Thursday, July 23

8:00 am

Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap

Kaivan Munshi, Yale University and NBER
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER

9:15 am

The Demand for Insurance under Limited Trust: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford
Jan Willem Gunning, VU University Amsterdam
Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University

11:00 am

The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda

Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University

1:30 pm

Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Pia M. Basurto, University of California, Santa Cruz
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER

2:45 pm

Debates: The Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives in Sierra Leone

Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER

4:30 pm

Resilience to Early Life Shocks

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Juno Insurance Group, PBC

Friday, July 24

8:00 am

Technology Adoption under Uncertainty: Take Up and Subsequent Investments in Zambia

Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Paulina Oliva, University of Southern California and NBER
Christopher Severen, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Elizabeth Walker, Harvard University
Samuel Bell, Cornell University

9:15 am

Ambiguity Aversion and Learning in a Changing World: The Potential Effects of Climate Change from Indian Agriculture

Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:00 am

Market Anomalies Under Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenya Dairy Industry

Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

1:30 pm

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia

Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Julian C. Jamison, University of Exeter
Margaret Sheridan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill