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NBER's Development Program Meeting/joint BREAD Conference

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, Mushfiq Mobarak and Duncan Thomas, Organizers

September 25-26, 2015

NBER
Feldstein Conference Room – 2^nd Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Friday, September 25
Informal Work-in-Progress Preconference for Junior Members (Organized by Sam Bazzi and Sandip Sukhtankar) 9:00 am – 12:00 n
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Samuel Bazzi, Boston University Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict (Joint with Matthew Gudgeon)
9:20 am	Anja Sautmann, Brown University Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children's Health Care in Mali (Joint with Samuel Brown and Mark Dean)
9:40 am	Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Economic Development
10:00 am	Break
10:10 am	Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India (Joint with Paul Niehaus and Karthik Muralidharan)
10:30 am	Michael Callen, Harvard University Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan (Joint with James Andreoni, Karrar Jaffar, Muhammad Yasir Khan and Charles Sprenger)
10:50 am	Leonardo Burzstyn, University of California at Los Angeles Moral Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card
11:10 am	Break
11:20 am	Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization (Joint with Rodrigo R. Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea)
11:40 am	Owen Ozier, The World Bank Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming
BREAD/NBER Fall Conference
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Jing Cai, University of Michigan Adam Szeidl, Central European University Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
2:15 pm	Francesco Amodio, McGill University Miguel Angel Martinez-Carrasco, Universidad de Piura Input Allocation, Workforce Management and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Personnel Data
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago Shuang Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China
5:15 pm	Emily L. Breza, Columbia University Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Stanford University Social Networks, Reputation, and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment
6:30 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Shuttles (2) depart 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)
Saturday, September 26
8:15 am	Shuttles (2) depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Duke University Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University Shuang Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder The One Child Policy and Promotion of Mayors in China
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Joram Mayshar, Hebrew University Omer Moav, University of Warwick Zvika Neeman, Tel Aviv University Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy
11:45 am	Christian Dippel, University of California at Los Angeles Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto Avner Greif, Stanford University The Rents From Trade and Coercive Institutions: Removing the Sugar Coating
1:00 pm	Adjourn