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NEUDC DETAILED SCHEDULE (PRELIMINARY) *Coming Soon: Chairs, discussants & links to papers *
November 12‐13, 2011, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, WL Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street & SSS
Each paper is allotted 25 minutes: 15 for the presentation, 5 for the discussant, 5 for questions. Presenters indicated in bold for multi‐
authored papers. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or if you have not yet confirmed attendance/presenters.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration
Location: Commons, 168 Grove Street
9:00 10:40 AM SECTION 1
SESSION 1: HEALTH: INCENTIVES, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper Authors Discussant
A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China
Sean Sylvia; University of Maryland
Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Prakarsh Singh; Amherst College
Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out
Private
Health
Investments?
Malaria
Control Policies in Eritrea
Pedro Carneiro; UCL, Andrea Locatelli;
University
College
London
Integration of Microfinance and Health
Education: Evidence from a Randomized
Controlled Trial in Rural India
Joao Montalvao; University College
London
SESSION 2: SOCIAL CAPITAL, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 119
Paper Authors Discussant
The Diffusion of Microfinance Abhijit Banerjee; MIT, Arun
Chandrasekhar; MIT, Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew O. Jackson; Stanford
University Network Effect and Technology Adoption:
Anti‐Malarial bed nets and Insecticide
Treatments in Orissa, India
Chutima Tontarawongsa; Duke
University
SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND INDIVIDUAL
REPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS
Muthoni Ngatia; Yale University
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks
Garance Genicot; Georgetown
University
SESSION 3: EDUCATION IMPACT EVALUATION, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 114
Paper Authors Discussant
The Search for the Right Incentive: Response to Changes in
the Incentive Scheme of Participants in Conditional Cash
Transfer Programs
Guadalupe Bedoya; University of Chicago
The Short‐Term Impacts of the One Laptop per Child
Program: A Randomized Evaluation
Julian Cristia; Inter‐American Development Bank, Pablo Ibarraran; Inter‐American
Development Bank, Santiago Cueto; GRADE, Ana Santiago; Inter‐American Development Bank, Eugenio Severin; Inter‐American
Development Bank
Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in
Experimental Data: False Discovery Risks and Correction
Procedures
Gunther Fink; Harvard University
Margaret McConnell; Harvard University, Sebastian Vollmer; Harvard University
Assessing the Long‐term Effects of Conditional Cash
Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia
Adriana Camacho; Universidad de los Andes, Javier Baez; The World Bank
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SESSION 4: INTRA‐HOUSEHOLD, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference
and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in
Indonesia
Eliana Carranza; Harvard University
Grandfathers and
Grandsons:
Should
cash
transfers be targeted to women?
Emilio Gutierrez
Fernandez;
ITAM
Laura Juarez; Instituto Tecnologico
Autonomo de Mexico, Adrian Rubli; ITAM
Sibling Rivalry in Education: Estimation of Intra‐household Trade‐offs in Human
capital Investment
Slesh Shrestha; University of Michigan
Is couple's joint decision making associated
with favorable household consumption
patterns for children? Evidence from Cebu, Philippines
John Michael Ian Salas; University of California, Irvine
SESSION 5:
SELF
‐EMPLOYMENT,
CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 207
Paper Authors Discussant
Self Employment in Developing Countries: a
Search‐Equilibrium Approach
Renata Narita; UCL
Self ‐employment and Informality in Africa: Panel Evidence from Satisfaction Data
Bob Rijkers; World Bank, Paolo Falco; Oxford University, Centre for the Study
of African Economies, William Maloney; World Bank, Mauricio Sarrias; Universidad Catolica del norte
Determinants of income in informal self ‐employment: new evidence from a long
African panel
Paolo Falco; Oxford University, Centre
for the Study of African Economies
Learning about Comparative Advantage in
Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand
Anant Nyshadham; Yale University
SESSION 6: POLITICAL ECONOMY: NETWORKS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
CORPORATE NETWORKS AND PEER EFFECTS
IN FIRM POLICIES: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
Manasa Patnam; University of Cambridge
Law and identity manipulation: evidence
from a natural experiment.
