Applied Seminar: Martin Mattsson, Yale University

Date and Time
Location
Zoom
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Speaker

Martin Mattsson, Yale University

Biography

Martin Mattsson is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Yale University. His research focuses on how formal and informal institutions shape behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. He has completed two large-scale field experiments in Bangladesh, which study how performance scorecards can change the behavior of government bureaucrats and the effects of village courts. He is also researching the effects of the #MeToo movement on the reporting of sexual crimes to the police.

Event Details

Mattsson will be presenting his Job Market paper, "Service Delivery, Corruption, and Information Flows in Bureaucracies: Evidence from the Bangladesh Civil Service." 

To request the Zoom link, please contact Heather Royer.