Seminars & Events
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[Accepting] Professor Jun Goto (GRIPS): Judicial Independence and Economic Development: Evidence from the Constitutional Reinterpretation in India This paper investigates the causal impact of establishing judicial independence on economic development. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the 1993 “Second Judges Case” in India, in which the Supreme Court reinterpreted the constitution to eliminate direct political influence over judicial appointments. Under the new system, judges themselves began selecting High Court appointees, a peer-selection rule that applied to all appointments after 1993. Employing a difference-in-differences approach, we leverage variation introduced by the mandatory retirement age for High Court judges: ne... APL Event Date：2025.07.31 -
[Accepting] Professor Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University): Agricultural Seasonality and Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become one of the most common policy interventions to increase school attendance, but whether and how much their impacts vary throughout the year are not well understood. Using unique daily attendance and rainfall data from a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh, we explore the seasonality in CCT impacts and how the seasonality varies by gender. We find strong evidence that the impact of conditional cash transfers depends on agricultural seasonality. In particular, the impact is substantially higher during the harvest season. On the other hand, there... APL Event Date：2025.07.03