The Development Lunch Seminars are operated with support from the Becker Friedman Institute and The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts.

This lunch met on Fridays from 12:30-1:30 pm in Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 203.

Agenda

Friday, March 30, 2018

From Isolation to Radicalization: Anti-Muslim Hostility and Support for ISIS in the West

Friday, April 6, 2018

The Economic Value of Crime Control / Estimating Demand for Reliable Off-Grid Electricity in Rural India (with Anant Sudarshan and Michael Greenstone)

Friday, April 13, 2018

Corrupt Hierarchies (joint work with Kristof Titeca)

Friday, April 27, 2018

The Household- and Aggregate-Level Fertility Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy

Friday, May 4, 2018

How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Estimates?

Friday, May 11, 2018

"Improving property tax collection in South Delhi: Reducing property owner and monitor incentives to misreport" and "Farms or Factories? Sectoral Reallocation, Trade, and the Aggregate Consequences of Climate Change"

Friday, May 18, 2018

The Indian Health Insurance Experiment: Preliminary Results after 18 months

Friday, May 25, 2018

Social Ties and the Delivery of Development Programs

Friday, June 1, 2018

Extractive Resource Policy and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Mining Reform in the Philippines