Tuesday, July 18
5:15 pm
Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Reception
Grand Ballroom Foyer/ West Tower
Wednesday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:00 am

Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya

Wyatt Brooks, Arizona State University
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia

Discussant:
Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER
9:45 am

Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations: Evidence from Ethiopia

Margaret S. McMillan, Tufts University and NBER
Michel Serafinelli, University of Essex
Girum Abebe, Dr, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Discussant:
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Exporting Sweatshops? Evidence from Myanmar

Mari Tanaka, University of Tokyo

Discussant:
Gregory M. Distelhorst, University of Toronto
11:45 am

The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions

Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER

Discussant:
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Afternoon joint with Innovation in Ballroom B
1:30 pm

E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China

Victor Couture, University of Toronto
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Yizhen Gu, Peking University
Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University

Discussant:
Jonas Hjort, University College London
2:15 pm

The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER
Tom Nicholas, Harvard University

Discussant:
Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

Bryan T. Kelly, Yale University and NBER
Dimitris Papanikolaou, Northwestern University and NBER
Amit Seru, Stanford University and NBER
Matt Taddy, Amazon

Discussant:
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn