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	Poor and Rational: Decision-making under Scarcity
3:15 pm	Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
4:00 pm	Break
4:15 pm	Lightning round of shorter papers
	Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
	Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo
	Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information
	Judicial Capacity Increases Firm Growth Through Credit Access: Evidence from Clogged Courts of India
	Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
	Credit and Attention in the Adoption of Profitable Energy Efficient Technologies in Kenya
	Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
	Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from Catholic Saint-Day Festivals in Mexico
	Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
5:00 pm	Reception on Gather
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, November 20
1:30 pm	Mechanizing Agriculture: Impacts on Labor and Productivity
2:15 pm	Lightning round of COVID-related research
	School’s Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low-Tech” in a Pandemic
	Helping Families Help Themselves: Effects of a SMS Parental and Stress Management Intervention
	Early Economic Impacts of COVID-19: A View from the Grid
	Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: A Randomized Experiment in Kenya
	Did Pensions Protect the Elderly from the Impacts of COVID?
	Drinking from the Firehose: Preprints, Chinese Scientists, and the Diffusion of Research on COVID-19 (slides)
	Nudging or Paying? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Measures to Contain COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh in a Randomized Controlled Trial
	Targeting COVID-19 Aid with Mobile Phone Data and Machine Learning (slides)
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Local Advantage: Corruption, Organized Crime, and Indigenization in the Nigerian Oil Sector
4:15 pm	Technology (Ab)use and Corruption in Customs
5:00 pm	Reception on Gather
6:00 pm	Adjourn