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Session 1: Improving Education in Africa
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Jenny Aker, Tufts University |
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| 1. Powering Education |
| Presented by: Fadi Hassan, Trinity College Dublin |
Discussant: Jenny Aker, Tufts University
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| 2. Can Government School Upgrades Up Grades? Evidence from a School Promotion Program in Kenya |
| Presented by: Andrew Brudevold-Newman, University of Maryland |
Discussant: Fadi Hassan, Trinity College Dublin
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| 3. Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia |
| Presented by: Todd Pugatch, Oregon State University; IZA |
Discussant: Andrew Brudevold-Newman, University of Maryland
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| 4. “Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger” |
| Presented by: Jenny Aker, Tufts University |
Discussant: Todd Pugatch, Oregon State University; IZA
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Session 2: Labor shocks and policies
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Jason Russ, George Washington University |
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| 1. Maternity Leave Legislation, Prohibition of Night-Work and Women's Labour Market Outcomes |
| Presented by: salma ahmed, Deakin University |
Discussant: Jason Russ, George Washington University
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| 2. Maternity and Labor Markets: Impact of Legislation in Colombia |
| Presented by: Carmina Vargas, Banco de la República de Colombia |
Discussant: salma ahmed, Deakin University
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| 3. Economic Shocks and Labour Market Flexibility |
| Presented by: Simon Franklin, University of Oxford |
Discussant: Carmina Vargas, Banco de la República de Colombia
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| 4. The Long-Term Economic Effect of High Temperatures: Evidence from Earnings Data in Ecuador |
| Presented by: Jason Russ, George Washington University |
Discussant: Simon Franklin, University of Oxford
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Session 3: Savings and Insurance
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Dyotona Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre |
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| 1. Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency and the Default Effect in Afghanistan |
| Presented by: Tarek Ghani, Princeton University |
Discussant: Dyotona Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
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| 2. Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India |
| Presented by: Vincent Somville, Chr. Michelsen Institute |
Discussant: Tarek Ghani, Princeton University
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| 3. Insurance against cognitive droughts |
| Presented by: Guilherme Lichand, Harvard University |
Discussant: Vincent Somville, Chr. Michelsen Institute
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| 4. Dynamic Incentives and Compulsory Savings in Microfinance |
| Presented by: Dyotona Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre |
Discussant: Guilherme Lichand, Harvard University
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Session 4: Fetal origins and Sanitation
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Anant Nyshadham, Boston College |
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| 1. The Nutritional Impacts Of Sanitation At Scale: Ethiopia, 2000-2011 |
| Presented by: Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Discussant: Anant Nyshadham, Boston College
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| 2. La Niña Y Los Niños: Effects of an Unexpected Winter on Early Life Human Capital and Family Responses |
| Presented by: Rafael Santos Villagran, Universidad de los Andes |
Discussant: Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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| 3. Violence and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mexican Drug War |
| Presented by: Muhammad Nasir, Clark University |
Discussant: Rafael Santos Villagran, Universidad de los Andes
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| 4. Fetal Origins of Mental Health: Evidence from Africa |
| Presented by: Anant Nyshadham, Boston College |
Discussant: Muhammad Nasir, Clark University
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Session 5: Finance and Development
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Daniel Schwartz, MasterCard |
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| 1. Status and Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents |
| Presented by: Yujin Jeong, American University |
Discussant: Daniel Schwartz, MasterCard
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| 2. Financial Development, Employment Heterogeneity, and Sectoral Dynamics |
| Presented by: Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Tufts University |
Discussant: Yujin Jeong, American University
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| 3. Doing Well by Doing Good? Empirical Evidence from Microfinance |
| Presented by: Catalina Martinez, University of Zurich |
Discussant: Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Tufts University
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| 4. The Technology to Advance Equal Financial Opportunity: How emerging electronic payment technology can provide financial services to underserved communities |
| Presented by: Daniel Schwartz, MasterCard |
Discussant: Catalina Martinez, University of Zurich
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Session 6: Voting, Revenue, and Service Delivery
November 7, 2015 9:00 to 10:50
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Luis Martinez, London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| 1. Resource Transfers to Local Governments: Evidence of Political Manipulation and Effects on Voting Patterns in West Bengal |
| Presented by: Anusha Nath, University of Minnesota |
Discussant: Luis Martinez, London School of Economics and Political Science
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| 2. On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Evidence from Africa |
| Presented by: Thiemo Fetzer, University of Warwick |
Discussant: Anusha Nath, University of Minnesota
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| 3. The One Child Policy and Promotion of Mayors in China |
| Presented by: Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University |
Discussant: Thiemo Fetzer, University of Warwick
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| 4. Sources of revenue and government performance: theory and evidence from Colombia |
| Presented by: Luis Martinez, London School of Economics and Political Science |
Discussant: Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University
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Session 7: Information, Expectations, and the Returns to Schooling
