| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Fall 2005 |
Sept. 27, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Zamparelli Room |
Raymond Fisman
Associate Professor of Economics & Finance, Columbia University,
Graduate School of Business
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 2005-2006 |
"Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatization" |
Oct. 4, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Zamparelli Room |
James Robinson
Professor of Government, Harvard University |
"Income and Democracy" |
Oct. 17, 2005
11:50 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Sandra Black
Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 2005-2006 |
"From the Cradle to the Grave? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult
Outcomes of Children" |
Oct. 25, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Cabot Hall 703 |
Robert J. Barro
Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
"Which Countries Have State Religion?" |
Nov. 1, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Zamparelli Room |
Enrico Spolaore
Professor of Economics, Tufts University |
"The Diffusion of Development" |
Nov. 8, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Large Conference Room |
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Ecole Normale Superieur |
"The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing" |
Nov. 15, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Large Conference Room |
Roland G. Fryer,
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University |
"The Plight of Mixed Race Kids" |
Nov. 16, 2005
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall |
Fall 2005 Wellington-Burnham Lecture:
Alvin Roth,
George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Harvard
University, Department of Economics and Harvard Business School
Reception to follow the event
Selected Papers of Professor Roth:
"The Economist as Engineer"
"The Collapse of a Medical Labor Clearinghouse"
"A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England" |
"The Economist as Engineer" |
Nov. 22, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Braker Hall, Room 318 |
Andros Kourtellos
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus |
"How Robust are the Linkages between Religiosity and Economic
Growth?"
(with Steven N. Durlauf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chih Ming
Tan, Tufts University). |
Nov. 29, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center,
Large Conference Room |
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist, World Bank |
"The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property: The
Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization" |
Dec. 6, 2005
5:00 p.m.
Mayer Campus Center, Large Conference Room |
Rajeev Dehejia
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 2005-2006 |
"The Business Cycle and Babies' Health: Further Results"
(with Adriana Lleras-Muney) |
| Spring 2006 |
January 23, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Benjamin A. Malin
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University |
"Lower-Frequency Macroeconomic Fluctuations: Living Standards and
Leisure" |
January 25, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Joshua Fischman
Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Uniformity of Interpretation in a Hierarchical Court" |
January 30, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Pascaline Dupas
Ph.D. Candidate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Visiting Scholar & Lecturer, New York University |
"Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV
in Kenya" |
February 1, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Violetta Dalla
Ph.D. Candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science |
"Reexamining the Long-Run Properties of the Real Interest Rate" |
February 8, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
David J. Cooper
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University |
"Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations"
Adapted from Prof. Cooper's following papers:
"A Change Would Do You Good..."
"It's What You Say Not What You Pay" |
February 22, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Elsa Artadi
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University |
"Going into Labor: Earnings vs. Infant Survival in Rural Africa" |
February 27, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Larry Chavis
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
"Decentralizing Development: Allocating Public Goods via Competition" |
March 28, 2006
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Michael Klein
Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University |
"Establishing Credibility: Evolving Perceptions of the European Central
Bank" |
March 30, 2006
5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Mugar Hall, Room 235 |
Gordon Hanson
Professor, University of California, San Diego |
"Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States" |
April 11, 2006
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Ross Levine
Professor, Brown University |
"Finance, Firm
Size, and Growth" |
April 18, 2006
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Braker Hall 01 |
Alan
Kirman
Institute for Advanced Study,
School of Social Science |
"Chasing Identity" |
April 24, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 318
Brown Bag Seminar |
R.
Bruce Hitchner
Professor, Department of Classics, Tufts University |
"Economic Growth in the Roman Empire?" |
April 28, 2006
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Barnum Hall 08
Reception to precede the event from 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
2006 Birger Lecture:
John B. Taylor
Professor, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution |
"Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International
Finance in the Post 9/11 World" |
May 2, 2006
3:30 pm- 5:00 pm.
Braker Hall 01 |
Dean Karlan
Assistant Professor, Yale University |
"Research and Development for Microfinance: An Example Testing Group
versus Individual Liability in the Philippines" |
