SI 2024 Development Economics
Shawn Cole, Oeindrila Dube, Andrew Foster, Seema Jayachandran, Supreet Kaur, Kaivan Munshi, and Daniel Xu, Organizers
July 22-23, 2024
Parkview
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Monday, July 22 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
Long-Range Forecasts as Climate Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Developing-Country Agriculture |
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| 9:50 am |
Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise |
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| 10:40 am | Break | |
| 11:10 am |
Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in Ethiopia |
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| 12:00 noon | Lightning Round 1 - 9 minutes each | |
| 12:00 pm |
Under-training by Employers in Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Burundi |
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| 12:10 pm |
Labor Market Consequences of Public Sector Salary Surge |
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| 12:20 pm |
When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm |
Norm Replacement and Information. An Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting |
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| 2:20 pm |
Slack and Economic Development |
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| 3:10 pm | Break | |
| 3:40 pm |
Paternalistic Discrimination |
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |
| Tuesday, July 23 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
Invited Lecture Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER Institutional Design and Emissions Reduction in Low State Capacity Settings |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am |
Seeing like a Citizen: Experimental Evidence on How Empowerment Affects Engagement with the State |
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| 11:20 am |
Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | Lightning Round 2 - 9 minutes each | |
| 1:15 pm |
Rainfall and Death in a Developing Megacity |
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| 1:25 pm |
National Road Upgrading and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ugandan Households |
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| 1:35 pm |
Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance |
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| 1:45 pm |
To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |
| 3:05 pm |
Optimal Policy in the Presence of Social Image Concerns |
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| 3:55 pm | Lightning Round 3 - 9 minutes each | |
| 3:55 pm |
The Illusion of Time: Female Job Search and Employment |
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| 4:05 pm |
Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India |
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| 4:15 pm |
Bringing Work Home: Flexible Work Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal |
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| 4:25 pm | Adjourn | |