Development Economics
Organized by Natalie Bau, Dave Donaldson, Raymond Fisman, Namrata Kala, Sara Lowes, Benjamin A. Olken, and Seema Jayachandran
December 6, 2024
Serrano BC Room, Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 6
8:00am
Breakfast
8:45am

Food Policy in a Warming World

Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Allan Hsiao, Stanford University and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
9:35am

The Reallocation Effects of Domestic Outsourcing

Mayara Felix, Yale University and NBER
Michael B. Wong, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
10:25am
Break
10:55am

School Voucher Design and Strategic Pricing: Evidence from India

Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago
11:45am
Lightning Round I

The Costs of Leader Biases: Evidence from Superstitious Chinese Mayors

Justin Hong, Boston University
Yuheng Zhao, Renmin University of China

Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China

Ying Bai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Jiaojiao Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER
Anant Sudarshan, University of Warwick
12:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm

Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions

Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
Anujit Chakraborty, University of California, Davis
2:05pm
Lightning Round II

How Poverty Fell

Vincent J. Armentano, University of California, San Diego
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries

Tommaso Crosta, Bocconi University
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER
Finley Ong Julius Rüschenpöhler, Northwestern University
Christopher R. Udry, Northwestern University and NBER

Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana

Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi
Jamie L. McCasland, University of California, Berkeley
Jiayue Zhang, Brown University
2:35pm
Break
3:05pm

Residential Patterns and Local Public Goods in Urban Brazil

Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania
3:55pm

Firm Selection and Growth in Carbon Offset Markets: Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in China

Qiaoyi Chen, Fudan University
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
4:45pm
Adjourn