Development Economics

Natalie Bau, Dave Donaldson, Raymond Fisman, Namrata Kala, Sara Lowes, Benjamin A. Olken, and Seema Jayachandran, Organizers

December 6, 2024

Serrano BC Room, Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 5
6:30pm	Dinner, Serrano AB, Hotel Marlowe
Friday, December 6
8:00am	Breakfast
8:45am	Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Allan Hsiao, Stanford University Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER Food Policy in a Warming World
9:35am	Mayara Felix, Yale University and NBER Michael B. Wong, University of Hong Kong The Reallocation Effects of Domestic Outsourcing
10:25am	Break
10:55am	Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago School Voucher Design and Strategic Pricing: Evidence from India
11:45am	Lightning Round I
	Justin Hong, Boston University Yuheng Zhao, Renmin University of China The Costs of Leader Biases: Evidence from Superstitious Chinese Mayors
	Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER Jiaojiao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China
	Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER Anant Sudarshan, University of Warwick The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India
12:15pm	Lunch
1:15pm	Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University Anujit Chakraborty, University of California, Davis Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions
2:05pm	Lightning Round II
	Vincent J. Armentano, University of California, San Diego Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER How Poverty Fell
	Tommaso Crosta, Bocconi University Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER Finley Ong Julius Rüschenpöhler, Northwestern University Christopher R. Udry, Northwestern University and NBER Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
	Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi Jamie L. McCasland, University of California at Berkeley Jiayue Zhang, Brown University Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana
2:35pm	Break
3:05pm	Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania Residential Patterns and Local Public Goods in Urban Brazil
3:55pm	Qiaoyi Chen, Fudan University Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Firm Selection and Growth in Carbon Offset Markets: Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in China
4:45pm	Adjourn