PSSD Seminar in 2020 - 2021

Augustin Bergeron (Harvard U.), "Optimal assignment of bureaucrats: evidence from randomly assigned tax collectors in the DRC" with P Bessone, J K Kabeya, G Tourek, J Weigel.

Golvine de Rochambeau (Science Po), "Informational barriers to market access: experimental evidence from Liberian firms" with J Hjort and V Iyer

Elias Papaioannou (LBS), "Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa", with Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann, Stelios Michalopoulos

Felipe Goncalvez (UCLA), "Do police make too many arrests?, with Sungwoo Cho and Emily Weisburst

Catherine Guirkinger (U of Namur), "Behind the Veil of Cultural Persistence: Marriage and Divorce in a Migrant Community", with JP Platteau, Z Wahhaj.

Richard Bluhm (Hannover U. & UCSD), "The political geography of cities", with C Lessman, P Schaudt.

Sarah Langlotz (U of Goettingen), "Foreign Interventions and Community Cohesion in Times of Conflict".

Orazio Attanasio (Yale University & IFS), "Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimension", with R Bernal, M Giannola, M Nores

Pamela Jakiela (Williams College), "A firm of one's own: experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice", with Brudevold Newman, Andrew Peter, Honorati,Maddalena, and Ozier,Owen.

Arthur Silve (U. de Laval), "Frontier Planters, Immigrants, and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil", with François Seyler

Clément Imbert (U. of Warwick), "Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia" with S Franklin, G Abebe, C Mejia-Mantilla

Co-organized by CERDI (Univ. Auvergne), LEO (Univ. Orléans), CES (Univ. Paris 1), Graduate Institute Geneva, ERUDITE (Univ. Paris Est), DIAL (Univ. Paris Dauphine, IRD), Université Hassan II Casablanca.

Kai Gehring (U. of Zurich), "Stimulant or Depresant? Resource-related Income Shocks and Conflict" with S. Langlotz & S Kienberger.

3^rd Workshop on Formal and Information Institutions

Sonya Krutikova (IFS-Institute for Fiscal Studies), "Gender norms and adolescent girls' trajectories. Evidence from a field experiment in India", with A Andrew, A Gautam, G Smarrelli, H Verma.

Nicolas Berman (AMSE), "Natural resources and the salience of ethnic identity", with M Couttenier and V Girard.

Paul Glewwe (U. of Minnesota), "What explains Vietnam's exceptional performace in Education relative to other countries? Analysis of the Young Lives Data from Ethiopia, Peru, India and Vietnam".