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Alex Eble, Brown University |
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| 1. Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City |
| Presented by: Jérémie Gignoux, Paris School of Economics |
Discussant: Alex Eble, Brown University
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| 2. The Effects of a Centralized College Admission Mechanism on Migration and College Enrollment: Evidence from Brazil |
| Presented by: Cecilia Machado, Getulio Vargas Foundation FGV-EPGE |
Discussant: Jérémie Gignoux, Paris School of Economics
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| 3. Bride Price and the Returns to Education for Women |
| Presented by: Natalie Bau, University of Toronto |
Discussant: Cecilia Machado, Getulio Vargas Foundation FGV-EPGE
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| 4. Demand for schooling, returns to schooling, and the role of credentials |
| Presented by: Alex Eble, Brown University |
Discussant: Natalie Bau, University of Toronto
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Session 8: Labor allocation
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Emily Conover, Hamilton College |
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| 1. Work Incentives and Welfare Programs. Evidence on Real and Reporting Effects in Uruguay |
| Presented by: Guillermo Cruces, CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
Discussant: Slesh Shrestha, National University of Singapore
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| 2. The Productivity Effects of Labour Reallocation: Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Jonathan Colmer, London School of Economics |
Discussant: Guillermo Cruces, CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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| 3. Missing Men and Female Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Mexican Migration |
| Presented by: Emily Conover, Hamilton College |
Discussant: Jonathan Colmer, London School of Economics
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| 4. Pay and Mission: The Impact of Performance Incentives on Organizational Goals, Mission, and Worker Motivation |
| Presented by: Slesh Shrestha, National University of Singapore |
Discussant: Emily Conover, Hamilton College
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Session 9: History: Trade, Diversification, and Growth
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University |
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| 1. Textiles and the Historical Emergence of Gender Equality in China |
| Presented by: Melanie Meng Xue, UCLA Anderson School of Management |
Discussant: Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University
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| 2. Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America |
| Presented by: Elisabeth Perlman, Boston University |
Discussant: Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics
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| 3. Population Diversity and the Emergence of Trade and the State |
| Presented by: Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University |
Discussant: Elisabeth Perlman, Boston University
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| 4. THE CULTURAL DIFFUSION OF THE FERTILITY TRANSITION: EVIDENCE FROM INTERNAL MIGRATION IN 19TH CENTURY FRANCE |
| Presented by: Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics |
Discussant: Melanie Meng Xue, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Session 10: Formal and Informal Risk Sharing and Savings
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Matthieu Delpierre, LISER |
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| 1. The impact of index-based insurance on informal risk-sharing arrangements |
| Presented by: Matthieu Delpierre, LISER |
Discussant: Brian Quistorff, University of Maryland
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| 2. Does group inclusion hurt financial inclusion? Evidence from ultra-poor members of Ugandan savings groups |
| Presented by: Alfredo Burlando, University of Oregon |
Discussant: Matthieu Delpierre, LISER
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| 3. Does Financial Inclusion Exclude? The Effect of Access to Savings on Informal Risk-Sharing in Kenya |
| Presented by: Felipe Dizon, University of California- Davis |
Discussant: Alfredo Burlando, University of Oregon
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| 4. Credit Constraints, Discounting and Investment in Health: Evidence from Micropayments for Clean Water in Dhaka |
| Presented by: Brian Quistorff, University of Maryland |
Discussant: Felipe Dizon, University of California- Davis
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Session 11: Fertility Choices
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Shamma Alam, Dickinson College |
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| 1. A Macrosimulation Model of the Effect of Fertility on Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria |
| Presented by: Mahesh Karra, Harvard University |
Discussant: Shamma Alam, Dickinson College
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| 2. Missing Girls: Ultrasound Access, Fertility, and Gender Discrimination |
| Presented by: S Anukriti, Boston College |
Discussant: Mahesh Karra, Harvard University
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| 3. Family Size and the Demand for Sex Selection: Evidence From China |
| Presented by: Sam Marden, London School of Economics |
Discussant: S Anukriti, Boston College
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| 4. Income Shocks, Contraceptive Use and Timing of Fertility |
| Presented by: Shamma Alam, Dickinson College |
Discussant: Sam Marden, London School of Economics
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Session 12: Identifying (nonstandard) preferences and their implications
November 7, 2015 11:10 to 13:00
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School |
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| 1. Measuring Trust in Institutions: An Experimental Study Using Time Preference Elicitation |
| Presented by: Maria Isabel Santana, University of Mannheim |
Discussant: Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School
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| 2. Catching Up or Pulling Down? Experimental Evidence on Interpersonal Comparisons, Effort, and Destructive Actions among Dairy Farmers in Bolivia |
| Presented by: Eliana Zeballos, UC Davis |
Discussant: Maria Isabel Santana, University of Mannheim
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| 3. Can Rationality Be Taught? Experimental Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Annemie Maertens, University of Sussex |
Discussant: Eliana Zeballos, UC Davis
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| 4. Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan |
| Presented by: Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School |
Discussant: Annemie Maertens, University of Sussex