Guilhem Cassan; Paris School of Economics
Why are
land
reforms
granting
complete
property rights politically risky? Electoral outcomes of Mexicoâ ™s second land
reform
Alain de
Janvry;
University
of
California
at Berkeley, Marco Gonzalez‐Navarro; University of Toronto, Elisabeth
Sadoulet; University of California at Berkeley
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SESSION 7: CORRUPTION, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 113
Paper Authors Discussant
Can Developing Countries Export Corruption? Evidence from Corporate Tax
Evasion in the United States
Ngoc Anh Tran; Indiana University
Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence
from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil
Stephan Litschig; Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Yves Zamboni; Controladoria‐
Geral da
Uniao
Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Afghanistan
Michael Callen; UCSD, James Long; UCSD
One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Panel Data Evidence from Hometown
Infrastructure in an Autocracy
Kieu‐Trang Nguyen; Indiana University
Quoc‐Anh Do; Singapore Management University, Anh Tran; Indiana University
10:40 – 11:00 AM BREAK
11:00 – 12:40 PM SECTION 2
SESSION 8: AGRICULTURE, CHAIR:
Location:
Room
WLH
119
Paper Authors Discussant
Estimation of a Dynamic Agricultural Production Model with Observed, Subjective Distributions
Brian Dillon; Cornell University
How accurate is recall data? Evidence from
coastal India
Francesca de Nicola; IFPRI Xavier Gine; The World Bank
The Impact of Receiving Price and Weather Information in Colombia’s Agricultural Sector
Adriana Camacho; Universidad de los
Andes. Emily Conover; Hamilton College
SESSION 9: TRADE, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
Information Frictions in Trade Treb Allen; Yale University
Export markets, household businesses, and
formal jobs: Evidence from the U.S.‐Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
Brian McCaig; Australian National University. Nina Pavcnik; Dartmouth
College
Multi‐Product Firms and Exchange Rate
Fluctuations
Rafael Dix‐Carneiro; University of Maryland
Export Competitiveness of Developing
Countries and US Trade Policy
Shushanik Hakobyan; Middlebury
College
SESSION 10: CONFLICT, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Inciting Riots: Testing Whether Rainfall is a
Valid Instrument when looking at Civil Conflict
Heather Sarsons; Harvard University
Lost in Transition? How Civil War Violence
Can Impair the Foundations for Market Development
Pauline Grosjean; University of New
South Wales
Targets of Violence: Evidence from India's Naxalite Conflict
Oliver Vanden Eynde; LSE
Altitude, Genes and Town Names: A Study
of Historical Influence and Political Mobilization
Christopher Paik; Princeton University
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SESSION 11: CHILDREN’S HUMAN CAPITAL, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 114
Paper Authors Discussant
Oportunidades and its Impact on Child
Nutrition
Gabriela Farfan; Duke University
Son‐Preference, Gender Differentials in
Child Labor and Schooling, and Efficiency
Alok Kumar; University of Victoria
LEAD EXPOSURE
AND
ITS
EFFECTS
ON
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE
FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLIGENCE
Tomas Rau;
Universidad
Católica
de
Chile, Loreto Reyes; Ministry of Finance, Sergio Urzua; University of Maryland
Labor Market Opportunities and (Sex‐
Specific) Investment in Children's Human
Capital: Evidence from Mexico
Kaveh Majlesi; University of Texas at Austin
SESSION 12: PROPERTY RIGHTS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 207
Paper Authors Discussant
States, Law, and Property Rights in West
Africa
Ryan Bubb; NYU School of Law
Land Property Rights and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Michele Valsecchi; University of Gothenburg
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure
Insecurity and the Rural to Urban Migration
Decision: Evidence from China
John Giles; World Bank, Ren Mu; Texas
A&M University
