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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Productivity, Development & Entrepreneurship

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Christopher Woodruff, and Nicholas Bloom, Organizers

July 15, 2015

Charles Suite
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 14
5:15 pm	Reception at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Grand Ballroom B)
Wednesday, July 15
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia Discussant: Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
9:45 am	Chris Blattman, Columbia University and NBER Stefan Dercon, Oxford University More Sweatshops for Africa? A Randomized Trial of Industrial Jobs and Self-employment Discussant: Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Jamie L. McCasland, UC Berkeley Morgan L. Hardy, Brown University Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana Discussant: Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
11:45 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Emily L. Breza, Columbia Business School Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University and NBER Do Credit Constraints Limit Entrepreneurship? Heterogeneity in the Returns to Microfinance Discussant: Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon session is joint with Innovation
1:30 pm	Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan Namrata Kala, Yale University Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity: Evidence from Air Pollution Exposure in an Indian Garment Factory Discussant: Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER
2:15 pm	Benjamin Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vincent Pons, Harvard Business School Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization Discussant: Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Alexander M. Bell Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Xavier L. Jaravel, Harvard University Neviana Petkova, U.S. Department of the Treasury John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER The Lifecycle of Inventors Discussant: Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake – Royal Sonesta Hotel