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The 24th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference on

Experiments for Development: Achievements and New Directions

March 18-19, 2013

Organizers: Shin-ichi Fukuda, Takeo Hoshi, and Tetsushi Sonobe

Sponsors: Center for Economic Policy Research, National Bureau of Economic Research, Tokyo Center for Economic Research, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

 

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Venue: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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AREA MAP

Program

Monday, March 18

 

 

 

Chair: Takeo Hoshi, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:15 am

David McKenzie, World Bank
Francisco Campos, World Bank

Aidan Coville, World Bank

Ana Fernandes, World Bank

Markus Goldstein, World Bank

 

Learning from the Experiments that Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa

 

 

 

Discussant: Keijiro Otsuka, GRIPS

 

 

11:15 am

Tetsushi Sonobe, GRIPS

Yukichi Mano, Hitotsubashi University

 

Teaching KAIZEN to Small Business Owners: An Experiment in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi

 

 

 

Discussant: Yoshito Takasaki, University of Tsukuba

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

Chair: Tetsushi Sonobe, GRIPS

 

 

1:30 pm

Alistair Munro, GRIPS

Bereket Kebede, University of East Anglia
Marcela Tarazona-Gomez,
University of East Anglia
Arjan Verschoor,
University of East Anglia

 

Autonomy and Efficiency. An Experiment on Household Decisions in Two Regions of India

 

 

 

Discussant: Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, Asian Development Bank

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College

Jishnu Das, World Bank

Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER

 

Understanding Educational Markets: A Sentinel Approach

 

 

 

Discussant: Yukichi Mano, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

3:45 pm

Tomoya Matsumoto, GRIPS

 

Disseminating New Farming Practice among Small Scale Farmers: Experimental Intervention in Uganda

 

 

 

Discussant: Takashi Kurosaki, Hitotsubashi University

 

 

4:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner

Tofuro

4-9-8 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

 

 

Tuesday, March 19

 

 

 

Chair: Shin-ichi Fukuda, University of Tokyo

 

 

9:30 am

Russell Toth, University of Sydney

Alex Oo, University of Sydney

 

Using Framed Field Experiments to Understand Market Behavior in Developing Countries: Do Community-Sanctioned Social Pressures Constrain Microenterprise Growth?

 

 

 

Discussant: Masahiro Shoji, Seijo University

 

 

10:30 am

Hisaki Kono, Institute of Developing Economies

 

Microcredit Games with Noisy Signals: Collision or Free-Riding?

 

 

 

Discussant: Bhanupong Nidhiprabha, Thammasat University

 

 

11:30 am

Lunch and Adjourn

 

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Participants will be staying at the International House of Japan

 

Access to I-House

 

Time Table of Limousine Bus from Narita

 

Time Table of Limousine Bus to Narita