminar |
Feb. 15 | John McLaren, Columbia University, "A Theory of Insidious Regionalism" |
Feb. 22 | Christina Paxson, Princeton University, "Growth, Demographic Structure and National Saving in Taiwan" |
Mar. 1 | James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Factor Quality and Comparative Advantage" |
Mar. 22 | Shang-Jin Wei, Harvard University, "Foreign Investors Before and During the Korean Currency Crisis" |
Mar. 29 | Gur Ofer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, "Trade, Trade Policy and Foreign Exchange Regime under Transition: Russia and the Dutch Disease" |
Apr. 5 | Andres Velasco, New York University, "Financial Fragility and the Exchange Rate Regime" |
Apr. 12 | Clive Bell, University of Heidelberg, Germany, "Inequality and Economic Performance in Rural India Since 1955" |
Apr. 19 | Pinelopi Goldberg, Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University, TBA |
Apr. 26 | Koichi Hamada, Yale University, "Incentive Mechanisms Surrounding International Monetary Institutions" |
May 3 | Ernest Aryeetey, University of Ghana, TBA |
1997/98 | |
Sep. 8 | Nadia Soboleva, Yale University, "Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Policy: Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the United States" |
Sep. 15 | Jean Lanjouw, Yale University, "The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: "Heartless Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering"?" |
Sep. 22 | T. Paul Schultz, Yale University, "Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How Is It Changing and Why" |
Sep. 29 | Beata Smarzynska, Yale University, "Gravity Model of International Trade Reconsidered" |
Oct. 6 | Andrew Bernard, Yale University, SOM, "Trends and Transitions in Long-Run Growth" |
Oct. 13 | Jonathan Eaton, Boston University, "Technology and Bilateral Trade" |
Oct. 20 | Nader Habibi, Yale University, "Popular Attitudes Towards Market Institutions in Iran, Turkey and the Former Soviet Union" |
Oct. 27 | Carol Shiue, Yale University, "Grain Trade and Storage in the Mid-Qing: 1742-1795" Joint with Economic History Workshp |
Nov. 3 | Keijiro Otsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan University and IFPRI, "Land Tenure and Forest Management in Asia" Joint with Natural Resources Workshop |
Nov. 10 | Kirit Parikh, Indira Ghandi Institute of Development Research, "Rice Trade Liberalization in India: Accounting for Large Country Effect in an Applied General Equilibrium Model" |
Nov. 19 | Workshop on Governance Issues in South Asia Session 1: India Session 2: Bangladesh and Pakistan |
Dec. 1 | Giovanni Maggi, Princeton University, "Politically Motivated Trade Agreements" |
Dec. 8 | Sofronis K. Clerides, Yale University, "Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco" |
Jan. 27 | Calgar Ozden, Stanford University, "Efficiency Gains from Multilateral Trade Agreements" |
Feb. 9 | Claus Chr. Pörtner, University of Copenhagen, "Children as Insurance" |
Feb. 23 | Xiaokai Yang, Harvard/Monash Universities, "Empirical Evidence for the Endogenous Growth Generated by Evolution in Division of Labor" |
Mar. 2 | James Robinson, University of Southern California, "When Is a State Predatory?" |
Mar. 23 | Ricardo Paes de Barros, IPEA, Brazil, "Labor Market Imperfections and the Level of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America" |
Apr. 6 | Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, "Did Late Nineteenth Century Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the Tinplate Industry, 1869-1913" |
Apr. 13 | Koichi Hamada, Yale University/IMF, "Africa and Macroeconomics" |
Apr. 20 | Shang-Jin Wei, Kennedy School of Government, "Harvard University, How Taxing Is Corruption on International Investors?" |
Apr. 27 | Giovanni Maggi, Princeton University, "Talent, Diversity and International Trade" |
May 4 | Dan Trefler, University of Toronto, "Increasing Returns to Scale and All That: A View from Trade" |
May 11 | Wallace Huffman, Iowa State University, "An Examination of Profit Inefficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana" |