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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Development Program Meeting

Ben Olken, Seema Jayachandran and Duncan Thomas, Organizers

October 10-11, 2014

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – 2^nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

October 10, 2104:
11:45 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER David Atkin, Yale University and NBER Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of Toronto Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico
2:15 pm	Samuel A. Bazzi, Boston University Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas Alexander D. Rothenberg Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parents' Perceptions and Children's Education: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
5:15 pm	Adnan Khan, London School of Economics Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors
6:30 pm	Adjourn - Shuttle van departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
7:15 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
October 11, 2014:
7:45 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Xin Meng, Australian National University Tommaso Porzio, Yale University Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis Using Micro Data
9:45 am	Break
10:15 am	Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Harun Alp, University of Pennsylvania Michael Peters, Yale University Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries
11:30 am	Sandip Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University and NBER Máximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers
12:45 pm	Adjourn