Development Reading Group

Schedule of Presentations

(Spring 2009)

(Mondays 11-12 @ Blistien 101)

(Please email sailesh_tiwari@brown.edu if you would like to join the Group)

March 16	Sailesh Tiwari	"Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution". Foster and Rosenzweig. AER 1996
March 23	…	SPRING BREAK - No Meeting
March 30	Tianran Dai	"Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences." Mazzocco and Saini. Unpublished 2008
April 6	Mongoljin Batshaikhan	"The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya." Kremer et al. Unpublished 2008
April 13	Jacob Goldston	"Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship." Paulson, Townsend and Karaivanov. JPE 2006
April 20	Florencia Borrescio Higa	"The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal." by Pranab Bardhan, Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar.
April 27	Yongsuk Lee	"Who Benefits from Social Health Insurance? Evidence from the Philippines" by Paul Gertler and Orville Solon
May 4
May 11