Development Program Meeting
Esther Duflo, Joseph P. Kaboski, Jeremy Magruder, Mark Rosenzweig, Duncan Thomas, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers
November 30 - December 1, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Friday, November 30 | ||
| Informal work-in-progress pre-conference | ||
| Gautam Rao and Nishith Prakash, Organizers | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am |
Dan Bjorkegren, Brown University Josh Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Manipulation Proof Machine Learning (with Application to Digital Credit Scoring in Kenya) |
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| 9:20 am |
Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College and NBER Caroline Theoharides, Amherst College The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor: Evidence from the Philippines |
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| 9:40 am |
S. Anukriti, Boston College The Costs of Reduced Reproductive Potential: Evidence from Female Sterilization in India |
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| 10:00 am |
Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER Suanna Oh, Columbia University Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Does Poverty Lower Productivity? |
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| 10:20 am | Break | |
| 10:40 am |
Sofia Amaral, Ifo Institute Girija Borker, World Bank Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University Street Police Patrols and Violence Against Women in Public Spaces: Experimental Evidence from Hyderabad, India |
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| 11:00 am |
Duong Le, Binghamton University Ha Nguyen, The World Bank Anh Pham, George Mason University Obstacles to Business Registrations: Evidence from Vietnam |
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| 11:20 am |
Kate Orkin, University of Oxford Rob Garlick, Duke University Mahreen Mahmud, University of Oxford Richard Sedlmayr, University of Oxford Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University and NBER Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford Direct and Interaction Effects of Cash Transfers and Goal-setting Interventions on Economic Outcomes |
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| 11:40 am |
Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Maria Rosales, Rutgers University Maggie Triyana, University of Notre Dame Social Interventions and Wellbeing: The Long Term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program in Indonesia |
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| Development Economics Program Meeting | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch - Charles Suites | |
| 1:00 pm |
Kevin Carney, University of Michigan Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Xinyue Lin, Harvard University Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans |
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| 2:15 pm |
Paul Carrillo, George Washington University Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER The Bigger the Better? Using Lotteries to Identify the Allocative Efficiency Effects of Firm Size |
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm |
Daniel Bjorkegren, Columbia University Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda |
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| 5:15 pm |
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications |
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| 6:30 pm | Adjourn | |
| 7:00 pm | Group Dinner - Skyline Rooms | |
| Saturday, December 1 | ||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 9:00 am |
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India |
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| 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am |
Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths |
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| 12:00 pm |
Matteo Bobba, Toulouse School of Economics Luca Flabbi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Labor Market Search, Informality, and Schooling Investments |
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| 1:15 pm | Adjourn | |