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
Jean-Louis Arcand (IHEI, Geneva), “Autocracy, Political Loyalty and the Causes of the Great Leap Famine”, with Ran Tao, Huayu Xi, Dali Yang
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).
Wednesday, December 7th 2016
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.