PSSD Seminar in 2017 - 2018
List of interventions during the academic year 2017 - 2018
During this academic year, the PSSD seminar welcomed four researchers from American institutions (Princeton U., Tufts U., Maryland U.), eight researchers from European institutions (Queen Mary U. of London, UCL, Pompeu Fabra, TOBB, U. of Bologna, U. of London, WIDER, U. of Copenhague, Imperial College) one researcher from Palestine (U. of Jerusalem) and one researcher from India (Indian School of Business)
Thursday, June 14th 2018
Christophe Nordman (IRD, DIAL, IZA, IFP), "The determinants of trust: Evidence from rural South India".
Thursday, May 31st 2018
Maria Rosales Rueda (Princeton U.), "Reducing the cost of remoteness: the effects of community health workers programs on maternal and children's health in Madagascar".
Thursday, May 17th 2018
Katharina Hauck (Imperial College), "The impact of US Workplace Breastfeeding Legislation on Mothers' and Fathers' workplace absenteism".
Thursday, April 19th 2018 - Full day at AFD (Agence Française de Développement)
"Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Social Cohesion", Full Program and Registration.
Thursday, April 5th 2018
Finn Tarp (Director UNU, WIDER and U. of Copenhagen), "Aid and Growth in Perspective"
Thursday, March 22nd 2018
Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts U.), "Drilling the Drought? The Industrial Organization of Groundwater"
Thursday, March 8th 2018
Alok Bharghava (U. of Maryland), "Climate change, rice production and groundwater depletion in India"
Thursday, February 15th 2018
Giovanni Prarolo (U. of Bologna), "Human Smuggling and Intentions to Migrate: Global Evidence from a Supply Shock along Africa-to-Europe Migration Routes"
Thursday, February 1st 2018
Dan Li (Fudan U.), "Reputation Building of a Nascent Government in Debt Financing - Lessons from the Bond Market in China, 1912-37"
Thursday, January 18th 2018
Juan Pablo Rud (U. of London), "Climate change and agriculture: Farmer adaptation to extreme heat", with Fernando M. Aragón (Simon Fraser University) and Francisco Oteiza (University of London).
Thursday, December 14th 2017
Alain Desdoigts (UP1-IEDES), "Learning by doing, inequality and sustained growth: a middle class perspective" with Fernando Jaramillo (U. Del Rosario).
Thursday, November 23rd 2017
Gunes Asik (TOBB), "The impact of terrorism and migration crisis on Female employment".
Thursday, November 9th 2017
Judith Vall Castello (UPF), "Effect of health insurance on the mortality of undocumented immigrants: the case of the 2012 Spanish health reform" with Arnau Mestres (UPF) and Guillem Casasnovas (UPF).
Thursday, October 19th 2017
Grégoire Rota Graziosi (CERDI), "Inteministerial Tax competition: the Case of Resource Rich Developing Countries" with Emilie Caldeira (CERDI), Ali Compaore (UNIDO), and Alou Adessé Dama (CERDI).
Thursday, October 5th 2017
Tarun Jain (ISB), "Can Gender Attitudes be Changed? Evidence from a School-based Experiment in India", with Diva Dhar (Gates Foundation) and Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University).