Development Program Meeting
Organized by Duncan Thomas
December 9-10, 2016
NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA

Friday, December 9

1:00 pm

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers

Adnan Khan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

2:15 pm

Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design

Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER
Jonas Hjort, University College London
David Szakonyi, The George Washington University

4:00 pm

Cross-Country Differences in the Optimal Allocation of Talent and Technology

Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER

5:15 pm

Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis

Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER
Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University and NBER

Saturday, December 10

9:00 am

Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Joost de Laat, Wageningen University & Research
Eric Lambin, Stanford University
Charlotte Stanton, Carnegie Institution for Science

10:30 am

Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER

11:45 am

Competition in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich
Tristan Reed, The World Bank