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Friday, November 30 | |
Informal work-in-progress pre-conference
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Gautam Rao and Nishith Prakash, Organizers
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Dan Bjorkegren, Brown University
Josh Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Manipulation Proof Machine Learning (with Application to Digital Credit Scoring in Kenya) |
9:20 am |
Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College and NBER
Caroline Theoharides, Amherst College The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor: Evidence from the Philippines |
9:40 am |
S. Anukriti, Boston College
The Costs of Reduced Reproductive Potential: Evidence from Female Sterilization in India |
10:00 am |
Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER Suanna Oh, Columbia University Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Does Poverty Lower Productivity? |
10:20 am |
Break
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10:40 am |
Sofia Amaral, Ifo Institute
Girija Borker, World Bank Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University Street Police Patrols and Violence Against Women in Public Spaces: Experimental Evidence from Hyderabad, India |
11:00 am |
Duong Le, Binghamton University
Ha Nguyen, The World Bank Anh Pham, George Mason University Obstacles to Business Registrations: Evidence from Vietnam |
11:20 am |
Kate Orkin, University of Oxford
Rob Garlick, Duke University Mahreen Mahmud, University of Oxford Richard Sedlmayr, University of Oxford Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University and NBER Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford Direct and Interaction Effects of Cash Transfers and Goal-setting Interventions on Economic Outcomes |
11:40 am |
Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Maria Rosales, Rutgers University Maggie Triyana, University of Notre Dame Social Interventions and Wellbeing: The Long Term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program in Indonesia |
Development Economics Program Meeting
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12:00 pm |
Lunch - Charles Suites
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1:00 pm |
The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans |
2:15 pm |
The Bigger the Better? Using Lotteries to Identify the Allocative Efficiency Effects of Firm Size |
3:30 pm |
Break
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4:00 pm |
Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda |
5:15 pm |
The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
6:30 pm |
Adjourn
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7:00 pm |
Group Dinner - Skyline Rooms
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Saturday, December 1 | |
8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India |
10:15 am |
Break
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10:45 am |
Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths |
12:00 pm |
Labor Market Search, Informality, and Schooling Investments |
1:15 pm |
Adjourn
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