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

Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets
9:50 am

Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
10:40 am
Break
11:10 am

Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
12:00 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey

Making Entrepreneurs: The Return to Training Youth in Hard versus Soft Business Skills

Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries (slides)
2:20 pm

Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search (slides)
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm

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

Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation
11:20 am

Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Aspiring to a Better Future: Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?

Information, Norms, and Female Employment: An Experiment in India (slides)

Do Microenterprises Maximize Profits? A Vegetable Market Experiment in India
1:45 pm

Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda (slides)
2:35 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime
3:55 pm
Lightning Round (9 minutes each)

Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects (slides)

Trade Policy, Migration Restrictions, and Gender Inequality: The Story of China’s Left-Behind Children (slides)

Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy
4:25 pm
Adjourn