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Session 13: Interrelationships between Elections and Corruption
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Giacomo De Luca, University of York |
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| 1. Political Dynasties and the Quality of Government |
| Presented by: Arthur Braganca, CEDEPLAR / UFMG |
Discussant: Giacomo De Luca, University of York
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| 2. The Impacts of Local Control over Political Institutions: Evidence from State Splitting in India |
| Presented by: Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College |
Discussant: Arthur Braganca, CEDEPLAR / UFMG
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| 3. Do Criminally Accused Politicians Affect Economic Outcomes? Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Yogesh Uppal, Youngstown State University |
Discussant: Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
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| 4. Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics? |
| Presented by: Giacomo De Luca, University of York |
Discussant: Yogesh Uppal, Youngstown State University
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Session 14: Intrahousehold allocation: Complex households
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Marie Boltz, Paris School of Economics |
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| 1. Business is tough, but family is worse: The role of family constraints on microenterprise development in Uganda |
| Presented by: Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut |
Discussant: Marie Boltz, Paris School of Economics
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| 2. Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women's Social Status in India |
| Presented by: Sulagna Mookerjee, Georgetown University SFS-Q |
Discussant: Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut
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| 3. Norms of Allocation within Nuclear and Extended-Family Households |
| Presented by: Harounan Kazianga, Oklahoma State University |
Discussant: Sulagna Mookerjee, Georgetown University SFS-Q
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| 4. Income Hiding and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment |
| Presented by: Marie Boltz, Paris School of Economics |
Discussant: Harounan Kazianga, Oklahoma State University
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Session 15: Poverty, Inequality, and Transfers
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Stephen Smith, George Washington University |
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| 1. The Contribution of Increased Equity to the Estimated Social Benefits from a Transfer Program: An Illustration from PROGRESA |
| Presented by: Harold Alderman, IFPRI |
Discussant: Jeremy Shapiro, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
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| 2. Cash or Stuff: Benchmarking Aid Programs with a Preference-Based Approach |
| Presented by: Jeremy Shapiro, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics |
Discussant: Harold Alderman, IFPRI
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| 3. Your Gain Is My Pain: Negative Psychological Externalities of Cash Transfers |
| Presented by: Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University |
Discussant: Stephen Smith, George Washington University
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| 4. Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty |
| Presented by: Stephen Smith, George Washington University |
Discussant: Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University
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Session 16: Behavioral Labor
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz |
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| 1. Measuring Household Labor on Tanzanian Farms |
| Presented by: Vellore Arthi, University of Oxford |
Discussant: Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz
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| 2. The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality |
| Presented by: Yogita Shamdasani, Columbia University |
Discussant: Vellore Arthi, University of Oxford
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| 3. When No Bad Deed Goes Punished: A Relational Contracting Experiment in Ghana |
| Presented by: Elwyn Davies, University of Oxford |
Discussant: Yogita Shamdasani, Columbia University
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| 4. The Daily Grind: Cash Needs, Labor Supply and Self-Control |
| Presented by: Jonathan Robinson, UC Santa Cruz |
Discussant: Elwyn Davies, University of Oxford
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Session 17: Natural Resources Management and Economics
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Raymond Guiteras, University of Maryland |
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| 1. Mining, local employment, and gender: evidence from the closure of UK coal mines |
| Presented by: Fernando Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser University |
Discussant: Raymond Guiteras, University of Maryland
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| 2. Deforestation political business cycles in the Brazilian Amazon |
| Presented by: Sharon Pailler, Clark University |
Discussant: Fernando Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser University
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| 3. Routine Disasters: Floods, Human Capital and Adaptation in Bangladesh |
| Presented by: Amir Jina, University of Chicago |
Discussant: Sharon Pailler, Clark University
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Session 18: Firm adaptations
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Morgan Hardy, Brown University |
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| 1. Firm and Market Response to Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenyan Dairy Industry |
| Presented by: Lorenzo Casaburi, Stanford University |
Discussant: Morgan Hardy, Brown University
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| 2. Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity: Evidence from Air Pollution Exposure |
| Presented by: Namrata Kala, Yale university |
Discussant: Lorenzo Casaburi, Stanford University
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| 3. Melons as Lemons: Asymmetric Information, Consumer Learning and Seller Reputation |
| Presented by: Jie Bai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Discussant: Namrata Kala, Yale university
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| 4. It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion |
| Presented by: Morgan Hardy, Brown University |
Discussant: Jie Bai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Session 19: Politicians
November 7, 2015 14:00 to 15:50
B&H 161 |
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| Session Chair:
Yu-Hsiang Lei, London School of Economics |
