SI 2019 Development Economics
Robin Burgess, Taryn Dinkelman, Seema Jayachandran, Dean Karlan, Benjamin A. Olken, Manisha Shah, and Daniel Xu, Organizers
July 21-23, 2019
Parkview Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Sunday, July 21 | ||||
| 12:00 n | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER Master Lecture: Weight Gains: Measuring Inequality in Panel Data and Other Adventures in Sampling |
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| 2:15 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Sean Higgins, Northwestern University Financial Technology Adoption
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| 4:00 pm |
Clement Imbert, University of Warwick Marlon Seror, UQAM Yifan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn, followed by Methods Lecture, Charles Suite | |||
| Monday, July 22 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Jonas Hjort, University College London Diana B. Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Juan Franc. Santini, Innovations for Poverty Action Do Research Findings Influence Policy? Experimental Evidence from 2,145 Brazilian Municipalities
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| 10:15 am | Break | |||
| 10:45 am |
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER Kristof Titeca, Antwep University Hierarchical Corruption
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| 12:00 n | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Lucie Gadenne, Queen Mary, University of London Roland Rathelot, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and CREST Tushar K. Nandi, CTRPFP Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India
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| 2:15 pm |
Juliana Londono Velez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Anne Karing, University of Chicago Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:15 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:45 am |
Eliana Carranza, The World Bank Rob Garlick, Duke University Kate Orkin, University of Oxford Neil Rankin, University of Stellenbosch Job Search and Hiring with Two-sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
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| 10:00 am |
Kevin Donovan, Yale University and NBER Jianyu Lu, Central Bank of Chile Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Labor Market Flows and Development
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:45 am |
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Master Lecture: The Challenges of Social Protection in the Developing World |
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn and Lunch | |||