Wednesday, July 26
9:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:50 am
Convene and Introductions
10:00 am

Pricing Conflict Risk: Evidence from Sovereign Bonds (slides)

Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University
Ethan B. Kapstein, Princeton University
Andres Rivera, Universidad Javeriana-Cali
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Sanctions and Misallocation. How Sanctioned Firms Won and Russia Lost (slides)

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, HEC Lausanne and LSE
11:45 am

Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan

Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley
Michael Callen, London School of Economics
Anastasiia Faikina, Convoy Inc
Stefano Fiorin, Bocconi University
Tarek F. Ghani, Washington University in St. Louis
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Religious Safety Nets and their Effects on Human Capital Accumulation

Naomi Gershoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Rania Gihleb, University of Pittsburgh
Assaf Y. Kott, Brown University
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver
Yannay Shanan, Bar Ilan University
2:15 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Education and Wartime Mobilization: Evidence from Colonial Korea during WWII

Sangyoon Park, University of Hong Kong
Yutaro Izumi, GRIPS
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Civilian alternatives to policing: Evidence from Medellín’s community problem-solving intervention Operación Convivencia (slides)

Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Gustavo Duncan, Universidad EAFIT
Benjamin Lessing, University of Chicago
Santiago Tobon, Universidad EAFIT
4:15 pm

Winning "Hearts and Minds'' in Moments of Crisis? Evidence from a Counter-insurgency Field Experiment in the Philippines Before, During and After Covid-19

Dotan Haim, Florida State University
Nico Ravanilla, University of California San Diego
Renard Sexton, Emory University
5:00 pm
Adjourn