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 |
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Master Lecture: "Machinistas meet Randomistas: Some useful ML tools for RCT researchers" |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Erika Deserranno, Bocconi University Ricardo Morel, Innovations for Poverty Action Imran Rasul, University College London Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Yusuke Narita, Yale University Toward an Ethical Experiment
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| 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
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| 9:45 am |
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley 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 |
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER Master Lecture: "Firms in Developing Countries: Can Trade Policy Serve as Competition Policy?" |
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn and Lunch | |||