SI 2024 Development Economics
Organized by Shawn Cole, Oeindrila Dube, Andrew Foster, Seema Jayachandran, Supreet Kaur, Kaivan Munshi, and Daniel Xu
July 22-23, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Monday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Long-Range Forecasts as Climate Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Developing-Country Agriculture

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER
Erin M. Kelley, University of Chicago and NBER
Gregory Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago
9:50 am

Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER
Ariel D. Zucker, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in Ethiopia

Daniel Agness, University of Maryland, College Park
Tigabu Getahun, Policy Studies Institute, Ethiopia
12:00 noon
Lightning Round 1 - 9 minutes each
12:00 pm

Under-training by Employers in Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Burundi

Luisa Cefala, Cornell University
Pedro Naso, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Michel A. Ndayikeza, University of Clermont Auvergne
Nicholas G. Swanson, Stanford University
12:10 pm

Labor Market Consequences of Public Sector Salary Surge

Md Amzad Hossain, University of Arkansas
Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas and NBER
12:20 pm

When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty

Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Norm Replacement and Information. An Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting

Lucia Corno, Cattolica University
Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University and NBER
2:20 pm

Slack and Economic Development

Dennis Egger, University of Oxford
Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felix Samy Soliman, University of Zurich
Nachiket Shah, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm

Paternalistic Discrimination

Nina Buchmann, Yale University
Carl Meyer, Stanford University
Colin Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 23
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Invited Lecture
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Institutional Design and Emissions Reduction in Low State Capacity Settings
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am

Seeing like a Citizen: Experimental Evidence on How Empowerment Affects Engagement with the State

Soeren J. Henn, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Laura Paler, American University
Wilson Prichard, University of Toronto
Cyrus Samii, New York University
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER
11:20 am

Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa

Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Camille Falezan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marie Christelle Mabeu, Toronto Metropolitan University
Pauline Rossi, CREST - Ecole Polytechnique
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Lightning Round 2 - 9 minutes each
1:15 pm

Rainfall and Death in a Developing Megacity

Tom Bearpark, Princeton University
Archana Patankar, Green Globe Consulting
Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago
1:25 pm

National Road Upgrading and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ugandan Households

Ian Herzog, Huron University College
Siyuan Liu, University of Toronto
Yue Yu, University of Toronto
1:35 pm

Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance (slides)

Muhammad Meki, University of Oxford
1:45 pm

To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks

Yulu Tang, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2:35 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Optimal Policy in the Presence of Social Image Concerns

Anne Karing, University of Chicago
Edward Jee, University of Chicago
Karim Naguib, AstraZeneca
3:55 pm
Lightning Round 3 - 9 minutes each
3:55 pm

The Illusion of Time: Female Job Search and Employment

Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Amen Jalal, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
4:05 pm

Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India

Duncan Webb, Princeton University
4:15 pm

Bringing Work Home: Flexible Work Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal

Lisa Y. Ho, Columbia University
Suhani Jalota, Stanford University
Anahita Karandikar, University of British Columbia
4:25 pm
Adjourn