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

Friday, December 6
8:00am
Breakfast
8:45am

Food Policy in a Warming World
9:35am

The Reallocation Effects of Domestic Outsourcing
10:25am
Break
10:55am

School Voucher Design and Strategic Pricing: Evidence from India
11:45am
Lightning Round I

The Costs of Leader Biases: Evidence from Superstitious Chinese Mayors

Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India
12:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm

Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions
2:05pm
Lightning Round II

How Poverty Fell

Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries

Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana
2:35pm
Break
3:05pm

Residential Patterns and Local Public Goods in Urban Brazil
3:55pm

Firm Selection and Growth in Carbon Offset Markets: Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in China
4:45pm
Adjourn