NBER Development Economics/joint BREAD Conference

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Melissa Dell, Seema Jayachandran, Edward Miguel, Benjamin A. Olken, and Dean Yang, Organizers

November 22-23, 2019

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 22
	Informal work-in-progress pre-conference for junior affiliates Lorenzo Casaburi and Namrata Kala, Organizers
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Welcome
9:35 am	Achyuta Adhvaryu,University of Michigan and NBER JF Gauthier, Boston College Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER Jorge Tamayo, Harvard University Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
10:00 am	Gabriella Conti, University College London Cynthi Kinnan, Tufts University and NBER Kosuke Imai, Harvard University Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago and NBER The Value of Health Insurance: A Field Experiment In India
10:25 am	Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER Panle Barwick, Cornell University and NBER Shengmao Cao, Stanford University, Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Does Quid Pro Quo Promote Knowledge Transfer? Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry
10:50 am	Break
11:10 am	Travis Baseler, University of Rochester Thomas Ginn, Center for Global Development Helidah Ogude, The World Bank Olivia Woldemikael, Harvard University Microenterprise Support to Integrate Refugees in Uganda
11:35 am	Christina Brown, University of California at Berkeley Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Heather Schofield, University of Pennsylvania Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
12:00 n	Adjourn and Lunch Lunch will be held in the Charles Suites
	Development Economics/BREAD Fall Program Meeting
1:00 pm	Dennis Egger, Univeristy of Oxford Johannes Haushofer, Stockholm University and NBER Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley General Equilibrium Welfare Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
2:00 pm	Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Yogita Shamdasani, National University of Singapore Labor Rationing: A Revealed Preference Approach From Hiring Shocks
2:30 pm	Matti Mitrunen, University of Helsinki Structural Change and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the Finnish War Reparations
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER Martin Rotemberg, New York University Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
4:30 pm	Break
4:45 pm	Siddharth E. George, National University of Singapore Like Father, Like Son? The Effect of Political Dynasties on Economic Development
5:45 pm	Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER Niccoló Meriggi, International Growth Centre Abou Bakarr Kamara, International Growth Centre An Experiment in Candidate Selection
6:15 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Reception and Dinner - Skyline Rooms
Saturday, November 23
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Stanford University and NBER Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Matthew Jackson, Stanford University Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
9:45 am	Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER Raffaela Muoio, BRAC Uganda Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Ritwika Sen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda Achieving Scale Collectively
10:45 am	Break
11:15 am	Clare Leaver, University of Oxford Owen Ozier, Williams College Pieter M. Serneels, University of East Anglia Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
12:15 pm	Break
12:30 pm	Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) Andreas Stegmann, University of Warwick In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA's Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan
1:00 pm	Adam Aberrra, McGill University Matthieu Chemin, McGill University Does Legal Representation Increase Investment? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
1:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 7
12:00 pm	Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER Martin Rotemberg, New York University Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing (slides)