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 |
Matthew Grant, Dartmouth College Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation |
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| 11:15 am |
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Guojun He, University of Hong Kong Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER Bing Zhang, Nanjing University 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 |
Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER Naureen Karachiwalla, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER 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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Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Jack Willis, Columbia University and NBER Yang You, The University of Hong Kong Converging to Convergence |
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Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Disclosure in a Large Microfinance Institution |
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John J. Conlon, Harvard University Malavika Mani, University of Warwick Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Matthew W. Ridley, UC Berkeley Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Learning in the Household |
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Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrew Kao, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford AI-tocracy: the Symbiosis of Autocrats and Innovators |
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Lucie Gadenne, Queen Mary, University of London Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER In-kind Transfers as Insurance |
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Sabrin A. Beg, University of Delaware Anne E. Fitzpatrick, The Ohio State University Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware and NBER Improving Public Sector Service Delivery: The Importance of Management |
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Saad Gulzar, Princeton University Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh "Good Politicians'': Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance |
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm |
Jacob Moscona, Harvard University Karthik Sastry, Princeton University Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture |
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| 3:15 pm |
Christoph Albert, Collegio Carlo Alberto Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER 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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