Trade and Development Seminars - Fall Semester 2009

This seminar will be held every Friday at 10:30 am in room 119 Classroom Office Building unless otherwise noted. The seminar will end @ 11:45 am.

• Sep. 18           (ApEc Department Seminar) 
  
  
• Sep. 25           Misty Heggeness, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present “Evidence of shifts in intra-household allocation under exogenous changes in family policy and administrative procedures: The case of school enrollment in Chile.” 
  
  
• Oct. 2              No seminar
  
  
• Oct. 9              David McKenzie, Senior Economist, The World Bank, will present "Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty.” Paper co-authored with Peter Lanjouw (World Bank) and Jill Luoto (UC Berkeley) and available online http://www.apec.umn.edu/documents/Luoto Lanjouw McKenzie paper T&D F09.pdf
  
  
• Oct. 16            Shinya Takamatsu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present "Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Spillover Effects within Households in Nicaragua.”
  
  
• Oct. 23            Eugenie Maïga, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present "The Impact of Mother’s Education on Child Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Burkina Faso."
  
  
  
• Oct. 30            Omar Da'ar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present "Trade in genetically modified-sensitive industries and role of biotechnology, innovation and intellectual property rights protection: Cross country analysis." (in Room 230)
  
  
• Nov. 6             Uttam Sharma, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present “Public and Private Schools in Nepal: A Comparative Perspective.”
  
  
  
• Nov. 13           Cristina Vinyes, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, will present “Dynamic Constraints to Growth: the Case of Brazil." (in Room 230)
  
  
• Nov. 20           Departmental Faculty Retreat (probably no seminar) 
  
  
• Nov. 27           THANKSGIVING (no seminar) 
  
  
• Dec. 4             Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University, will present “Productivity Effects Of Land Reform: A Study of Disaggregated Farm Data in West Bengal, India.” Paper co-authored with Pranab Bardhan and available online here.
  
  
• Dec. 11           Dr. Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, will present “Nutrition, Care and Education:  Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in China."

Archives of Past Trade and Development Seminars