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

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