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Monday, July 24
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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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
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9:50 am
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Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
Gregor Singer, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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10:40 am
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Break
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11:10 am
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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
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12:00 pm
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Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
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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
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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
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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
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12:30 pm
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Lunch
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1:30 pm
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The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries
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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
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2:20 pm
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Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search
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Andrea Kiss, Carnegie Mellon University
Rob Garlick, Duke University
Kate Orkin, University of Oxford
Lukas Hensel, Peking University
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3:10 pm
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Break
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3:40 pm
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Electoral Turnovers
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Vincent Rollet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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Tuesday, July 25
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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Invited Lecture: Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER
Disasters
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:30 am
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Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation
Binta Zahra Diop, Yale University
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11:20 am
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Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India
Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
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12:10 pm
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Lunch
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1:15 pm
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Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
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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
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Information, Norms, and Female Employment: An Experiment in India
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Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College
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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
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1:45 pm
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Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda
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Anna Vitali, New York University
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2:35 pm
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Break
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3:05 pm
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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
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3:55 pm
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Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
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Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects
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Matteo Bobba, Toulouse School of Economics
Veronica Frisancho, CAF
Marco Pariguana, The University of Edinburgh
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Trade Policy, Migration Restrictions, and Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children
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Xuwen Gao, Zhejiang University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Ran Song, National University of Singapore
Wenquan Liang, Jinan University
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Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy
Sabyasachi Das, Ashoka University
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4:25 pm
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Adjourn
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