Development Economics Program Meeting

Katherine Casey, Thomas Fujiwara, Karthik Muralidharan, Benjamin A. Olken, Christopher R. Udry, Eric Verhoogen, and Maisy Wong, Organizers

November 19-20, 2020

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, November 19
2:30 pm
Dietmar Fehr, University of Heidelberg
Günther Fink, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Kelsey Jack, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Poor and Rational: Decision-making under Scarcity
3:15 pm
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Jin Liu, New York University
Maggie Chen, George Washington University

Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
4:00 pm
Break
4:15 pm
Lightning round of shorter papers
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University and NBER
Gabriel Z. Tourek, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Jonathan L. Weigel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Pablo Balan, Harvard University

Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo
Francis Annan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Aly Sanoh, World Bank

Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information
Manaswini Rao, University of Delaware

Judicial Capacity Increases Firm Growth Through Credit Access: Evidence from Clogged Courts of India
Daniel J. Agness, University of California at Berkeley
Travis Baseler, University of Rochester
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER

Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Susanna B. Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Josh T. Dean, University of Chicago

Credit and Attention in the Adoption of Profitable Energy Efficient Technologies in Kenya
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from Catholic Saint-Day Festivals in Mexico
Joan Hamory Hicks, University of Oklahoma
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Sarah J. Baird, George Washington University

Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
5:00 pm
Reception on Gather
6:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, November 20
1:30 pm
Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Mechanizing Agriculture: Impacts on Labor and Productivity
2:15 pm
Lightning round of COVID-related research
Noam Angrist, University of Oxford
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Moitshepi Matsheng, Youth Impact

School’s Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low-Tech” in a Pandemic
Lelys Ilean. Dinarte, The World Bank
Sofia Amaral, The World Bank
Santiago M. Perez, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Patricio Domínguez Rivera, University of California at Berkeley

Helping Families Help Themselves: Effects of a SMS Parental and Stress Management Intervention
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER

Early Economic Impacts of COVID-19: A View from the Grid
Wyatt Brooks, Arizona State University
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER
Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia
Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, Strathmore University and University of Notre Dame

Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: A Randomized Experiment in Kenya
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College
Garima Sharma, Northwestern University
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Girija Vaidyanathan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Erin Grela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Did Pensions Protect the Elderly from the Impacts of COVID?
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Caroline Fry, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Drinking from the Firehose: Preprints, Chinese Scientists, and the Diffusion of Research on COVID-19 (slides)
Shyamal Chowdhury, University of Sydney
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Sebastian O. Schneider, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Matthias Sutter, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Emily Aiken, University of California at Berkeley
Suzanne Bellue, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, CREST and ENSAE
Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER
Christopher R. Udry, Northwestern University and NBER

Targeting COVID-19 Aid with Mobile Phone Data and Machine Learning (slides)
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University

The Local Advantage: Corruption, Organized Crime, and Indigenization in the Nigerian Oil Sector
4:15 pm
Cyril Chalendard, International Trade Centre (UN-WTO agency)
Ana M. Fernandes, The World Bank
Bob Rijkers, The World Bank
Gael Raballand

Technology (Ab)use and Corruption in Customs
5:00 pm
Reception on Gather
6:00 pm
Adjourn