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PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

The following is a partial directory of the papers and presentations that scholars have presented at Africa House events. Click on the title to open the document.

"Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrants", by Carola Suarez-Orozco, Co-Director Immigration Studies @ NYU

"Mapping The Journey: Health and Wealth, Love and Luck, From Africa to Legal Permanent Residence in the United States", by Guillermina Jasso, NYU

"Optimal Migration", by Jess Benhabib and Boyan Jovanovic, NYU

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Immigration but Were Afraid to Ask Economists", by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Co-Director, Immigration Studies @ NYU

"Global Wage Differences and International Student Flows", by Mark R. Rosenzweig, Yale University

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Africana Seminar
October 19, 2006

"Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions To Estimate the Impacts", Dean Karlan, Yale University

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Africana Seminar
March 2, 2006

"The Modern Impact of Precolonial Centralization in Africa", Nicola Gennaioli, IIES, Stockholm University

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Africana Seminar
October 6, 2005

"Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption", Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard

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Millennium Development Goals Discussion
September 15, 2005

"Rescuing the MDGs: Paying for results", Nancy Birdsall, CGD

"Fighting World Poverty Growth, health and policy", Angus Deaton, Princeton

"Contracting for Health", Micheal Kremer, Harvard

"Why The Millennium Development Goals Idea is Failing", William Easterly, NYU

 

 

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