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Wednesday, July 22
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6:00
pm
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Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel
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Thursday, July 23
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7:30 am
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Coffee and pastries
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8:00 am
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Kaivan Munshi, University
of Cambridge
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER
Networks
and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
Discussant: Ethan Ligon, University of California
at Berkeley
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9:15 am
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Stefan Dercon, Oxford University
Jan Willem Gunning, VU University Amsterdam
Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University
The
Demand for Insurance under Limited Trust: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Kenya
Discussant: Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University
and NBER
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10:30 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown University
The
Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in
Rwanda
Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, University of Warwick and NBER
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Pia M. Basurto, University of California at Santa
Cruz
Pascaline Dupas, Stanford
University and NBER
Jonathan Robinson, University of California at Santa Cruz and NBER
Decentralization
and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Discussant: Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and NBER
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2:45 pm
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Katherine Casey, Stanford University
Rachel Glennerster, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Kelly Bidwell, Abdul Latif
Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Debates: The
Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives in Sierra Leone
Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
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4:00 pm
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Break
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4:30 pm
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Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson,
University of Maryland
Achyuta Adhvaryu,
University of Michigan
Parul Christian, Johns Hopkins University
Alain Labrique, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Sugimoto, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Abu A. Shamim, Jivita
Bangladesh
Keith P. West, Jr, Johns Hopkins University
Resilience to Early Life Shocks
Discussant: Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER
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5:45 pm
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Adjourn
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Friday, July 24
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7:30 am
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Coffee and pastries
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8:00 am
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Kelsey Jack, Tufts University and NBER
Paulina Oliva, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
Christopher Severen, University of California at
Santa Barbara
Elizabeth Walker, Harvard University
Samuel Bell, Cornell University
Technology
Adoption under Uncertainty: Take Up and Subsequent Investments in Zambia
Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER
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9:15 am
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Namrata Kala, Yale University
Ambiguity
Aversion and Learning in a Changing World: The Potential Effects of Climate
Change from Indian Agriculture
Discussant: Gharad T. Bryan, London School of
Economics
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10:30 am
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Breal
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11:00 am
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Lorenzo Casaburi, Stanford University
Rocco Macchiavello, University of Warwick
Market
Anomalies under Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenya Dairy Industry
Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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Chris Blattman, Columbia University and NBER
Julian C. Jamison, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Margaret Sheridan, Harvard University
Reducing
Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive
Investments in Liberia
Discussant: Anandi Mani, University of Warwick
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2:45 pm
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Discussion of DEV program and program activities
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3:30 pm
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Adjourn
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