Past Events

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The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and Office of Sustainability Innovation Dialogue PanelT

Wednesday, 4/25/2012, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Climate Impact and Food Security Co-sponsors: SPHHS and Office of Sustainability Innovation Picture ID/GWID Required Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:00 to 3:00pm

“Does expanding health insurance beyond formal sector workers encourage informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico’s Seguro Popular.”

Tuesday, 11/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Carmen Pages-Serra Inter-American Development Bank For more information, click here. Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room R

The measurement of human development in theory and in practice”

Tuesday, 11/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Eduardo Zambrano California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room

“Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing Versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso”

Tuesday, 11/15/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Travis J. Lybbert University of California Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC-Davis) Co-sponsor: GWU Department of Economics Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:30

Euro at the Crossroads?

Wednesday, 11/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Fred Joutz Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Program on Forecasting, GWU Desmond Lachman Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Holger

Corruption and Conflict

Wednesday, 10/26/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Organized by The Institute for International Economic Policy and Transparency International’s (UK) International Defence & Security Programme To listen to the..

Tariff Binding Overhang: Theory and Evidence

Monday, 10/10/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Mostafa Beshkar Assistant Professor of Economics and Peter T. Paul Research Fellow, University of New Hampshire Prof. Beshkar’s Paper can be found here. Co-spon

Why Cooperate Over Water? Water Has No Borders

Monday, 10/3/2011, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Join the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC for an evening with Gidon Bromberg, Co-Director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) To RSVP for the confer

Volatility in Commodity Markets – Causes and Impacts on the Poor

Thursday, 9/22/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Joachim von Braun Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Professor for Economic and Technological Change at University of Bonn, Germany and f

Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty

Tuesday, 9/20/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Peter Lanjouw Research Department, World Bank Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm John W. Kendrick Seminar Room Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW Washington

Beyond Aid

Wednesday, 9/14/2011, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Robert Zoellick President, World Bank In the run-up to the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Mr. Zoellick will discuss recent developments and the changing world

Advances in Behavioral Finance

Thursday, 5/26/2011, 8:15am - 6:00pm

8:15 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Breakfast 8:45 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks IIEP Director Stephen C. Smith and IMF Institute Deputy Director Eric Clifton 9:00 a.m.-10:30

Petty Corruption

Monday, 4/25/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Interest in corruption (abuse of public o¢ ce for private gains) is not of recent origin. In Arthashastra, Kautilya was concerned, among other themes, in design

A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China

Tuesday, 4/12/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Irina Murtazashvili University of Pittsburgh Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics

Managers’ Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages

Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Luca David Opromolla Banco de Portugal Hosted by the GWU Department of Economics

The Global Economic Crisis: A View from Montenegro

Saturday, 4/9/2011, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Milorad Katnić Finance Minister, Montenegro The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)

Human Rights, Development and Economic Growth – Metrics, New Ways of Thinking, and New Strategies

Thursday, 4/7/2011, 12:30pm - 5:30pm

Since the members of the UN negotiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the world has made great human rights progress. But that progress is..

Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium Redux

Tuesday, 4/5/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Ariell Reshef University of Virginia Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:30 to 2:00pm

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Friday, 4/1/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Rema Hanna Harvard University Download the paper here. Co-sponsored by the GWU Department of Economics............................

Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?

Tuesday, 3/29/2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Andrew Foster with Mark Rosenzweig Brown University & Yale University.................