Sunday, July 23
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Master Lecture: “Migration and Risk”
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00pm

Migration and Consumption Insurance in Bangladesh

Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Corina D. Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER
4:15pm

The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java

Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Monday, July 24
7:45 am
Coffee and pastries
8:15am

The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade

Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER

Discussant:
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:30am

Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts

Konrad B. Burchardi, IIES, Stockholm University
Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin
Benedetta Lerva, The World Bank
Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC

Discussant:
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:15am

One Team, One Nation: Football, Ethnic Identity, and Conflict in Africa

Ruben Durante, National University of Singapore
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Discussant:
Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring

Jeff B. Weaver, University of Southern California

Discussant:
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:45pm

Pricing people into the Market: Mechanism Design in Development

Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia
Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia

Discussant:
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:15 pm

State Building in the City: The Effects of Public Security and Services on Crime, Violence and State Legitimacy in Bogotá

Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Donald Green, Columbia University
Daniel Ortega, Instituto de Estudios Superior de Administracion
Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT

Discussant:
Claudio Ferraz, University of British Columbia and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
7:45 am
Coffee and pastries
8:45am

General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER

Discussant:
Clement Imbert, University of Warwick
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Master Lecture: “Behavioral Economics and Development”
Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 noon
Lunch and Adjourn