Friday Seminar with Xi Jin (ScPo PhD) & Jack Willis (Sciences Po)

Xi Jin is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sciences Po working on a thesis entitled Data and Product Targeting and Niche Platform under the supervision of Eduardo Perez and Franz Ostrizek.

She will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

Reserve System with Beneficiary-Share Guarantee (read abstract, PDF 41 KB)

Jack Willis is Professor of Economics at the Department. He joined us this year from Columbia University. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), at the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP), and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), he is an Affiliated Professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He was Visiting Faculty member in 2023 in the framework of Sciences Po's Columbia Alliance Mobility Programme.

He works in development economics, on questions related to the financial lives of the poor, informal contracting and missing markets, and learning and technology adoption.

Jack Willis' website

He will also present a paper, joint with Lorenzo Casaburi and Sili Zhang, at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:

State Dependence and Commitment: Experimental Evidence from Crop Insurance in Uganda (read abstract, PDF 44 KB)

The next Friday Seminar will host Jeanne COMMAULT (Sciences Po) & Felipe LAURITZEN (Sciences Po) on April 10th.