SESSION 13: POLITICAL ECONOMY: ELECTIONS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 113
Paper Authors Discussant
The local electoral impacts of conditional cash transfers. Evidence from a field
experiment
Julien Labonne; Oxford University
Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers
in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana
Matthias Schundeln; Goethe University
Frankfurt
Incentives to Vote, Political Preferences
and Information: Evidence from a
Randomized Experiment in Peru
Gianmarco Leon; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Provision of infrastructure and electoral support: Experimental evidence from street pavement
Marco Gonzalez‐Navarro; University of Toronto
SESSION 14: PROBLEMS OF CREDIT MARKETS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper
Authors
Discussant
What Does Debt Relief Do for Development? Evidence from a Large‐Scale
Policy Experiment
Martin Kanz; The World Bank
Christopher Robert; Harvard University
Strategic Default in joint liability groups: Evidence from a natural experiment in India
Xavier Gine; The World Bank
Karuna Krishnaswamy; CGAP
Alejandro Ponce; World Justice Project
Impact Assessment of an Asset Transfer Program to the Ultra Poor
Shamika Ravi; Indian School of Business
External Validity and Partner Selection Bias Hunt Allcott; New York University
Sendhil Mullainathan; Harvard
University
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12:40 – 2:00 PM LUNCH
12:40 – 2:00 PM NEUDC COMMITTEE MEETING
Location:
2:00 – 3:40 PM SECTION 3
SESSION 15: HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT I, CHAIR:
Location: Room
WLH
207
Paper Authors Discussant
Why is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western
Africa? An African Slave Trade Perspective
John Dalton; Wake Forest University
Borders that Divide: Education and Religion
in Ghana and its Neighbors since Colonial Times
Denis Cogneau; Paris School of Economics, Alexander Moradi; University of Sussex
The Lasting Impact of Colonial Educational Policies in Nigeria: Evidence from a Policy
Experiment on Missionary Activity
Horacio Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students
at) MIT
Slave Trade and Polygyny in Africa Lena Edlund; Columbia University
Hyejin Ku; Cornell University
SESSION 16: SAVINGS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
Commitments to Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi
Dean Yang; University of Michigan
Revising Commitments: Time Preference
and Time‐Inconsistency in the Field
Xavier Gine; The World Bank
Jessica Goldberg; University of Maryland, Dan Silverman; University of Michigan, Dean Yang; University of Michigan
Do Simple Savings Accounts Help the Poor to Save? Evidence from a Field Experiment
in Nepal
Silvia Prina; Case Western Reserve
University
On the Impact of Mandatory Basic
Accounts on Financial Development: Evidence from Mexico
Karen Kaiser; Banco de Mexico
Carlos Lever; Banco de Mexico
Alejandrina Salcedo; Banco de Mexico
SESSION 17: GROWTH, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 119
Paper Authors Discussant
Growth and Factor Misallocations: Quantifying and Decomposing Aggregate
Allocative Efficiency
Ajay Shenoy; University of Michigan
Heterogeneous Mark‐Ups and Endogenous
Misallocation
Michael Peters; MIT
How Substitutable are Fixed Factors in
Production? Evidence from Pre‐Industrial England
Joshua Wilde; Brown University
India's Mysterious Manufacturing Miracle Albert Bollard; Stanford University
Peter Klenow; Stanford University
Gunjan Sharma; Univ. of Missouri
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SESSION 18: MIGRATION & MOBILITY, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper Authors Discussant
Magical Transition? Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in
Rural China: 1988‐2002
M. Shahe Emran; George Washington
University, Yan Sun; George
Washington University
Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled
Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth
Christine Binzel; Dartmouth College
Mexicans in America Maria Genoni; Duke University, Luis
Rubalcava; CIDE, Graciela Teruel; Calif.
