Development Economics / BREAD Program Meeting

Nava Ashraf, Lorenzo Casaburi, Paulina Oliva, Benjamin A. Olken, Imran Rasul, and Dean Yang, Organizers

December 1, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Friday, December 1
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Michael Faye, Give Directly Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya
9:35 am	Deniz Sanin, University of South Carolina Women’s Employment, Husbands’ Economic Self-Interest and Domestic Violence
10:25 am	Break
10:55 am	Michael D. Gechter, Pennsylvania State University Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley Spatial Spillovers from High-Rise Developments: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills
11:45 am	Lightning Round 1
11:46 am	Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER Joshua Blumenstock, University of California at Berkeley Michael Callen, London School of Economics Measuring Religion from Behavior: Economic Adversity, State Control and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
11:47 am	Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University Prerna Kundu, University of British Columbia Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India
11:48 am	Pedro Ferreira, Harvard University Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University and NBER David Smerdon, University of Queensland's Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia
12:15 pm	Lunch - Room Skyline CDE
1:15 pm	Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER Junxi Liu, University of Warwick Jacob Moscona, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital and the Developing World
2:05 pm	Lightning Round 2
2:06 pm	Travis Baseler, University of Rochester Jakob Hennig, The World Bank Disastrous Displacement: The Long-Run Impacts of Landslides
2:07 pm	Kevin Carney, University of Michigan The Effect of Social Media on Voters: Experimental Evidence from an Indian Election
2:08 pm	Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University Meera Mahadevan, University of California at Irvine Women Leaders Improve Environmental Outcomes: Evidence from Crop Fires in India
2:35 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER Esau Tugume, BRAC Uganda Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER Ritwika Sen, Northwestern University Jung Hyuk Lee, University of Southern California Self-Employment Within the Firm
3:55 pm	Etienne Le Rossignol, University of Namur Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights
4:45 pm	Adjourn