Spring 2024
Faculty Organizer: Chris Barrett
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu
Seminar presentations are held Wednesdays from 1:25 – 2:40 p.m. *unless otherwise noted*
DATE: February 28, 2024 – Joint with SEERE
SPEAKER: Jess Rudder, University of Chicago
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Learning from Weather Forecasts and Adaptation among Cotton Farmers in Pakistan”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
DATE: March 6, 2024 – Joint with SEERE
SPEAKER: Kelsey Jack, UCSB
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Targeting subsidies through price menus: Menu design and evidence from clean fuels”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library
DATE: March 13, 2024 – Joint with Macroeconomics
SPEAKER: Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
DATE: March 20, 2024 – Joint with SEERE
SPEAKER: Clare Balboni, London School of Economics
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Firm adaptation in production networks: Evidence from extreme weather events in Pakistan”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
DATE: March 27, 2024
SPEAKER: Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “The Importance of Being Local: Administrative Decentralization and Human Development”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
DATE: April 16, 2024 – Joint with Econometrics
SPEAKER: Alejandro Sanchez Becerra, Emory University
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Robust inference for the treatment effect variance in experiments using machine learning”
*ROOM: 498 Uris Hall – 11:40 – 12:55 (Tuesday)
DATE: April 24, 2024
SPEAKER: Dean Yang, University of Michigan
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “War Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in India”
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall
DATE: May 1, 2024
SPEAKER: Dave Evans, Inter-American Development Bank
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: 150 Warren Hall