The Development Lunch Workshops are operated with support from the Becker Friedman Institute and The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and is a collaboration between Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, Booth School of Business, Harris School of Public Policy and the Law School.
This workshop series is weekly on Fridays from 12:30-2:00 p.m CST.
This workshop is intended for University of Chicago faculty, students and staff.
All times listed below are Central Standard Time.
Agenda
Retrieval Failures in Consumption Smoothing: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Poverty
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley
Coercive Growth: Forced Resettlement, Agglomeration, and Economic Development in Malaysia
Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu, University of Chicago
Forging Apartheid: Market Access and the Rise of National Identity in Colonial South Africa
Laura Montenegro, University of Chicago
Meritocracy
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
The Welfare Implications of Private School Vouchers: Evidence from India
Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago
Do Small Firms Partially Insure Customers from Price Increases? Evidence from Retail Firms in Tanzania
Jess Rudder, University of Chicago
Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University
Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fear and Contraception Take-Up
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University