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| 1. Female Legislators and Economic Growth: Evidence from State Elections in India |
| Presented by: Thushyanthan Baskaran, University of Goettingen |
Discussant: Yu-Hsiang Lei, London School of Economics
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| 2. An Empirical Investigation of the Legacies of Non-Democratic Regimes: The Case of Soeharto's Mayors in Indonesia |
| Presented by: Priya Mukherjee, College of William and Mary |
Discussant: Thushyanthan Baskaran, University of Goettingen
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| 3. Political dynasties and female political representation in the Philippines |
| Presented by: Sahar Parsa, Tufts University |
Discussant: Priya Mukherjee, College of William and Mary
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| 4. Harvesting Connections in A Crony Economy: Evidence from China |
| Presented by: Yu-Hsiang Lei, London School of Economics |
Discussant: Sahar Parsa, Tufts University
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Session 20: Intrahousehold allocation: Spouses
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Rachel Heath, University of Washington |
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| 1. Status Inheritance Rules and Intrahousehold Bargaining |
| Presented by: Li Han, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Discussant: Rachel Heath, University of Washington
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| 2. Measuring and Changing Control: Women’s Empowerment and Targeted Transfers |
| Presented by: Alex Armand, University of Navarra |
Discussant: Li Han, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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| 3. Strategic Choices in Polygamous Households: Theory and Evidence from Senegal |
| Presented by: Pauline Rossi, PSE-CREST |
Discussant: Alex Armand, University of Navarra
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| 4. Worth Fighting For: Daughters Improve their Mothers' Autonomy in South Asia |
| Presented by: Rachel Heath, University of Washington |
Discussant: Pauline Rossi, PSE-CREST
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Session 21: Understanding and Preventing Corruption
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Clément Imbert, Oxford University |
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| 1. Social Monitoring and Electoral Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan |
| Presented by: Robert Gonzalez, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Discussant: Clément Imbert, Oxford University
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| 2. Jobs for Sale: Bribery and Misallocation in Government Recruitment in India |
| Presented by: Jeff Weaver, Yale University |
Discussant: Robert Gonzalez, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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| 3. Political Connections and Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Tunisia |
| Presented by: Bob Rijkers, The World Bank |
Discussant: Jeff Weaver, Yale University
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| 4. Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India's Employment Guarantee |
| Presented by: Clément Imbert, Oxford University |
Discussant: Bob Rijkers, The World Bank
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Session 22: The Historical Origins of Growth and Development
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Ben Zou, Michigan State University |
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| 1. Instrumental Variables and Long-Run Economic Growth |
| Presented by: Greg Casey, Brown University |
Discussant: Ben Zou, Michigan State University
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| 2. How much long-run economic growth happens at the country level? |
| Presented by: Diego Anzoategui, New York University |
Discussant: Greg Casey, Brown University
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| 3. Economic Growth among a Network of Industries |
| Presented by: Will Johnson, Boston University |
Discussant: Diego Anzoategui, New York University
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| 4. Industrialization from Scratch: The Persistent Effects of China's "Third Front Movement" |
| Presented by: Ben Zou, Michigan State University |
Discussant: Will Johnson, Boston University
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Session 23: Poverty / income mobility / methods
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University |
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| 1. Estimating Poverty with Panel Data, Comparably: An Example from Jordan |
| Presented by: Umar Serajuddin, World Bank |
Discussant: Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University
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| 2. On the construction of synthetic panels |
| Presented by: Hector Moreno, Paris School of Economics |
Discussant: Umar Serajuddin, World Bank
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| 3. When Measure Matters: Coresident Sample Selection Bias in Estimating Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries |
| Presented by: M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University |
Discussant: Hector Moreno, Paris School of Economics
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| 4. Estimating Income Mobility when Income is Measured with Error: The Case of South Africa |
| Presented by: Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University |
Discussant: M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University
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Session 24: Household Behavior and the Environment
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida |
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| 1. Economics Of A Light Bulb: Experimental Evidence On Cfls And End-User Behavior |
| Presented by: Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan |
Discussant: Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida
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| 2. Understanding the Influence of Government Controlled Media: Evidence from Air Pollution in China |
| Presented by: Jie Bai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Discussant: Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan
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| 3. Out of the Darkness and Into the Light?: Development Effects of Rural Electrification in India |
| Presented by: Louis Preonas, UC Berkeley |
Discussant: Jie Bai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 4. Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes |
| Presented by: Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida |
Discussant: Louis Preonas, UC Berkeley
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Session 25: Industry
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Pierre Bachas, UC Berkeley |
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| 1. Business as Unusual. An Explanation of the Increase of Private Economic Activity in High-Conflict Areas in Afghanistan |
