Development Economics / BREAD Program Meeting
Organized by Samuel Bazzi, Robin Burgess, Jing Cai, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Benjamin A. Olken, and Tavneet Suri
October 22, 2021
on Zoom.us
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, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
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 (HKU)

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, Carnegie Mellon University
Malavika Mani, University of Warwick
Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Matthew W. Ridley, University of Warwick
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley 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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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