SI 2016 Development Economics
Organized by Duncan Thomas, Abhijit Banerjee, Pascaline Dupas, Mark Rosenzweig, and Daniel Xu
July 24-26, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Sunday, July 24

3:00 pm

Subsidies, Savings and Sustainable Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

Michael Carter, University of California, Davis and NBER
Rachid Laajaj, University of Los Andes
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER

4:15 pm

It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion

Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi
Jamie L. McCasland, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, July 25

8:00 am

Do Enforcement Constraints Prevent Trade? Evidence on Contracting Failures in Irrigation Markets

Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:15 am

Why do Firms Hire using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle

1:15 pm

A Theory of Experimenters

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER
Sergio Montero, University of Houston

2:30 pm

Estimating the Productivity Cost of Crony Capitalism

Cameron A. Shelton, Claremont McKenna College
Yelena Tuzova, MUFG Union Bank

4:00 pm

Breakable Commitments: Present-bias, Client Protection and Bank Ownership Forms

Karna Basu, City University of New York
Jonathan Conning, Hunter College, CUNY

10:45 pm

Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Tuesday, July 26

8:30 am

Capital Allocation across Sectors and Space: Evidence from a Boom in Agriculture

Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University
Gabriel Garber, Central Bank of Brazil