Center for
Population
Research
Duncan Thomas; Duke University
Chinese Immigration to the United States: History, Selectivity and Human Capital
Joyce Chen; The Ohio State University
SESSION 19: HEALTH: OUTCOMES, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 113
Paper Authors Discussant
The Effect of Access to AIDS Treatment on
Employment Outcomes in South Africa
Zoe McLaren; University of Michigan
Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the
Long‐Term Effects of Early Childhood
Deworming
Owen Ozier; University of California, Berkeley
Early Life Health and Educational Performance: Evidence From Rainfall Fluctuations in the Brazilian Northeast
Rudi Rocha; PUC‐Rio, Rodrigo Soares; PUC‐Rio
Health Investment and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Cluster‐randomized Controlled Trial in Katete
District, Zambia
Gunther Fink; Harvard University
Felix Masiye; University of Zambia
SESSION 20: EDUCATION, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Are Returns to Education on the Decline in
Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a
Role to Play?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere; Georgia Institute
of Technology
Public Education Quality and Private School Enrollment
Fernanda Estevan; University of Ottawa
Buy More, Pay Less: Measuring the
Performance of Pakistani Contract Teachers
Natalie Bau; Harvard University
Jishnu Das; World Bank
Exam versus District Based Selection: Implications on Household Sorting and
Intergenerational Mobility
Yong Suk Lee; Brown University
SESSION 21: LABOR: INCENTIVES, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 114
Paper
Authors
Discussant
Efficient non‐market institution with
imperfect labor market: cooperative
sharing for tropical forest clearing
Yoshito Takasaki; University of Tsukuba, Oliver Coomes; McGill University, Christian Abizaid; University of Toronto, Stephanie Brisson; McGill University
Bidding up agricultural wages: public works and rural labor markets
Clement Imbert; Paris School of Economics
Incentives and Social Preferences in a
Traditional Labor Contract: Evidence from
Rice Planting Field Experiments in the
Philippines
Jun Goto; University of Tokyo
Takeshi Aida; University of Tokyo
Keitaro Aoyagi; University of Tokyo
Yasuyuki Sawada; University of Tokyo
Do Women in China Compete Just as much
as Men? Experimental Evidence from a
Cultural Laboratory
Jane Zhang; UC Berkeley
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3:40 – 4:00 PM BREAK
4:00 – 5:40 PM SECTION 4
SESSION 22: POLITICAL ECONOMY, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 113
Paper Authors Discussant
Redistributive Politics
and
Cash
Transfer
Programs
Matteo Bobba;
Paris
School
of
Economics
Political Connection and Government Patronage: Evidence from Chinese
Manufacturing Firms
Bei Qin; Stockholm University
Political Reform and Elite Persistence: Term
Limits and Political Dynasties in the
Philippines
Pablo Querubin; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Micro Evidence from Kenya
Ameet Morjaria; Harvard University
SESSION 23: HEALTH: LEARNING & BELIEFS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 207
Paper Authors Discussant
Mother's Education and Infant Health: Evidence from Closure of High Schools in
China
Shuang Zhang; Cornell University
How Perceptions of HIV Risk Exposure
Affect Life‐Cycle Fertility: Evidence from
Rural Malawi
Gil Shapira; The World Bank
Learning, Misallocation, and Technology
Adoption: Evidence from New Malaria
Therapy in Tanzania
Achyuta Adhvaryu; Yale University
Risk Compensation, Beliefs, and Male
Circumcision: Experimental Evidence from
Kisumu, Kenya
Nicholas Wilson; Williams College
Wentao Xiong; Harvard Business School
SESSION 24: RISK, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 119
Paper Authors Discussant
Incentivizing Calculated Risk‐Taking Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School Martin Kanz; The World Bank
Leora Klapper; The World Bank
Are Individual Risk Preferences Time
Inconsistent? Temporal Construal and
Time‐dependent Changes in Risk
Preference.
Plamen Nikolov; Harvard University
How Does Risk Management Influence
Production
Decisions?
Evidence
from
a
Field Experiment
Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School
Xavier
Gine;
The
World
Bank
James Vickery; Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone
Network: Evidence from Rwanda
Joshua Blumenstock; UC Berkeley
Nathan Eagle; Santa Fe Institute
Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University
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SESSION 25: FIRMS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Success and failure of African exporters Leonardo Iacovone; World Bank
Transport Costs and Economic Geography: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways
Alexander Rothenberg; University of California, Berkeley
Can Minimum Wages Cause a Big Push?
Evidence from Indonesia
Jeremy Magruder; UC‐Berkeley
Schumpeterian Growth for Micro
Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Phone Card Wholesalers in
Mongolia
Mongoljin Batsaikhan; Brown University
SESSION 26: MIGRATION, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
Undocumented Migration with Endogenous
Coyote Prices
Aureo de Paula; University of Pennsylvania, Timothy Halliday; University of Hawaii at Manoa
Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement
and Victim
Protection:
A
Middleman’s
Perspective
Randall Akee; Tufts University
Remittances and Rashomon Devesh Kapur
Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile
Phones on Migration in Niger
Jenny Aker; Tufts University, Center for Global Development, Michael Clemens; Center for Global Development Christopher Ksoll; University of Oxford
SESSION 27: INSTITUTIONS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 114
Paper Authors Discussant
Empowering Widows through Land
Inheritance: The
Effect
on
Women's
Marriage Migration in Rural Tanzania
YUYA KUDO; Institute of Developing
Economies (IDE
‐JETRO)
Crime and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico
Ariel BenYishay; University of New
South Wales, Sarah Pearlman; Vassar College
Group Size and Cooperation: Theory and
Evidence from Nepal James Choy; Yale University
Protection through Proof of Age. Birth
Registration and Child Labor in Early 20th
Century USA.
