SI 2023 Development Economics
Organized by Orazio Attanasio, Emily Breza, Claudio Ferraz, Rachel Glennerster, Seema Jayachandran, Jeremy Magruder, Anant Nyshadham, and Leonard Wantchekon
July 24-25, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets

Lauren F. Bergquist, Yale University and NBER
Craig McIntosh, University of California, San Diego
Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:50 am

Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?

Gregor Singer, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas and NBER
Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey

Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley
Alice H. Huang, University of California, Berkeley
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Making Entrepreneurs: The Return to Training Youth in Hard versus Soft Business Skills

Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley
David Contreras-Loya, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Dana Carney, University of California, Berkeley

Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale

Johannes Bos, American Institute for Research
Abu S. Shonchoy, Florida International University
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Akib Khan, Stockholm School of Economics
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries (slides)

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Abhijit Chowdhury, John C. Martin Centre for Liver Research and Innovations
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER
Jeffrey Hammer, National Council of Applied Economic Research
Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER
Aakash Mohpal, The World Bank
2:20 pm

Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search (slides)

Andrea Kiss, Carnegie Mellon University
Rob Garlick, Duke University
Kate Orkin, University of Oxford
Lukas Hensel, Peking University
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm

Electoral Turnovers

Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Vincent Rollet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Invited Lecture: Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER
Disasters
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am

Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation

Binta Zahra Diop, Yale University
11:20 am

Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India

Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?

Kate Orkin, University of Oxford
Rob Garlick, Duke University
Mahreen Mahmud, University of Exeter
Richard Sedlmayr, The Agency Fund
Johannes Haushofer, Cornell University and NBER
Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford

Information, Norms, and Female Employment: An Experiment in India (slides)

Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College

Do Microenterprises Maximize Profits? A Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Greg Fischer, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
1:45 pm

Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda (slides)

Anna Vitali, New York University
2:35 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Carlos Medina, Banco de la Republica de Colombia
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
Daniel Ramos, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University and NBER
Audrey Tiew, New York University
3:55 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects (slides)

Matteo Bobba, Toulouse School of Economics
Veronica Frisancho, CAF
Marco Pariguana, The University of Edinburgh

Trade Policy, Migration Restrictions, and Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children (slides)

Xuwen Gao, Zhejiang University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Ran Song, National University of Singapore
Wenquan Liang, Jinan University

Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy

Sabyasachi Das, Ashoka University
4:25 pm
Adjourn