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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

NBER's Development Program Meeting

Esther Duflo, Rick Hornbeck, Rohini Pande, Duncan Thomas, Eric Verhoogen: Organizers

December 9-10, 2016

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

PROGRAM

Friday, December 9
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Adnan Khan, London School of Economics Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers
2:15 pm	Michael C. Best, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER David Szakonyi, Columbia University Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Tommaso Porzio, University of California, San Diego Cross-Country Differences in the Optimal Allocation of Talent and Technology
5:00 pm	Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University and NBER Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
6:15 pm	Adjourn Shuttles (2) depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:45 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. in Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Saturday, December 10
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and NBER Joost de Laat, Porticus Foundation Eric Lambin, Stanford University Charlotte Stanton, Carnegie Institution for Science Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
11:45 am	Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich Tristan Reed, McKinsey and Company Competition and Interlinkages in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach
1:00 pm	Adjourn