Development Economics / BREAD Program Meeting
Samuel Bazzi, Robin Burgess, Jing Cai, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Benjamin A. Olken, and Tavneet Suri, Organizers
October 22, 2021
on Zoom.us
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| 10:30 am |
Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation |
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| 11:15 am |
Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China |
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| 12:00 n | Break | |
| 12:30 pm |
Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education |
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| 1:15 pm | Lightning Round of Shorter Papers | |
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Converging to Convergence |
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Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Disclosure in a Large Microfinance Institution |
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Learning in the Household |
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AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators |
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In-kind Transfers as Insurance |
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Improving Public Sector Service Delivery: The Importance of Management |
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"Good Politicians'': Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance |
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm |
Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture |
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| 3:15 pm |
The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation |
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| 4:00 pm | Online gathering on Wonder | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| The meeting organizers invited several research teams whose papers were not included on the program to prepare short videos summarizing their findings. These papers, with associated video links, are: | ||
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Elisa Macchi ➣ Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries (video) Daniel Chen, Sultan Mehmood ➣ Training Effective Altruism (video) Gaurav Khanna, Wenquan Liang, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Ran Song ➣ The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-induced Migration in China (video) Elliott Ash, Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Chen, Tanaya Devi, Christoph K. Goessmann, Paul Novosad, Bilal Siddiqi ➣ In-group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases (video) Natalie Bau, Martin Rotemberg, Manisha Shah, Bryce Steinberg ➣ Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor (video) Christina L. Brown, Tahir Andrabi ➣ Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools |
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