Development Economics / BREAD Program Meeting
Organized by Nava Ashraf, Lorenzo Casaburi, Paulina Oliva, Benjamin A. Olken, Imran Rasul, and Dean Yang
December 1, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 1
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am

Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Michael Faye, Give Directly
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:35 am

Women’s Employment, Husbands’ Economic Self-Interest and Domestic Violence

Deniz Sanin, University of South Carolina - Columbia
10:25 am
Break
10:55 am

Spatial Spillovers from High-Rise Developments: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills

Michael D. Gechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:45 am
Lightning Round 1
11:46 am

Measuring Religion from Behavior: Economic Adversity, State Control and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
Joshua Blumenstock, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Callen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:47 am

Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
Prerna Kundu, University of British Columbia
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego
11:48 am

Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia

Pedro Ferreira, Harvard University
Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin
Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University and NBER
David Smerdon, University of Queensland
Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC University
12:15 pm
Lunch - Room Skyline CDE
1:15 pm

Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World

Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Junxi Liu, University of Warwick
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
2:05 pm
Lightning Round 2
2:06 pm

Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides

Travis Baseler, University of Rochester
Jakob Hennig, The World Bank
2:07 pm

The Effect of Social Media on Voters: Experimental Evidence from an Indian Election

Kevin Carney, University of Michigan
2:08 pm

Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India

Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University
Meera Mahadevan, University of California, San Diego
2:35 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Self-Employment Within the Firm

Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER
Ritwika Sen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Jung Hyuk Lee, University of Southern California
3:55 pm

Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights

Etienne Le Rossignol, University of Namur
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER
4:45 pm
Adjourn