Monday, July 20

9:30 am

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Non-cognitive 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

10:15 am

The Eect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War

Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University
Andrew C. Shaver, University of California, Merced

11:15 am

Expanding Governance as Development: Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines

Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Mitch M. Downey, Stockholm IIES
Joseph Felter, Stanford University

1:00 pm

Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide

Thorsten Rogall, Uppsala University

1:45 pm

The Value of Precision in Geopolitical Forecasting: Empirical Foundations for Intelligence Analysts and Foreign Policy Decision Making

Jeffrey Friedman, Dartmouth College
Joshua Baker, University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Mellers, University of Pennsylvania
Philip Tetlock, University of Pennsylvania
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER

2:45 pm

The Intergenerational Transmission of War

Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich

3:30 pm

Mining Royalties and Incentives for Law and Order: Evidence from India's Red Corridor

Oliver Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics