The Tufts University Economics Department sponsors research
seminars, lectures, and events throughout the year.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 21, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Cabot, Rm. 703 |
Shinsuke Tanaka, Assistant Professor of Economics,
The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
Access to Health Infrastructure in South Africa |
September 26, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Mugar 235 |
Kelsey Jack, Assistant Professor of
Economics, Tufts University |
No margin, no mission? A Field Experiment
on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks |
October 3, 2011
12:00-3:00 p.m.
51 Winthrop Street |
Joshua Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT
James Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank
Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University. et al. |
Philip Green Wright, Double Jumbo and Inventor of
IV Regression (Wellington Burnham Lecture) |
October 5, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Mugar 235 |
Christopher Ksoll, Research Officer,
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University |
Why do some school inputs improve skills and other do not? |
*Updated location*
October 12, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Mugar 235 |
Isaac Mbiti, Assistant Professor of
Economics, SMU/Dedman College and MIT |
Secondary Schooling in Kenya |
*Updated location*
*Updated date/time*
October 20, 2011
4:30-5:45 p.m.
Tisch Library, Rm. 304
|
Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of
Economics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
Mobile Money Transfers in Niger |
October 27, 2011
4:30-5:45 p.m.
Tisch Library 314 |
Claudio Ferraz, Associate Professor of
Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de
Janeiro |
Does Oil Make Leaders Unaccountable?
Evidence from Brazil's Offshore Oil Boom |
November 7, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Mugar 235 |
Frank-Borge Wietzke, Department of International Development, London School of Economics |
The Long Shadow of History: 19th Century Missionaries, Educational Mobility, and School Investments in Madagascar |
November 14, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Lincoln Filene Hall, Rabb Room |
Jim Berry, Assistant Professor
of Economics, Cornell University |
Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay:
Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana |
*Updated event*
November 16, 2011
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Tisch Library, Rm. 304 |
Kristin Forbes, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics,
MIT Sloan School of Management |
Bubble Thy Neighbor: Direct and Spillover Effects of Capital Controls |
*Updated location*
*Updated time*
November 21, 2011
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Tisch Library, Rm. 304 |
Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professor of Global Health,
Harvard School of Public Health |
Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria
Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial |
November 28, 2011
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Mugar, Room 200 |
Tomoo Kikuchi, Assistant Professor of Economics,
National University of Singapore |
Self-fulfilling Beliefs, Poverty Trap and Endogenous Cycles |
*Updated location*
December 1, 2011
4:30-5:45 p.m.
Mugar, Room 235 |
Saumitra Jha, Assistant
Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
Trade Shocks, Mass Movements and Decolonization: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle |
*Updated location*
*Updated time*
December 5, 2011
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Braker, Rm. 222 |
Graziella Bertocchi, Professor of
Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena,
Italy |
Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants
of Development in Mississippi |
