| Forthcoming CDE Seminars | 
- Seminar by Sneha Lamba (IIT Delhi)  Topic : Do conditional cash transfers affect time investments in education? Evidence from Kanyashree Prakalpa in India Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 3:10 PM, IST. 
| Past CDE Seminars | 
- Esther Duflo, MIT  Topic : The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India. Date : Friday, 7th November 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Vijayendra Rao, The World Bank  Topic : The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India. Date : Monday, 3rd November 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Rohini Somanathan, Centre for Development Economics and Department of Economics, (DSE)  Topic : Community contracts – An experimental investigation of rule formation in Indian villages. Date : Thursday, 30th October 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Balbir Sihag , University of Massachusetts, Lowell  Topic : Kautilya on Engineering Shared Prosperity. Date : Tuesday, 28th October 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Kamal Saggi , Vanderbilt University, Nashville  Topic : Compulsory Licensing and Patent Protection: A North-South Perspective. Date : Tuesday, 21st October 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Ram Singh , Department of Economics, University of Delhi  Topic : Competing Under Uncertainty. Date : Thursday, 16th October 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Diane Coffey , Princeton University and CDE  Topic : Maternal Nutrition in India & Sub-Saharan Africa. Date : Thursday, 25th September 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Joachim Betz , Director, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg  Topic : International Monetary and Financial Order. Date : Friday, 19th September 2014 at 11:30 AM 
- Dean Spears , Rice Institute and CDE  Topic : Revealed Preference for Open Defecation: Evidence from a New Survey in Rural North India. Date : Thursday, 18th September 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Sebastian Vollmer , University of Goettingen  Topic : Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries. Date : Thursday, 4th September 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Pulapre Balakrishnan , Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum  Topic : The mechanism of long-term growth in India. Date : Friday, 22nd August 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Jose Asturias , Georgetown University  Topic : Misallocation, Internal Trade, and the Role of Transportation Infrastructure. Date : Thursday, 14th August 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Ketki Sheth , University of California, San Diego  Topic : The Distributional Consequences of Micro Health Insurance: Can a Pro-Poor Program Prove to be Regressive? Date : Monday, 11th August 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Gurleen Popli , University of Sheffield  Topic : Persistent Poverty and Children’s Cognitive Development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Date : Thursday, 7th August 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Shasikanta Nandeibam , University of Bath, UK  Topic : A Linear Programming Approach to Probabilistic Rationalizability. Date : Monday, 4th August 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Rohini Pande , Harvard University  Topic : Why are Indian Children Shorter than African Children? Date : Tuesday, 29th July 2014 at 2:00 PM 
- Clement Imbert , Oxford University  Topic : Short-term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from India. Date : Monday, 28th July 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Ram Sewak Dubey, Montclair State University  Topic : A Characterization of Ramsey Equilibrium in a Model with Limited Borrowing. Date : Thursday, 24th July 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Youngho Chang, Nanyang Technological University  Topic : Technology, R&D, Endogenous Substitution and Climate Change. Date : Friday, 18th July 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Swapan Dasgupta, Dalhousie University  Topic : Valuation of investment and national income in the theory of intertemporal equity and welfare. Date : Wednesday, 9th April 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Sushama Murthy, University of Exeter  Topic : Necessary and sufficient conditions for an environmental Kuznets curve with some examples. Date : Thursday, 27th March 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Gunjan Sharma, World Bank  Topic : Friend or foe or family? A tale of formal and informal plants in India. Date : Thursday, 20th March 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Prof. Prabhu Pingali, Professor – Director, Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative  Topic : Agriculture for Nutrition – Getting Policies Right. Date : Friday, 7th March 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Nicholas Lawson, Aix-Marseille School of Economics  Topic : Taxing the Job Creators : Efficient Progressive Taxation with Wage Bargaining. Date : Thursday, 6th March 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Clive Bell, University of Heidelberg, Germany  Topic : The Effects of NREGA on Loan Contracts. Date : Thursday, 20th February 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- N. Kundan Kishor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  Topic : What Moves the Price-Rent Ratio? A Modifi ed Present-Value Approach. Date : Thursday, 13 th February 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- David Mare, Motu Research in Wellington, New Zealand  Topic : Earnings Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment. Date : Wednesday, 12 th February 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Arnab K. Deb, International Management Institute, Delhi  Topic : Economic Reforms and Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Manufacturing: An Inter-State Analysis. Date : Thursday, 6th February 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Dean Spears, Centre for Development Economics  Topic : Can an improving disease environment explain the Indian calorie consumption decline puzzle?. Date : Thursday, 30th January 2014 at 3:00 PM 
- Manasa Patnam, CREST (ENSAE)  Topic : Risk-Sharing with (Dis) Aggregate Shocks. Date : Friday, 13th December 2013 at 3:00 PM