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

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER
Erin M. Kelley, The World Bank
Gregory Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago

Long-Range Forecasts as Climate Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Developing-Country Agriculture
9:50 am
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER
Ariel D. Zucker, University of California, Santa Cruz

Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am
Daniel Agness, University of California at Berkeley
Tigabu Getahun, Policy Studies Institute, Ethiopia

Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in Ethiopia
12:00 noon
Lightning Round 1 - 9 minutes each
12:00 pm
Luisa Cefala, University of California, Berkeley
Pedro Naso, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Michel A. Ndayikeza, University of Clermont Auvergne
Nicholas G. Swanson, University of California, Berkeley

Under-training by Employers in Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Burundi
12:10 pm
Md Amzad Hossain, University of Arkansas
Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas and NBER

Labor Market Consequences of Public Sector Salary Surge
12:20 pm
Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research

When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Lucia Corno, Cattolica University
Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University and NBER

Norm Replacement and Information. An Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting
2:20 pm
Dennis Egger, Univeristy of Oxford
Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felix Samy Soliman, University of Zurich
Nachiket Shah, University of California, Berkeley
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley

Slack and Economic Development
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Nina Buchmann, Yale University
Carl Meyer, Stanford University
Colin Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania

Paternalistic Discrimination
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
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Soeren J. Henn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Laura Paler, American University
Wilson Prichard, University of Toronto
Cyrus Samii, New York University
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER

Seeing like a Citizen: Experimental Evidence on How Empowerment Affects Engagement with the State
11:20 am
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Camille Falezan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marie Christelle Mabeu, Princeton University
Pauline Rossi, CREST - Ecole Polytechnique

Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Lightning Round 2 - 9 minutes each
1:15 pm
Tom Bearpark, Princeton University
Archana Patankar, Green Globe Consulting
Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago

Rainfall and Death in a Developing Megacity
1:25 pm
Ian Herzog, Huron University College
Siyuan Liu, University of Toronto
Yue Yu, University of Toronto

National Road Upgrading and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ugandan Households
1:35 pm
Muhammad Meki, University of Oxford

Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance (slides)
1:45 pm
Yulu Tang, Harvard University

To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks
2:35 pm
Break
3:05 pm
Anne Karing, University of Chicago
Edward Jee, University of Chicago
Karim Naguib, AstraZeneca

Optimal Policy in the Presence of Social Image Concerns
3:55 pm
Lightning Round 3 - 9 minutes each
3:55 pm
Nina Roussille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Amen Jalal, London School of Economics

The Illusion of Time: Female Job Search and Employment
4:05 pm
Duncan Webb, Princeton University

Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India
4:15 pm
Lisa Y. Ho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Suhani Jalota, Stanford University
Anahita Karandikar, University of British Columbia

Bringing Work Home: Flexible Work Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal
4:25 pm
Adjourn