SI 2017 Development Economics
David Atkin, Pascaline Dupas, Andrew Foster, sebastina_galiami, Duncan Thomas, and Christopher R. Udry, Organizers
July 23-25, 2017
Longfellow Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Sunday, July 23 | ||||
| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Master Lecture: “Migration and Risk” Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00pm |
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER Corina D. Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER Migration and Consumption Insurance in Bangladesh
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| 4:15pm |
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Monday, July 24 | ||||
| 7:45 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| 8:15am |
Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade
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| 9:30am |
Konrad B. Burchardi, IIES, Stockholm University Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin Benedetta Lerva, World Bank Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts
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| 10:45 am | Break | |||
| 11:15am |
Ruben Durante, National University of Singapore Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile One Team, One Nation: Football, Ethnic Identity, and Conflict in Africa
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Jeff B. Weaver, University of Southern California Jobs for Sale: Corruption and Misallocation in Hiring
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| 2:45pm |
Terence R. Johnson, University of Virginia Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia Pricing people into the Market: Mechanism Design in Development
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| 4:00 pm | Break | |||
| 4:15 pm |
Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER Donald Green, Columbia University Daniel Ortega, Instituto de Estudios Superior de Administracion Santiago Tobón, Universidad EAFIT State Building in the City: The Effects of Public Security and Services on Crime, Violence and State Legitimacy in Bogotá
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 25 | ||||
| 7:45 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| 8:45am |
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER Paul Niehaus, University of California, San Diego and NBER Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Master Lecture: “Behavioral Economics and Development” Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER |
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch and Adjourn | |||