SI 2023 Development Economics

Orazio Attanasio, Emily Breza, Claudio Ferraz, Rachel Glennerster, Seema Jayachandran, Jeremy Magruder, Anant Nyshadham, and Leonard Wantchekon, Organizers

July 24-25, 2023

Parkview Room

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 24
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Lauren F. Bergquist, Yale University and NBER Craig McIntosh, University of California at San Diego Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets
9:50 am	Gregor Singer, London School of Economics Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas and NBER Tilman Graff, Harvard University Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
12:00 pm	Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
	Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley Alice H. Huang, University of California, Berkeley Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
	Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley David Contreras-Loya, University of California, Berkeley Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Dana Carney, University of California, Berkeley Making Entrepreneurs: The Return to Training Youth in Hard versus Soft Business Skills
	Johannes Bos, American Institute for Research Abu S. Shonchoy, Florida International University Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore Akib Khan, Stockholm School of Economics Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Abhijit Chowdhury, John C. Martin Centre for Liver Research and Innovations Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER Jeffrey Hammer, National Council of Applied Economic Research Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER Aakash Mohpal, The World Bank The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries (slides)
2:20 pm	Andrea Kiss, Carnegie Mellon University Rob Garlick, Duke University Kate Orkin, University of Oxford Lukas Hensel, Peking University Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search (slides)
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER Vincent Rollet, MIT Electoral Turnovers
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Invited Lecture: Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER Disasters
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Binta Zahra Diop, Stanford University Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation
11:20 am	Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
	Kate Orkin, University of Oxford Rob Garlick, Duke University Mahreen Mahmud, University of Exeter Richard Sedlmayr, The Agency Fund Johannes Haushofer, Stockholm University and NBER Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?
	Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College Information, Norms, and Female Employment: An Experiment in India (slides)
	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Greg Fischer, London School of Economics Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and NBER Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia Benjamin N. Roth, Harvard University Do Microenterprises Maximize Profits? A Vegetable Market Experiment in India
1:45 pm	Anna Vitali, New York University Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda (slides)
2:35 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego Carlos Medina, Banco de la Republica de Colombia Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER Daniel Ramos, Johns Hopkins SAIS Jorge A. Tamayo, Harvard University Audrey Tiew, New York University Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime
3:55 pm	Lightning Round (9 minutes each)
	Matteo Bobba, Toulouse School of Economics Veronica Frisancho, CAF Marco Pariguana, University of Edinburgh Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects (slides)
	Xuwen Gao, Zhejiang University Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER Ran Song, National University of Singapore Wenquan Liang, Jinan University Trade Policy, Migration Restrictions, and Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children (slides)
	Sabyasachi Das, Ashoka University Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy
4:25 pm	Adjourn