SI 2016 Development Economics

Duncan Thomas, Abhijit Banerjee, Pascaline Dupas, Mark Rosenzweig, and Daniel Xu, Organizers

July 24-26, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Summer Institute 2016 master schedule

Sunday, July 24
3:00 pm	Michael Carter, University of California, Davis and NBER Rachid Laajaj, University of Los Andes Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER Subsidies, Savings and Sustainable Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
4:15 pm	Morgan L. Hardy, New York University Abu Dhabi Jamie L. McCasland, University of California at Berkeley It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion
Monday, July 25
8:00 am	Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Do Enforcement Constraints Prevent Trade? Evidence on Contracting Failures in Irrigation Markets
9:15 am	Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle Why do Firms Hire using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories
1:15 pm	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University and NBER Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER Sergio Montero, University of Rochester A Theory of Experimenters
2:30 pm	Cameron A. Shelton, Claremont McKenna College Yelena Tuzova, MUFG Union Bank Estimating the Productivity Cost of Crony Capitalism
4:00 pm	Karna Basu, City University of New York Jonathan Conning, Hunter College, CUNY Breakable Commitments: Present-bias, Client Protection and Bank Ownership Forms
10:45 pm	Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Tuesday, July 26
8:30 am	Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University Gabriel Garber, Central Bank of Brazil Capital Allocation across Sectors and Space: Evidence from a Boom in Agriculture