SI 2018 Development Economics

David Atkin, Pascaline Dupas, Andrew Foster, Sebastian Galiani, Costas Meghir, and Duncan Thomas, Organizers

July 22-24, 2018

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Sunday, July 22
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Master Lecture: "Machinistas meet Randomistas: Some useful ML tools for RCT researchers" (slides)
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Erika Deserranno, Northwestern University
Ricardo Morel, Innovations for Poverty Action
Imran Rasul, University College London
Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC

Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services
Discussant: Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER
4:15 pm
Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development
Wayne A. Sandholtz, Nova School of Business and Economics

Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia (slides)
Discussant: Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Monday, July 23
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Ruochen Dai, Central University of Finance and Economics
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University and NBER
Kaivan Munshi, Yale University and NBER
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China (slides)
Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Thibault Fally, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of California at Berkeley

A New Engel on the Gains from Trade
Discussant: Ethan Ligon, University of California at Berkeley
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm
Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University
Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in The Field
Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
2:15 pm
Stefano Caria, University of Warwick
Girum Abebe, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, University of Oxford

The Selection of Talent. Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia
Discussant: Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Yusuke Narita, Yale University

Toward an Ethical Experiment
Discussant: Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
5:15 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am
Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER

Spatial Structural Change
Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER
9:45 am
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogota’s TransMilenio
Discussant: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER

Master Lecture: "Firms in Developing Countries: Can Trade Policy Serve as Competition Policy?" (slides)
1:00 pm
Adjourn and Lunch