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BREAD/Development Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Jenny Aker, Pascaline Dupas, Garance Genicot, Edward Miguel, Benjamin A. Olken, Frank Schilbach, and Enrique Seira
December 5, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.,Cambridge, MA
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Thursday, December 4
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6:30PM
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Dinner, location to be announced
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Friday, December 5
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8:00AM
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Breakfast
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8:45AM
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The Effects of Mandated Maternity Leave on Labor Market Outcomes in India
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore
Stephanie Hao Lisa Y. Ho, Columbia University
Garima Sharma, Northwestern University
Shreya Tandon, Harvard University
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9:35AM
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Household Preferences for Female Employment: A Field Experiment in Bangladesh
Yueh-ya Hsu, University of Chicago
Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER
Erin M. Kelley, University of Chicago and NBER
Gregory Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
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10:25AM
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Break
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10:55AM
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Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution
Ariel Akerman, Inter-American Development Bank
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER
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11:45AM
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Lightning Round I
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Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Benefit Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital Accumulation
Axel Eizmendi Larrinaga, Tufts University
German J. Reyes, Middlebury College
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Economic Opportunity Costs: Banking Access and Educational (Dis)Investment
Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Yuqi Chang, National University of Singapore
Pulak Ghosh, India Institute of Management Bangalore
Arkodipta Sarkar, National University of Singapore
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What Would it Cost to End Extreme Poverty?
Roshni Sahoo Joshua Blumenstock, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Leo Selker Stefan Wager, Stanford University
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12:15PM
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Lunch
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1:15PM
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The Effect of Exposure: Evidence from Spatial Choices in Nairobi
Joshua T. Dean, University of Chicago
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
Oluchi U. Mbonu, Harvard University
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2:05PM
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Lightning Round II
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Habit Formation in Labor Supply
Luisa Cefala, Cornell University
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Heather Schofield, Cornell University
Yogita Shamdasani, National University of Singapore
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Hidden Discrimination in Frictional Labor Markets
Elisa Macchi, Brown University
Claude Raisaro, Geneva Graduate Institute
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High Returns, Low Adoption: Air Purifiers in Bangladeshi Firms
Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego
Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University
Nancy Lozano Gracia, The World Bank
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2:35PM
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Break
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3:05PM
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Carbon Leakage to Developing Countries
Marcel Olbert, London Business School
Diego R. Känzig, Northwestern University and NBER
Julian Marenz, London Business School
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3:55PM
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The Incidence of Distortions
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Baptiste Bernadac, University of California, Los Angeles
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tishara Garg, Princeton University
Federico Huneeus, Duke University
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4:45PM
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Adjourn
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