Schedule of Presentations

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper/Abstract

Sep 8

      
Sep 15 Edoardo Teso (Harvard University) "The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles"  
Sep 22

Sara Lowes (Harvard Univeristy)

 "Blood Rubber:  The Effects of Labor Coercion on Development and Culture in the DRC"  
Sep 29 Leander Heldring (University of Oxford) TBD  
Oct 6 Sanjay Singh TBD  
Oct 13 No Seminar University Closed  
Oct 20 Jamal Haidar (PSE-Sorbonne) TBD  
Oct 27 Raphael Franck
"Industrial Development and Reversal of Fortune in the Modern
Growth Regime "

 

 

Nov 3

 

 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (Universidad de los Andes) TBD  
Nov 10 David Weil "Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century"  
Nov 17      
Nov 24

 

    
Dec 1 Louis Putterman “An overview of past and anticipated research on how pre-modern development affects comparative economic development today”  
Dec 8 Hyunjoo Yang TBD  
Dec 15 Greg Casey "Instrumental Variables and Long-Run Economic Growth: What are we measuring?"  

If you would like to present, please contact the organizers:

Greg Casey (gregory_casey@brown.edu) and Vaishali Garga (vaishali_garga@brown.edu)