CDE Seminars

Seminar by- Ashwini Deshpande, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, 31th August 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic-Do Livelihood Programmes Empower Women? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India

Past Seminars

Seminar by- Dr Federico Lupo-Pasini Lecturer, International Business and Finance Law School of Law Queen's University, Belfast, 24th August 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Is Financial Nationalism on the Rise? A discussion on the logic of cooperation in international finance.

Seminar by- Shareen Joshi, Georgetown University, 10th August 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Jati inequality in rural India

Seminar by- Alok Kumar, Department of Economics, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 3rd August, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Earning Risks, Parental Schooling Investment, And Old-Age Income Support From Children

Seminar by- Rajiv Sethi, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2nd August, 2017 (Wednesday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Meritocracy and Markets

Seminar by- Jonathan Morduch, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, 27th July, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh.

Seminar by- Anusar Farooqui Indian Institute of Management---Udaipur; McGill University; Columbia University, 25th July, 2017 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- The Risk Premium on Balance Sheet Capacity.

Seminar by- Christian Oldiges, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, 4th May, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in India.

Seminar by- Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto, 27th April 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences.

Seminar by- Brishti Guha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 20th April 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Grandparents as Guards: Inheritance and Post Marital Residence in a World of Uncertain Paternity

Seminar by- Girish Bahal, National Council of Applied Economic Research, 13th April 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Employment Guarantee Schemes and Wages in India

Seminar by- Anand Shrivastava, Azim Premji University, 6th April 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Labor Market Effects of Inconsistent Policy Interventions: Evidence From India’s Employment Guarantees

Seminar by- Vidya Soundararajan IIM, Bangalore, 30th March, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Role of Political Activists in Clientelistic Settings: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program

Seminar by- Rinku Murgai, The World Bank , 23th March, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Pathways to Reducing Poverty and Sharing Prosperity in India : Lessons from the Last Two Decades

Seminar by- Elizabeth Webster,Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, 10th March, 2017 (Friday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- The Effect of Patents on Trade

Seminar by- Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland & Senior Fellow, NCAER, 7th March, 2017 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Do Public Works Programs Increase Women’s Economic Empowerment? Evidence from Rural India

Seminar by- Prachi Mishra, Reserve Bank of India , 2nd March, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- The Transmission of Monetary Policy Within Banks: Evidence from India Date

Seminar by- Johannes Urplelainen, Columbia University , 19th January, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Retrospective Voting, Natural Disasters, and Electoral Backlash

Seminar by- Scott Bradford, Brigham Young University ,12th January, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- A General Equilibrium Model of Migration and Poverty

Seminar by- Venoo Kakar, San Francisco State University , 5th January, 2017 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Asset Prices and Optimal Monetary Policy

Seminar by- Prasad S. Bhattacharya, Deakin University , 6th December, 2016 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- The Political Economy of Land Reform Enactment and Implementation: New Cross-National Evidence (1900-2010).

Seminar by- Sheetal Sekhri, University of Virginia, 24th November, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Gendered Consequences of Improving Public Service Delivery

Seminar by- Amit Basole, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 17th November, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Informality and Flexible Specialization: Informal Knowledge, Technical Change, and Labour Market Institutions in the Banaras Silk Weaving Industry

Seminar by- Tarun Gupta , Vice President, AQR Capital Management, 27th October, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Quantitative Investment Strategies: Overview of Theory and Evidence

Seminar by- Sushma Murty, University of Exeter, 20th October, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Measuring unilateral and multilateral gains from tackling current economic inefficiencies in CO2 reductions: Theory and evidence.

Seminar by- Renuka Sane, ISI, New Delhi, Thursday, 22nd September 2016 at 3:00 PM

Topic- Misled and Mis-sold: Financial misbehaviour in retail banks?

Seminar by- Devesh Roy, IFPRI, New Delhi, Thursday, 1st September 2016 at 3:00 PM

Topic- An Application (or Two) of the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) in Policy Evaluation

Seminar by- Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University, 23rd August, 2016 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM

Topic- Student Performance and the Effects of School Quality versus School Fit

Seminar by- Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, 18th August, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM, Seminar Room

Topic- Mandated Political Representation and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Seminar by- Sourav Bhattacharya, Royal Holloway, University of London, 16th August, 2016 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM, Seminar Room

Topic- A Possibility Theorem on Information Aggregation in Elections

Seminar by- Anukriti, Boston College, 11th August, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM, Seminar Room

Topic- Dowry: Household Responses to Expected Marriage Payments

Seminar by- Debasis Mondal, IIT Delhi, 4th August, 2016 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM, Seminar Room

Topic- Private provision of public good and endogenous income inequality