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
| Sunday, July 22 | ||||
| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Master Lecture: "Machinistas meet Randomistas: Some useful ML tools for RCT researchers" |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services
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| 4:15 pm |
Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Monday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China
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| 10:15 am | Break | |||
| 10:45 am |
A New Engel on the Gains from Trade
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in The Field
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| 2:15 pm |
The Selection of Talent. Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Toward an Ethical Experiment
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 24 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Spatial Structural Change
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| 9:45 am |
The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogota’s TransMilenio
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Master Lecture: "Firms in Developing Countries: Can Trade Policy Serve as Competition Policy?" |
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn and Lunch | |||