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Virtual Development Economics Series

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VDEV/CEPR/BREAD Seminars is an online seminar series, featuring invited speakers in the area of Development Economics. It was set up in the spring semester of 2020 as the VDEV seminar and is now organised jointly by the group of researchers below, CEPR and BREAD.

The seminars are held on Zoom and consist of a 45-minute presentation, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. A moderator collects questions on the chat and selects a few of general interest to be asked to the speaker at reasonable intervals to keep the flow of the seminar. All participants are muted, and interactions with the speaker are through the chat with the moderator. In the Q&A portion the moderator opens the microphone up to those participants who have indicated they have a question in the chat with the moderator.

In order to join the webinar, please ensure that you register using the link below to receive the Zoom joining link.

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Register on Zoom for the Spring 2025 programme

The Spring 2025 sessions of the Virtual Development Economics Series will start on the 11th of March 2025 and will take place virtually, bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 16h00 CET / 15h00 GMT / 10h00 EDT* / 07h00 PDT* until the 3rd of June 2025. 

*NOTE FOR ATTENDEES BASED IN THE UNITED STATES: Due to the Daylight Saving Time change, the seminars in March will be at 11h00 EDT/08h00 PDT, then they will revert to our usual time of 10h00 EDT/07h00 PDT. 

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Spring 2025 Programme

  • VDEV 61 - 11 March 2025: Clément Imbert (Sciences Po, BREAD and CEPR) - Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity  

  • VDEV 62 - 25 March 2025: Ach Adhvaryu (University of California, San Diego and BREAD) - The Economic Impacts of Earned Wage Access for Low-income Workers
  • VDEV 63 - 8 April 2025: Joe Kaboski (University of Notre-Dame and BREAD) - Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban
  • VDEV 64 - 22 April 2025: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University, BREAD and CEPR) - Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh
  • VDEV 65 - 6 May 2025: Joana Naritomi (London School of Economics, BREAD and CEPR)
  • VDEV 66 - 20 May 2025: Melanie Morten (Stanford University, BREAD and CEPR)
  • VDEV 67 - 3 June 2025: Oeindrila Dube (University of Chicago, BREAD and CEPR)

 

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