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)
Christophe Nordman (IRD, DIAL, IZA, IFP), "The determinants of trust: Evidence from rural South India".
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".
Katharina Hauck (Imperial College), "The impact of US Workplace Breastfeeding Legislation on Mothers' and Fathers' workplace absenteism".
"Cash Transfers, Social Protection and Social Cohesion", Full Program and Registration.
Finn Tarp (Director UNU, WIDER and U. of Copenhagen), "Aid and Growth in Perspective"
Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts U.), "Drilling the Drought? The Industrial Organization of Groundwater"
Alok Bharghava (U. of Maryland), "Climate change, rice production and groundwater depletion in India"
Giovanni Prarolo (U. of Bologna), "Human Smuggling and Intentions to Migrate: Global Evidence from a Supply Shock along Africa-to-Europe Migration Routes"
Dan Li (Fudan U.), "Reputation Building of a Nascent Government in Debt Financing - Lessons from the Bond Market in China, 1912-37"
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).
Alain Desdoigts (UP1-IEDES), "Learning by doing, inequality and sustained growth: a middle class perspective" with Fernando Jaramillo (U. Del Rosario).
Gunes Asik (TOBB), "The impact of terrorism and migration crisis on Female employment".
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).
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).
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).