SI 2015 Productivity, Development, and Entrepreneurship

nicholas_bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Christopher Woodruff, Nicholas Bloom, and Antoinette Schoar, Organizers

July 15, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 15
9:00 am
9:00 am
Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER

Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia
9:45 am
9:45 am
Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford

More Sweatshops for Africa? A Randomized Trial of Industrial Jobs and Self-employment
11:00 am
11:00 am
Jamie L. McCasland, University of California at Berkeley
Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi

Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana
11:45 am
11:45 am
Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University and NBER

Do Credit Constraints Limit Entrepreneurship? Heterogeneity in the Returns to Microfinance
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER

Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity: Evidence from Air Pollution Exposure in an Indian Garment Factory
2:15 pm
2:15 pm
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
3:15 pm
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Alexander M. Bell, Georgia State University
Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

The Lifecycle of Inventors
3:15 pm
Alexander M. Bell, Georgia State University
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Xavier L. Jaravel, London School of Economics
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER

The Lifecycle of Inventors