Sonja Fagernas; University of Sussex
SESSION 28: POVERTY, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper Authors Discussant
Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking
Poverty Traps: Framework and Application
to Ethiopian Household Panel Data
Sungil Kwak; George Washington
university, Stephen Smith; George
Washington University
Can Social Benefits Reach the Poorest Families?
Michael Amior; UCL, Pedro Carneiro; UCL, Emanuela Galasso; The World
Bank, Rita Ginja; Uppsala University
Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty
and Social Instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program
Christopher Blattman; Yale University
Nathan Fiala; World Bank, Sebastian
Martinez; World Bank
Supply and Demand Constraints on
Educational Investment: Evidence from
Garment Sector Jobs and the Female
Stipend Program
in
Bangladesh
Rachel Heath; University of Washington
and the World Bank
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6:00 – 8:00 PM DINNER & POSTER SESSION
Poster Authors
The Two Sides of Envy Boris Gershman; Brown University
Mobilizing Investment Through Social Networks: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
Emily Breza; MIT, Arun Chandrasekhar; MIT, Horacio
Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) MIT
Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas: the
Returns to Collective Action by Self ‐Help Groups
Paolo Casini; KULeuven, Lore Vandewalle; FUNDP
A Foreign Affair: Fertility and Divorce Responses of Local
Women
Due
to
the
Influx
of
Foreign
Brides
Lena Edlund; Columbia University
Elaine Liu;
University
of
Houston
Jin‐Tan Liu; National Taiwan University
The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Population Control Policies
in China
Tianran Dai; Brown University
Less Guns, More Crime: Evidence from Disarmament in Uganda
Laura ralston; MIT
The Impact of Drinking Water Infrastructure on Labor Allocation and Farm Production: Evidence from the
Kyrgyz Republic
Robyn Meeks; Harvard
Are Survey Measures of Trust Correlated with
Experimental Trust? Evidence from Cameroon
Alvin Etang Ndip; Yale University
Does Attending a More Selective School Improve
Student Outcomes?
Kehinde Ajayi; Boston University
TESTING MODELS OF SOCIAL LEARNING ON
NETWORKS: EVIDENCE FROM A FRAMED FIELD
EXPERIMENT
Juan Xandri; MIT, Arun Chandrasekhar; MIT ,Horacio
Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) MIT
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Mortality
and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Rural India
S Anukriti; Columbia University
Todd Kumler; Columbia University
Local Government Capability and Public Spending
Efficacy: Evidence from a Decentralized Government Transfer Program in Indonesia
Chikako Yamauchi; Australian National University
The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence
from Indian Sanitation Policy
Yaniv Stopnitzky; Yale University
El Niño and Mexican children: Medium‐term effects
of early‐life weather shocks on cognitive and health
outcomes
Arturo Aguilar Esteva; Harvard University, Marta
Vicarelli; Yale University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011
8:00 – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
9:00 10:40 AM SECTION 5
SESSION 29: LABOR MARKETS, DISASTER & RISK, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Natural Disasters and Labor Markets Martina Kirchberger; University of Oxford
The Impact of Disaster Aid Quality: Job
Choice after a Natural Disaster
Manabu Nose; World Bank
Job Uncertainty: The implications of uncertain employment in a development setting
Susan Godlonton; University of Michigan
Children of the Revolution: Fetal and Child
Health amidst Violent Civil Conflict
Christine Valente; University of Sheffield
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SESSION 30: POLITICAL ECONOMY & DECENTRALIZATION, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 211
Paper Authors Discussant
Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine
Deaths in China
Ruixue Jia; Stockholm University
The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: Evidence
from a Field Experiment on Legislative
Transparency in
an
Authoritarian
Assembly
Edmund Malesky; UCSD
Ngoc Anh Tran; Indiana University
Tax Me, But Spend Wisely : The Political Economy of Taxes, Theory and Evidence
from Brazilian Local Governments
Lucie Gadenne; Paris School of Economics
Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi‐democracy. The case
of Ghana, 1996 ‐ 2004.
