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"Brain and Brawn in Labor Markets in the Tropics: Estimates from Guatemala Using Over Three Decades of Data,"
Invited keynote speaker, Society of Labor Economics (SOLE) Annual Meetings, 6-9 May 2009, Boston, MA.
“Impact Evaluation and Evidence on Young Life Investment Returns,” Young Lives Global Symposium, 12-13 December
2008, St Peter’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Educational Policies and Evaluations in Developing Countries: Some Recent Examples,” public inauguration and open
seminar, Center of Advanced Research in Education (Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación), Santiago
Chile, 2-3 December 2008.
“Commentary on IFPRI and IFS Studies,” III Seminario Internacional Transferencias Condicionadas, Erradicación del
Hambre y la Desnutrición Crónica, FA)-RLC, Santiago de Chile, 1 December 2008.
“What you don’t know can hurt you – or at least mislead you: Family behaviors, unobserved heterogeneity and the
determinants of and impacts of human resources,” Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize Invited Lecture at Latin American and
Caribbean Economic Society (LACEA) Annual Meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 November 2008.
“Research Evidence on Early Education Investment Returns,” Invited Keynote Speaker, International Seminar on “The
Impact of Early Education” sponsored by Chilean Board of National Day Care Centers (JUNJI), 5-7 November 2008.
“Thoughts on Possible Urban Oportunidades Evaluation in 2009”, Seminar for Evaluación Externa del Programa de
Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades 2007-2008, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Mexico City, Mexico, 20
September 2008.
“Longer-Run Effects After Almost a Decade on Child Development, Education and Nutrition of Exposure of Infants and
Toddlers to Oportunidades in 1998-9” (with Lia Fernald, Paul Gertler, Lynnette M. Neufeld and Susan Parker),
Seminar for Evaluación Externa del Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades 2007-2008, Instituto Nacional
de Salud Pública (INSP), Mexico City, Mexico, 18-19 September 2008.
“What Determines Adult Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala”
Williamstown College, Williamstown, MA 12 September 2008.
“ALIneando Incentivos para el Aprendizaje (ALI): Aligning Learning Incentives (ALI) to Improve High School Student
Achievement in Mathematics” (with Susan Parker and Kenneth Wolpin), Washington, DC: Inter-American
Development Bank, 1 July 2008.
“Investing in Nutrition in Early Childhood: How Can the Impacts be Measured?” Invited Keynote Speaker, session on
"Seguimiento, Monitoreo y Evaluación" at Regional Technical Conference on "Hacia la eradicación de la
Desnutrición Infantil en América Latina y El Caribe," El Gobierno de Chile, el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las
Naciones Unidas para América Latina y el Caribe (PMA), y el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo
(PNUD) en representación del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, Santiago de Chile, 5 y 6 de mayo de 2008.
“What Determines Adult Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala,”
London: Department of Economics, University College London, 30 April 2008.
“Economic Context for the International Healthy Start to Life Project,” Wellington, New Zealand, Royal Society of new
Zealand Conference Centre, Meeting of The International Healthy Start to Life Project, 18 April 2008.
“Investing in nutrition in early childhood: How can the returns be measured?” Wellington, New Zealand, Royal Society of
new Zealand Conference Centre, Meeting of The International Healthy Start to Life Project, 18 April 2008.
“Aligning Learning Incentives,” Ministry of Education, Mexico City, Mexico, 7 February 2008.
“IFPRI and the Mexican PROGRESA Anti-Poverty and Human Resource Investment Conditional Cash Transfer
Program,” Policy on Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) Case Study,”, Philippines: Los Baños, International Rice
Research Institute, Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment meeting, 11 December 2007 (via video
participation).
“Evaluación de Programas Sociales: El Caso de Progresa/Oportunidades,” Mexico City, Mexico, 7 December 2007 (Penn
Mexico Club).
“What Determines Adult Skills? Impacts of Pre-School, School-Years and Post-School Experiences in Guatemala,”
Facultad de Economia, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 29 November 2007.
“Designing State of the Art Research on Strengthening Women’s Assets,” IFPRI Consultation on Strengthening Women’s
Control of Assets for Better Development Outcomes, November 13-14, 2007, Washington, DC.
“Lessons from Empirical Network Analyses on Matters of Life and Death in East Africa” (with Hans-Peter Kohler and
Susan Watkins), Conference on “Network-based Strategies and Competencies,” Wharton School of Business and
Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, 8-9 November 2007.
“IFPRI and the Mexican PROGRESA Anti-Poverty and Human Resource Investment Conditional Cash Transfer
Program,” Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 6 November 2007.
“Educational Policy in Developing Countries: Discussion on Four Selected Points,” Education Workshop, Commission on
Growth and Development, Washington, DC: World Bank, 19 October 2007.