SI 2016 Development Economics
Duncan Thomas, Abhijit Banerjee, Pascaline Dupas, Mark Rosenzweig, and Daniel Xu, Organizers
July 24-26, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 9:15 am |
Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle Why do Firms Hire using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories |
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| 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 |
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| 2:30 pm |
Cameron A. Shelton, Claremont McKenna College Yelena Tuzova, MUFG Union Bank Estimating the Productivity Cost of Crony Capitalism |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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