Pierre ANDRE; University of Cergy‐
Pontoise
Sandrine Mesple‐Somps; DIAL, IRD Paris
SESSION 31: HEALTH: LONG RUN INVESTMENT, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
Height, Height
Shrinkage
and
Health
at
Older Ages: Evidence from China
Wei Huang;
Peking
University
and
Harvard, Xiaoyan Lei; Peking University
Geert Ridder; University of Southern
California, John Strauss; University of Southern California, Yaohui Zhao; Peking University
Keeping the Doctor Away: Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative
Health Products
Jennifer Meredith; University of Washington, Jonathan Robinson; UC
Santa Cruz, Sarah Walker; University of Wisconsin Bruce Wydick; University of San Francisco
The Child Health Implications of Privatizing
the Urban Water Supply in Africa
Katrina Kosec; IFPRI
Long‐run Cognitive and Education Impacts
of Early
Life
Public
Health
Intervention:
Evidence from a Safe Motherhood Program
in Indonesia
Ava Gail Cas; Duke University
SESSION 32: MICROCREDIT, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 119
Paper Authors Discussant
Funding Microfinance under Asymmetric
Information
Eric Van Tassel; Florida Atlantic
University
Does flexibility in Microfinance pay off?
Evidence from a randomized evaluation in
rural India
Kristina Czura; Goete University
Frankfurt, Dean Karlan; Yale University
Sendhil Mullainathan; Harvard
University
On the Impact of Microcredit: Evidence
from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Ethiopia
jaikishan desai; Children and Youth
Unit, Human Development Network
Kristin Johnson; Duke University
Alessandro Tarozzi; Duke University
Sex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in
Microfinance?
Thorsten Beck; Tilburg University
Patrick Behr; Brazilian School of Public
and Business Administration
Andreas Madestam; Bocconi University
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SESSION 33: NATURAL RESOURCES, CHAIR:
Location: Room SSS 114
Paper Authors Discussant
The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer:
Agricultural Adaptation
to
Groundwater
and Climate
Richard Hornbeck; Harvard University
and NBER,
Pinar
Keskin;
Wellesley
College
Evolving Patterns of Firewood Collections in
Nepal: A Household Panel Analysis 1995‐
2003
jean marie baland; department of economics, Francois Libois; University
of Namur, Dilip Mookherjee; Boston
University
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence
from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program
Jennifer Alix‐Garcia; University of Wisconsin, Elizabeth Shapiro; Duke
University, Katharine Sims; Amherst College
Natural Resources and Local Communities: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine
Fernando Aragon Sanchez; Simon
Fraser University, Juan Pablo Rud; Royal Holloway, University of London
SESSION 34:
INEQUALITY,
CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 207
Paper Authors Discussant
Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence
from India
Zahra Siddique; IZA
The Conditional Gini:Estimation and
Application to the Relationship between
Wealth, Financial Use, and Income
Inequality
Christian Ahlin; Michigan State
University
Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in
Inequality
Ethan Ligon; University of California, Berkeley
It's All About MeE Lant Pritchett; Harvard Kennedy School of Government Salimah Samji
SESSION 35: HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT II, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper Authors Discussant
Why Is Africa Urbanized Despite Being
Poor? Evidence From Ghana and Ivory
Coast
Remi Jedwab; London School of Economics / PSE
Shadows of The Captain of the Men of Death: Long‐Run Impacts of Early Life
Pneumonia Exposure
Sonia Bhalotra; University of Bristol
War and Inquisition: social control in the
Spanish empire
Jordi Vidal‐Robert; Boston University
10:40 – 11:00 AM BREAK
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11:00 – 12:40 PM Yale Economic Growth Center 50th Anniversary Plenary Session Location: Room SSS 114
Location: Room SSS 114
What Have We Learned from Development Economics?