| Presented by: Tommaso Ciarli, University of Sussex |
Discussant: Pierre Bachas, UC Berkeley
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| 2. The Misallocation of Land and Other Factors of Production in India |
| Presented by: Arti Grover, World Bank |
Discussant: Tommaso Ciarli, University of Sussex
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| 3. Extractive Industries, Production Shocks, and Criminality: Evidence from a Middle-Income Country |
| Presented by: Anja Tolonen, Barnard College, Columbia University |
Discussant: Arti Grover, World Bank
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| 4. Not(ch) your average tax system: corporate taxation under weak enforcement |
| Presented by: Pierre Bachas, UC Berkeley |
Discussant: Anja Tolonen, Barnard College, Columbia University
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Session 26: State Capacity
November 7, 2015 16:10 to 18:00
B&H 161 |
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| Session Chair:
Sanjay Jain, Cambridge University |
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| 1. The persistence of state capacity in Rwanda |
| Presented by: Leander Heldring, Oxford University |
Discussant: Sanjay Jain, Cambridge University
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| 2. Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Polling Officer Identity and Electoral Outcomes in India |
| Presented by: Yusuf Neggers, Harvard University |
Discussant: Leander Heldring, Oxford University
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| 3. Fixing Broken Windows: The Effect of Government Maintenance Work on Citizens’ Complaints |
| Presented by: Laura Trucco, Harvard University |
Discussant: Yusuf Neggers, Harvard University
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| 4. State Capacity, Redistributive Compensation, and the Political Economy of Economic Policy Reform |
| Presented by: Sanjay Jain, Cambridge University |
Discussant: Laura Trucco, Harvard University
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Session 27: Poster Session
November 7, 2015 18:00 to 21:00
Sayles Hall |
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| Session Chair:
Andrew Foster, Brown University |
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| 1. Christianity and Infant Health in India |
| Presented by: Kathleen McQueeney, Brandeis |
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| 2. Adapting to the Sea: The Rise of Individualism in Maritime Societies |
| Presented by: Anne Sofie Knudsen, University of Copenhagen |
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| 3. Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War |
| Presented by: Veronica Montalva, Duke University |
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| 4. Do You Really Know the Salary of Your Spouse? |
| Presented by: ADAN SILVERIO MURILLO, University of Minnesota |
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| 5. Public Pain and Private Gain: An Analysis of Moonlighting of Public Health Professionals |
| Presented by: Sarmistha Pal, University of Surrey |
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| 6. Islamic Law and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Sharia Introduction in Nigeria |
| Presented by: Marco Alfano, University College London |
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| 7. Long-Lasting Income Shock and Adaptations: Evidence from Coral Bleaching in Indonesia |
| Presented by: Pasita Chaijaroen, University of Washington |
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| 8. Political Connections and Rent-seeking: Evidence from China’s Land Market |
| Presented by: Ting Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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| 9. Learning About Oneself: The Effects of Signaling Academic Ability on School Choice |
| Presented by: Veronica Frisancho, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) |
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| 10. The Impact of Mass Bed Net Distribution Programs on Politics: Evidence from Tanzania |
| Presented by: Kevin Croke, Harvard School of Public Health |
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| 11. Crowdsourcing government accountability: Experimental evidence from Pakistan |
| Presented by: Arman Rezaee, University of California, San Diego |
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| 12. To live in villages is an order: The long-term consequences of villagization in Tanzania |
| Presented by: Ani Silwal, University of Sussex |
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| 13. Pathways to Preventive Health, Evidence from India's Rural Roads Program |
| Presented by: Ashish Sachdeva, University of Southern California |
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| 14. The good, the bad, and the ugly test effect: Does biomedical testing in surveys change health care seeking behavior? |
| Presented by: Zlata Tanovic, AIID, VU University Amsterdam |
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| 15. Using Technology to Strengthen Democracy |
| Presented by: Sisir Debnath, Indian School of Business |
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Session 28: Nutrition and Obesity
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Emilio Gutierrez, ITAM |
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| 1. Soda Consumption in the Tropics: The Trade-Off between Obesity and Diarrhea in Developing Countries |
| Presented by: Patricia Ritter Burga, University of Chicago |
Discussant: Emilio Gutierrez, ITAM
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| 2. Fetal Origins of Personality: Effects of early life circumstances on adult personality traits |
| Presented by: Sofya Krutikova, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
Discussant: Patricia Ritter Burga, University of Chicago
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| 3. Nutrition incentives in dairy contract farming in Northern Senegal |
| Presented by: Melissa Hidrobo, International Food Policy Research Institute |
Discussant: Sofya Krutikova, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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| 4. Taxing Calories |
| Presented by: Emilio Gutierrez, ITAM |
Discussant: Melissa Hidrobo, International Food Policy Research Institute
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Session 29: Effects of Conflict
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Owen Ozier, The World Bank |
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| 1. Long Run Effects Of Wartime Institutions In Post-War Angola |
| Presented by: Wolfgang Stojetz, Yale University |
Discussant: Owen Ozier, The World Bank
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| 2. Can the Wounds of War be Healed? Experimental Evidence on Reconciliation in Sierra Leone |
| Presented by: Jacobus Cilliers, Georgetown |
Discussant: Wolfgang Stojetz, Yale University
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| 3. Preparing for Genocide: Community Work in Rwanda |
