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	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, Stanford 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