Speakers: Daron Acemoglu, Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, and Alain deJanvry
12:40 – 2:00 PM LUNCH
2:00
–
3:40
PM
SECTION
6
SESSION 36: FIRMS & CAPITAL, CHAIR:
Location: Room SSS 114
Paper Authors Discussant
Ownership Structure and Economic
Outcomes: The Case of Sugarcane Mills in
India
Sendhil Mullainathan; Harvard
University, Sandip Sukhtankar; Dartmouth College
Experimental vs. Structural Estimates of the
Return to Capital in Microenterprises
Daniel Keniston; Yale
Credit Misplaced? Testing for Household‐
level Financial Constraints to Enterprise
Activity
Russell Toth; Cornell University
SESSION 37: MIGRATION & RISK, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 207
Paper Authors Discussant
Labor Market Changes in Response to
Immigration: Evidence from Internal Migration Driven by Weather Shocks in
Indonesia
Marieke Kleemans; U.C. Berkeley
Jeremy Magruder; UC‐Berkeley
Do Natural Disasters Really Lead to Forced
Migration? Evidence from Indonesia
Chun Wing Tse; Boston University
Migration and Risk Sharing Networks Melanie Morten, Yale University
Underinvestment in Profitable
Technologies when Experimentation is
Costly: Evidence from a Migration
Experiment in Bangladesh
Gharad Bryan; LSE, Shyamal Chowdhury; University of Sydney
Ahmed Mobarak; School of Management
SESSION 38: POLITICAL ECONOMY & ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 208
Paper Authors Discussant
Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth
Robert Bates; Harvard University
Steven Block; Tufts University
Common tongue: The impact of language
on economic performance
Tarun Jain; Indian School of Business
The Economic and Spillover Effects of Organized Crime: Evidence from the
Mexican Drug War
Melissa Dell; MIT
Long‐run Effects of Villagization in Tanzania Philip Osafo‐Kwaako; Harvard
University
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SESSION 39: HEALTH: HIV/FERTILITY, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 211
Papers Authors Discussant
Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission (PMTCT) Scale‐Up in Zambia
Nicholas Wilson; Williams College
Income Shocks and HIV Erick Gong; Middlebury College
Kelly Jones; IFPRI & UC Berkeley
Marshall Burke; Berkeley or Stanford
Using panel
data
to
partially
identify
HIV
prevalence when HIV status is not missing
at random
Bruno Arpino;
Bocconi
University
Elisabetta De Cao; Bocconi University
Franco Peracchi; Tor Vergata University
Evaluating the Mexico City Policy: How
international aid affects fertility outcomes
in Ghana
Kelly Jones; IFPRI & UC Berkeley
SESSION 40: EDUCATION ‐ TRANSITIONS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 117
Paper Authors Discussant
Selective Schools and Education Decisions: Evidence from Malawi
Jacobus de Hoop; Tinbergen Institute
Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in
South Africa
Todd Pugatch; University of Michigan
Credit Constraints for Higher Education Alex Solis; University of California
Berkeley
Crossing Boundaries: Gender, Caste and
Schooling in Rural Pakistan
Hanan Jacoby; The World Bank
Ghazala Mansuri; The World Bank
SESSION 41: INSURANCE, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 119
Paper Authors Discussant
Social Networks and the Development of Insurance Market: Evidence from
Randomized Experiments
in
China
Jing Cai; UC Berkeley
Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem?
Experimental Evidence from Village
Economies
Pamela Jakiela; Washington University
in St. Louis, Owen Ozier; University of California, Berkeley
Social Networks, Financial Literacy and
Index Insurance
Xavier Gine; The World Bank
Dean Karlan; Yale University
Muthoni Ngatia; Yale University
Evaluating Seasonal Food Security
Programs in East Indonesia
Karna Basu; Hunter College, CUNY
Maisy Wong; University of Pennsylvania
SESSION 42: IMPROVING CREDIT MARKETS, CHAIR:
Location: Room WLH 116
Paper
Authors
Discussant
Promiscuous Prediction: Applying Project Finance Models in Low‐income Settings
Christopher Robert; Harvard University
The Role of Accountants in Indian Self ‐Help
Groups: The Risk of Appropriating Unequal Shares of Bank Loans.
Lore Vandewalle; FUNDP
From Loans to Labor: Microcredit, Entrepreneurship and Child Labor
Leah Nelson; University of California
San Diego
From Loans to Labor: Microcredit, Entrepreneurship and Child Labor
Unpacking the Causal Chain of Financial Literacy
Fenella Carpena; University of California, Berkeley, Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School , Jeremy
Shapiro; Yale University, Bilal Zia; World
Bank