| Presented by: Miri Stryjan, Stockholm University |
Discussant: Jacobus Cilliers, Georgetown
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| 4. The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| Presented by: Owen Ozier, The World Bank |
Discussant: Miri Stryjan, Stockholm University
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Session 30: Trade, Technology and Infrastructure
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University |
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| 1. Foreign Employees as Channel for Technology Transfer: Evidence From MNC’s Subsidiaries in Mexico |
| Presented by: Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, ESSEC Business School and THEMA |
Discussant: Adam Storeygard, Tufts University
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| 2. Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development |
| Presented by: Simon Alder, University of North Carolina at Chapel H |
Discussant: Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, ESSEC Business School and THEMA
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| 3. International Technology Transfer and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from the High-Speed Rail Sector in China |
| Presented by: Yu Qin, National University of Singapore |
Discussant: Simon Alder, University of North Carolina at Chapel H
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| 4. The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa |
| Presented by: Adam Storeygard, Tufts University |
Discussant: Yu Qin, National University of Singapore
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Session 31: Agricultural Policy Interventions
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Kelsey Jack, Tufts University |
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| 1. Protecting the Breadbasket with Trees? The Effect of the Great Plains Shelterbelt Project on Agricultural Production |
| Presented by: Tianshu Li, University of Virginia |
Discussant: Kelsey Jack, Tufts University
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| 2. Estimating the Short Term Impacts of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in Peru: A Geographical Regression Discontinuity Approach |
| Presented by: Marcos Agurto Adrianzén, Universidad de Piura - Virginia Tech |
Discussant: Tianshu Li, University of Virginia
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| 3. How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Women Farmers? Evidence from a ‘Reverse-Randomized Control Trial’ in Uganda |
| Presented by: Vida Bobic, The George Washington University |
Discussant: Marcos Agurto Adrianzén, Universidad de Piura - Virginia Tech
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| 4. Seasonal liquidity constraints and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Zambia |
| Presented by: Kelsey Jack, Tufts University |
Discussant: Vida Bobic, The George Washington University
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Session 32: Migration impacts
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Sveta Milusheva, Brown University |
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| 1. Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience |
| Presented by: Paolo Abarcar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Discussant: Sveta Milusheva, Brown University
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| 2. Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010 |
| Presented by: Scott Fulford, Boston College |
Discussant: Paolo Abarcar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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| 3. Individual Migration and Household Incomes |
| Presented by: Julia Garlick, Yale University |
Discussant: Scott Fulford, Boston College
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| 4. The Health Cost of Internal Migration: Measuring the Effect of Visits on Malaria Incidence |
| Presented by: Sveta Milusheva, Brown University |
Discussant: Julia Garlick, Yale University
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Session 33: Experiments on uncertainty and expectations
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Michala Riis-Vestergaard, Princeton University |
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| 1. Debiasing on a Roll: Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning |
| Presented by: Martin Abel, Harvard University |
Discussant: Michala Riis-Vestergaard, Princeton University
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| 2. Cooperation and Expectations in Networks: Evidence from a Network Public Good Experiment in Rural India |
| Presented by: Stefano Caria, University of Oxford |
Discussant: Martin Abel, Harvard University
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| 3. The Effect of Lottery-Incentives on Labor Supply: A Firm Experiment in Malawi |
| Presented by: Lasse Brune, Yale University |
Discussant: Stefano Caria, University of Oxford
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| 4. The Social Cost of Randomization |
| Presented by: Michala Riis-Vestergaard, Princeton University |
Discussant: Lasse Brune, Yale University
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Session 34: Intrahousehold bargaining
November 8, 2015 8:30 to 10:20
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| Session Chair:
Robert Garlick, Duke University |
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| 1. His and Her Fertility Preferences: An Experimental Evaluation of Asymmetric Information in Family Planning |
| Presented by: Aine McCarthy, University of Minnesota |
Discussant: Robert Garlick, Duke University
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| 2. Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty |
| Presented by: Rossella Calvi, Boston College |
Discussant: Aine McCarthy, University of Minnesota
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| 3. Intrahousehold Effects Of A Child Labour Ban: Evidence From Brazil |
| Presented by: Caio Piza, World Bank |
Discussant: Rossella Calvi, Boston College
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| 4. Heterogeneity in the Efficiency of Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Investment in Children |
| Presented by: Robert Garlick, Duke University |
Discussant: Caio Piza, World Bank
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Session 35: Networks and Women's Health
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
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| Session Chair:
Damian Clarke, The University of Oxford |
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| 1. Externalities and Complementarities of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs: Evidence from Secondary Schools in Malawi |
| Presented by: Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Cornell University |
Discussant: Damian Clarke, The University of Oxford
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| 2. Peer Effects on Vaccine Take-up among Women: Experimental Evidence from Rural Nigeria |
| Presented by: Ryoko Sato, National University of Singapore |
