New Frontiers Series

Social Networks and Agricultural Markets

Jeremy Magruder
Thu
Mar
23
Add To Calendar
Date
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time
4:00pm - 5:30pm US Eastern Time
Event Location
Hesburgh Center C103
Notre Dame, IN 46556
United States
Event Type
New Frontiers Series
This lecture is part of a larger series organized by Faculty Fellow Nilesh Fernando entitled "New Frontiers in Economic Development." First organized in 2013, the series focused on microeconomic poverty interventions. The series now focuses on larger-scale economic issues and their impact in developing countries by featuring distinguished economists who deliver a public lecture as well as participate in a master class with graduate-level economics students. The series is cosponsored by the Department of Economics.

Jeremy Magruder
Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley

Jeremy Magruder will present a lecture on agricultural households and rural labor markets, and a lecture on information networks and social learning. His Kellogg Institute Seminar, “Social Networks and Agricultural Markets” will focus on new research on network transactions in factor markets.


Speakers / Related People
Jeremy Magruder

Jeremy Magruder is a professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.  He studies the microeconomics of agricultural productivity and labor markets in developing countries.  Magruder's research focuses on understanding the market frictions and constraints to employment and productivity growth that are abundant in the developing world...
Read More