Departmental Seminar with Rema Hanna (HKS)

Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).  She serves as the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL South-East Asia in Indonesia and the co-Scientific Director of the Social Protection Initiative, a joint initiative of J-PAL and CID in Morocco.  In addition, she is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development  (BREAD). 

Her research revolves around improving the provision of public services in developing and emerging nations, particularly for the very poor.  She combines economic theory, qualitative field work, extensive data collection, and cutting-edge empirical analysis to offer insights into how governments function and how they can do better.  Her work has been published in leading economics journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy, among others.  

Rema Hanna's website

She will present a paper, joint with Esther Duflo, Benjamin A. Olken, and Shreya Tandon, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

The Limits of Government Outsourcing: Property Tax Re-Assessments in India (read paper)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF) on March 23rd.