Discussant: Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Cornell University
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| 3. Early Life Experience and Adult Fertility Preferences and Behavior: Evidence from Indonesia |
| Presented by: Dhanushka Thamarapani, Clark University |
Discussant: Ryoko Sato, National University of Singapore
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| 4. Maternal Mortality and Female Life Expectancy: The Importance of Gender Inequality |
| Presented by: Damian Clarke, The University of Oxford |
Discussant: Dhanushka Thamarapani, Clark University
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Session 36: Sources of Conflict
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
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| Session Chair:
Eoin McGuirk, Brown University |
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| 1. Mining Royalties and Incentives for Security Operations: Evidence from India’s Red Corridor |
| Presented by: Oliver Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics |
Discussant: Eoin McGuirk, Brown University
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| 2. Take what you can: property rights, contestability and conflict |
| Presented by: Thiemo Fetzer, University of Warwick |
Discussant: Oliver Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics
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| 3. Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict |
| Presented by: Samuel Bazzi, Boston University |
Discussant: Thiemo Fetzer, University of Warwick
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| 4. Economic Shocks and Varieties of Conflict: Global Prices, Real Income, and Local Violence in Africa |
| Presented by: Eoin McGuirk, Brown University |
Discussant: Samuel Bazzi, Boston University
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Session 37: Trade and Macro
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Martin Rotemberg, Harvard University |
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| 1. Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial |
| Presented by: Adam Osman, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
Discussant: Martin Rotemberg, Harvard University
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| 2. Trade Liberalization and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Urban India |
| Presented by: Reshad Ahsan, University of Melbourne |
Discussant: Adam Osman, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
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| 3. Revenue Mobilization through the VAT in Low-Income Countries |
| Presented by: Marina Mendes Tavares, ITAM and IMF |
Discussant: Reshad Ahsan, University of Melbourne
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| 4. Are We Undercounting Reallocation's Contribution to Growth? |
| Presented by: Martin Rotemberg, Harvard University |
Discussant: Marina Mendes Tavares, ITAM and IMF
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Session 38: Migration decisions
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Ashesh Prasann, Michigan State University |
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| 1. Get rich or die tryin’: Perceived earnings, perceived mortality rate and the value of statistical life of potential work-migrants from Nepal |
| Presented by: Maheshwor Shrestha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Discussant: Joseph-Simon Gorlach, University College London
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| 2. Migration decisions and persistent earnings differentials: Evidence from Thailand |
| Presented by: Ashish Shenoy, MIT |
Discussant: Maheshwor Shrestha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 3. The Spillover Effects of Public Works on Labor Allocation and Wages: Evidence from National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, India |
| Presented by: Ashesh Prasann, Michigan State University |
Discussant: Ashish Shenoy, MIT
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| 4. Migration under Borrowing Constraints |
| Presented by: Joseph-Simon Gorlach, University College London |
Discussant: Ashesh Prasann, Michigan State University
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Session 39: Rural Growth
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Margarita Gafaro, Brown University |
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| 1. Market Access and Occupational Choice: Evidence from Rural Roads in India |
| Presented by: Samuel Asher, University of Oxford |
Discussant: Margarita Gafaro, Brown University
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| 2. Returns to Capital and Ability: A Natural Experiment in Aceh, Indonesia |
| Presented by: Po Yin Wong, NHH Norwegian School of Economics |
Discussant: Samuel Asher, University of Oxford
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| 3. Fuelling Development: Sugarcane Expansion Impacts in Brazil |
| Presented by: Priscila Souza, CPI / PUC-Rio |
Discussant: Po Yin Wong, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
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| 4. Collective Property Rights and Agriculture |
| Presented by: Margarita Gafaro, Brown University |
Discussant: Priscila Souza, CPI / PUC-Rio
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Session 40: Institutions and Development
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Matthew Collin, Center for Global Development |
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| 1. When too much punishment decreases legality. The case of coca reducing policies in Colombia |
| Presented by: Juanita Vasquez-Escallon, Universität Mannheim |
Discussant: Matthew Collin, Center for Global Development
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| 2. Decentralization Without Representation (or Mobility): Implications for Rural Public Service Delivery |
| Presented by: Katrina Kosec, IFPRI |
Discussant: Juanita Vasquez-Escallon, Universität Mannheim
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| 3. The effects of communal land certification on land use: Evidence from Mexico |
| Presented by: Daley Kutzman, University of California, Berkeley |
Discussant: Katrina Kosec, IFPRI
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| 4. Falling Off the Map: The Impact of Formalizing (Some) Informal Settlements in Tanzania |
| Presented by: Matthew Collin, Center for Global Development |
Discussant: Daley Kutzman, University of California, Berkeley
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Session 41: Schools
November 8, 2015 10:40 to 12:30
B&H 161 |
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| Session Chair:
Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia |
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| 1. Buddha’s Grace Illuminates All: Temple Destruction, School Construction, and Economic Growth in the 20th Century China |
| Presented by: Shaoda Wang, UC Berkeley |
Discussant: Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia
