PSSD Seminar in 2016 - 2017

List of interventions during the academic year 2016 - 2017

Thursday, May 18th 2017

Sylvie Demurger (Gate – CNRS, Lyon), “Unequal Productivity Gains in Urban China”, with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Shi Li and Jianguo Wang

Thursday, May 11th 2017

Raphael Franck (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Durée", with Stelios Michalopoulos


Thursday, April 27th 2017

Marco Manacorda (CEP, LSE), “Liberation technology. Mobile phones and political mobilisation in Africa”.

Thursday, Mach 16th 2017

Alok Bhargava (University of Maryland), “A longitudinal analysis of internal migration, divorce and well-being in China”, with Xiayun Tan

Thursday, February 23rd 2017 - Full day at AFD (Agence Française de Développement)

AFD-Sorbonne Seminar: Demographic Challenges in Africa

Thursday, January 19th 2017

Frédéric Docquier (UCL, IRES, Louvain), "The Geography of Educated Elites: Development Implications and Long-Run Prospects", with Michal Burzynski and Christoph Deuster

Thursday, December 15th 2016

Thursday & Friday, December 8th-9th 2016 - Development Economics Doctoral Days

Co-organized by LEO (Univ. Orléans), CES (Univ. Paris 1), CERDI (Univ. Auvergne), Graduate Institute Geneva, ERUDITE (Univ. Paris Est).

Thursday, November 24th 2016

Toman Barsbaï (IFW, Kiel), “Training migrants before they leave: A randomized evaluation of pre-departure training for migrants from the Philippines to the US” with Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson, Dean Yang

Thursday, October 6th 2016

Véronique Gille (IRD, DIAL), “Sex-selective Abortion: Measuring the Who, How Many& How Often” with Aditi Dimri and Philipp Ketz.