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
| Thursday, November 19 | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Dietmar Fehr, University of Heidelberg Günther Fink, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Poor and Rational: Decision-making under Scarcity |
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| 3:15 pm |
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Jin Liu, New York University Maggie Chen, The George Washington University Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress |
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| 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:15 pm | Lightning round of shorter papers | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Francis Annan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Aly Sanoh, World Bank Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information |
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Manaswini Rao, University of Delaware Judicial Capacity Increases Firm Growth Through Credit Access: Evidence from Clogged Courts of India |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing |
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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 |
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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, The George Washington University Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming |
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| 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 |
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| 2:15 pm | Lightning round of COVID-related research | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER Early Economic Impacts of COVID-19: A View from the Grid |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 5:00 pm | Reception on Gather | |
| 6:00 pm | Adjourn | |