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

Master Lecture: "Machinistas meet Randomistas: Some useful ML tools for RCT researchers" (slides)
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services
Discussant: Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER
4:15 pm

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

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

A New Engel on the Gains from Trade
Discussant: Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 pm

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in The Field
Discussant: Christopher Woodruff, University of Oxford
2:15 pm

The Selection of Talent. Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia
Discussant: Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

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

Spatial Structural Change
Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER
9:45 am

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

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