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Monday, February 18
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm |
Joel Freundlich
Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Joćo Biehl
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences to Fight Infectious Disease
Sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing, with funding from the Grand Challenges cooperative on Global Health and Infectious Disease
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Wednesday, February 27
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Anne Case
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Christina Paxson
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
"Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages"
Angus Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, Princeton University
"Height, Health, and Inequality: the Distribution of Adult Heights in India"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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Sunday, March 2
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall (lower level)
3:00pm |
K. K. Abraham
President of the Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS
"Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS:A Deadly Synergy"
Co-sponsored with RESULTS
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Wednesday, March 5
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Linda Adair
Professor & Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Nutrition & Fellow, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
"Long Term Consequences of Early Child Health: Insights from the Cebu (Philippines) Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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Wednesday, March 12
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Duncan Thomas
Professor of Economics and Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
"Preferences: Experimental and survey evidence"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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Wednesday, April 9
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Jeffrey Hammer
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Economic Development and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"Chronically Misinformed: Information and Chronic Disease in Delhi"
(with Jishnu Das)
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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CANCELED
Wednesday, April 23
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Daron Acemoglu
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
"TBA"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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Wednesday, April 30
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Jesse Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Faculty Research Fellow in Labor Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research
"Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)
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Wednesday, May 21
300 Wallace Hall
12:15pm |
Amitabh Chandra
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Faculty Research Fellow, IZA Institute, Bonn, Germany and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA
"Racial Disparities in the Quality of Care for Diabetes: Evidence from Extended Hospital Medical Staffs"
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