
	Friday, October 22
10:30 am	Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation Matthew Grant, Dartmouth College Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:15 am	Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Guojun He, University of Hong Kong Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
12:00 n	Break
12:30 pm	Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER Naureen Karachiwalla, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER
1:15 pm	Lightning Round of Shorter Papers
	Converging to Convergence Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Jack Willis, Columbia University and NBER Yang You, The University of Hong Kong
	Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Disclosure in a Large Microfinance Institution Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
	Learning in the Household John J. Conlon, Harvard University Malavika Mani, University of Warwick Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Matthew W. Ridley, UC Berkeley Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrew Kao, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
	In-kind Transfers as Insurance Lucie Gadenne, Queen Mary, University of London Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER
	Improving Public Sector Service Delivery: The Importance of Management Sabrin A. Beg, University of Delaware Anne E. Fitzpatrick, The Ohio State University Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware and NBER
	"Good Politicians'': Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance Saad Gulzar, Princeton University Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh
2:00 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture Jacob Moscona, Harvard University Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
3:15 pm	The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation Christoph Albert, Collegio Carlo Alberto Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
4:00 pm	Online gathering on Wonder
5:00 pm	Adjourn
	The meeting organizers invited several research teams whose papers were not included on the program to prepare short videos summarizing their findings. These papers, with associated video links, are:
	Elisa Macchi ➣ Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries (video) Daniel Chen, Sultan Mehmood ➣ Training Effective Altruism (video) Gaurav Khanna, Wenquan Liang, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Ran Song ➣ The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-induced Migration in China (video) Elliott Ash, Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Chen, Tanaya Devi, Christoph K. Goessmann, Paul Novosad, Bilal Siddiqi ➣ In-group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases (video) Natalie Bau, Martin Rotemberg, Manisha Shah, Bryce Steinberg ➣ Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor (video) Christina L. Brown, Tahir Andrabi ➣ Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools

Participants

Ama B. Abeberese, Wellesley College and NBER
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Christian Ahlin, Michigan State University
Jenny Aker, Tufts University
Richard Akresh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Siwan Anderson, University of British Columbia
Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College
Belinda Archibong, Columbia University and NBER
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Sam Asher, Imperial College Business School
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Jean-Marie Baland, Université de Namur
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Lori A. Beaman, Northwestern University and NBER
Sabrin A. Beg, University of Delaware
Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren F. Bergquist, Yale University and NBER
Susanna B. Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
James Berry, University of Georgia
Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael C. Best, Columbia University and NBER
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley
Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER
Christina L. Brown, University of Chicago
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Konrad B. Burchardi, IIES, Stockholm University
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER
Rossella Calvi, Rice University
Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER
Giacomo De Giorgi, University of Geneva
Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Erika Deserranno, Northwestern University
Taryn Dinkelman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University and NBER
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Eric V. Edmonds, Dartmouth College and NBER
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
Claudio Ferraz, University of British Columbia and NBER
Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Anne E. Fitzpatrick, The Ohio State University
Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER
Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia
Willa H. Friedman, University of Houston
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland and NBER
Rob Garlick, Duke University
Mesay Gebresilasse, Amherst College and NBER
Garance Genicot, Georgetown University and NBER
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Xavier Giné, The World Bank
Rachel Glennerster, University of Chicago and NBER
Jessica Goldberg, University of Maryland and NBER
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
Douglas Gollin, Tufts University
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of California at Berkeley
Matthew Grant, Dartmouth College
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle
Jonas Hjort, University College London
Allan Hsiao, Princeton University
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER
Clement Imbert, University of Warwick
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Anders Jensen, Harvard University and NBER
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
Anne Karing, University of Chicago
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University and NBER
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University and NBER
Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University
David Lam, University of Michigan and NBER
Etienne Le Rossignol, University of Namur
Jung Hyuk Lee, University of Southern California
Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ethan Ligon, University of California at Berkeley
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Melissa C. LoPalo, Montana State University
Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware and NBER
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics
Jeremy Magruder, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Malavika Mani, University of Warwick
Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia and NBER
Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College
David McKenzie, The World Bank
Sultan Mehmood, New Economic School
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University and NBER
Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University and NBER
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
Jacob Moscona, Harvard University
Priya Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kaivan Munshi, Yale University and NBER
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Joana Naritomi, London School of Economics
Yusuf Neggers, University of Michigan
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Yaw Nyarko, New York University and NBER
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Oyebola Okunogbe, World Bank Research Group
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Nishith Prakash, Northeastern University
Lant Pritchett, Harvard University
Marcos Rangel, Duke University
Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and NBER
Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
Krislert Samphantharak, University of California at San Diego
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
Anja Sautmann, The World Bank
Laura A. Schechter, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthias Schuendeln, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Paul Schultz, Yale University
Ritwika Sen, Northwestern University
Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bilal Siddiqi, The Life You Can Save
Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER
Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER
Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER
Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University
Alessandro Tarozzi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER
Margaret Triyana, World Bank
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda
Christopher R. Udry, Northwestern University and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER
Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
Angelino Viceisza, Spelman College and NBER
Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER
Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California
Jaya Wen, Harvard University
Jack Willis, Columbia University and NBER
Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University
Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
Jonathan de Quidt, Institute for International Economic Studies