Frontiers in Global Development

The Frontiers in Global Development seminar, co-hosted by the Department of Politics, Department of Economics, and the Batten School, with the generous support of the Bankard Fund. The talks will be variously hosted by Politics, Economics, and Batten – so times and locations (including a mix of virtual and in-person) will vary. For more information please reach out to Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner.

Current and Past Series

2021-2022

Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting

Daniela Scur

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Unshrouding product-specific attributes through financial education

Renuka Sane

Associate Professor, NIPFP

From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America

Melissa Lee

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Internet, Social Media, and the Behavior of Politicians: Evidence from Facebook in Brazil

Claudio Ferraz

Professor, University of British Columbia

No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India

Shoumitro Chatterjee

Assistant Professor, Penn State

Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Local Economic Development in India

Aaditya Dar

Assistant Professor, ISB Hyderabad

Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Jishnu Das

Professor, Georgetown University

Hollowing out the State

Pavitra Suryanarayan

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Aggregate Shocks, Domestic Trade Collapse and Regional Realignment

Kanika Mahajan

Assistant Professor, Ashoka University

2020-2021

Seema Jayachandran

Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

Teresa Molina

Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii

Expanding Financial Access Via Credit Cards: Evidence from Mexico

Aprajit Mahajan

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China

Shaoda Wang

Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms

Siwan Anderson

Professor, University of British Columbia

Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India

Rachel Brule

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Building Trust in Government: The Opportunities and Challenges of Adverse Shocks

Avidit Acharya

Associate Professor, Stanford University

Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information

Francis Annan

Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

In Utero Exposure to Industrial Disasters: A Case Study of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy

Prashant Bhardwaj

Professor, University of California San Diego

The Cyclical Electoral Impacts of Programmatic Policies: Evidence From Education Reforms in Tanzania

Ken Opalo

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

How Do Workers and Firms Search and Match in Low-income Labour Markets? Evidence from a Six-Year Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

Imran Rasul

University College London

Investing in influence: Investors, portfolio firms, and political giving

Ray Fisman

Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics, Boston University

2018-2019

Internal Conflict, Elite Action, and State Failure: Evidence from China, 1000-1911

Mark Dincecco

University of Michigan

Political Leadership and Sovereign Debt Ratings

Irfan Nooruddin

Georgetown University

2017-2018

Seasonal liquidity, rural labor markets, and agricultural production: Evidence from Zambia

Kelsey Jack

Tufts University