Welcome, Dr. Lerva! The development group will host visiting scholar Benedetta Lerva in Spring 2021. Benedetta obtained her PhD from Stockholm University and focuses on agriculture and education in sub-Saharan Africa.
Professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are visiting PSE for the 2020-2021 school year. We warmly welcome them back to the Development Group and especially look forward to their comments in seminars! Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Duflo are current professors in MIT’s Economics Department. Along with Michael Kremer, they received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in […]
CEPR-VDEV Webinars is an online seminar series, featuring invited speakers in development economics. It was set up in the spring semester of 2020 as the VDEV webinar to keep engaged with research (and each other!) while we were stuck at home – and now continues with support from CEPR. Now organized by CEPR, the University […]
The CFDS will continue to be held online during 2020-2021.
The development group welcomes Suanna Oh. Starting in fall 2020, Dr. Oh will join the group as an Assistant Professor at Paris School of Economics. Dr. Oh holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Her current work focuses on identifying cultural and behavioral frictions in the labor market using field experiments.
The Development Research group welcomes Clément Imbert, who will visit the Jourdan campus for the month of September. Dr. Imbert is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Research Affiliate at CEPR and JPAL. No stranger to PSE, Clément completed his PhD here in 2012. He currently focuses on internal migration, public […]