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| 2. Economic Restructuring and Children's Educational Attainment: Lessons from China's State-owned Enterprises Reform in the Mid-1990s |
| Presented by: Renjie Ge, Georgetown University |
Discussant: Shaoda Wang, UC Berkeley
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| 3. School Reputation and School Choice in Brazil: a Regression Discontinuity Design |
| Presented by: Andrea Lepine, University of São Paulo |
Discussant: Renjie Ge, Georgetown University
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| 4. Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Primary Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania |
| Presented by: Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia |
Discussant: Andrea Lepine, University of São Paulo
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Session 42: Health & Development: Incentives and Information
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Nicholas Wilson, Reed College |
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| 1. Risk Vulnerability and Health Behavior: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War |
| Presented by: Shanthi Manian, University of California San Diego |
Discussant: Nicholas Wilson, Reed College
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| 2. Impact of an interactive mobile phone reproductive health program on knowledge and behavior among adolescent girls: a cluster-randomized trial |
| Presented by: Slawa Rokicki, Harvard University |
Discussant: Shanthi Manian, University of California San Diego
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| 3. Cash Transfers and Health: Mechanisms and Impacts |
| Presented by: Katrina Kosec, IFPRI |
Discussant: Slawa Rokicki, Harvard University
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| 4. Money, Masculinity, and Men's Health: Experimental Evidence on Demand for a Preventive Health Input |
| Presented by: Nicholas Wilson, Reed College |
Discussant: Katrina Kosec, IFPRI
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Session 43: Microfinance and Contracts
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Daniel Bjorkegren, |
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| 1. Migration, Liquidity Constraints, and Income Generation: Evidence from Randomized Credit Access in China |
| Presented by: Shu Cai, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech |
Discussant: Daniel Bjorkegren,
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| 2. Moral Incentives: Experimental Evidence from Repayments of an Islamic Credit Card |
| Presented by: Martin Kanz, The World Bank |
Discussant: Shu Cai, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech
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| 3. Commercialization and the Decline of Joint Liability Microcredit |
| Presented by: Jonathan de Quidt, Institute for International Economic Stu |
Discussant: Martin Kanz, The World Bank
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| 4. Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Loan Repayment |
| Presented by: Daniel Bjorkegren, |
Discussant: Jonathan de Quidt, Institute for International Economic Stu
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Session 44: Influencing Education
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Bryce Steinberg, Harvard University |
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| 1. The Great Expectations: Impact of One-Child Policy on Education of Girls |
| Presented by: Ang Sun, Renmin University of China |
Discussant: Bryce Steinberg, Harvard University
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| 2. The Intergenerational Impact of Early Life Adversity: Evidence from the Send-down Policy in China |
| Presented by: Weina Zhou, Dalhousie University |
Discussant: Ang Sun, Renmin University of China
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| 3. The Effects of Social Identity on Aspirations and Learning Outcomes: A Field Experiment in Rural India |
| Presented by: Priya Mukherjee, College of William and Mary |
Discussant: Weina Zhou, Dalhousie University
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| 4. Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Bryce Steinberg, Harvard University |
Discussant: Priya Mukherjee, College of William and Mary
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Session 45: Public Sector
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University |
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| 1. The Buck Stops Where? Federalism and Investment in Public Utilities: Evidence from the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector |
| Presented by: Evan Plous, Columbia University |
Discussant: Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University
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| 2. Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery in Early Twentieth Century America |
| Presented by: Steven Sprick Schuster, Colgate University |
Discussant: Evan Plous, Columbia University
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| 3. Does Public Healthcare Provision Spill Over Onto the Private Sector? Evidence from the Ugandan Antimalarial Market. |
| Presented by: Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Massachusetts, Boston |
Discussant: Steven Sprick Schuster, Colgate University
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| 4. Does insurance affect health care utilisation if the health system is polarised? Evidence from a South African natural experiment |
| Presented by: Rulof Burger, Stellenbosch University |
Discussant: Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Session 46: Firms and Markets
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Adrian Rubli, Brown University |
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| 1. Human Capital, Technology Adoption and Firm Performance: Impacts of China's Higher Education Expansion in the Late 1990s |
| Presented by: Lei Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Discussant: Adrian Rubli, Brown University
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| 2. Demand Forces of Technical Change - Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry |
| Presented by: Andreas Beerli, ETH Zurich |
Discussant: Lei Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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| 3. Middleman Minorities and Intergroup Conflict |
| Presented by: Seyhun SAKALLI, Paris School of Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics |
Discussant: Andreas Beerli, ETH Zurich
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| 4. Supply Regulations in the Market for Medicines: Evidence from an Antibiotics Law in Mexico |
| Presented by: Adrian Rubli, Brown University |
Discussant: Seyhun SAKALLI, Paris School of Economics, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
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Session 47: Methods: Surveys and Statistics
November 8, 2015 13:30 to 15:20
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1. Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Using Mobile Phones to Survey African Microenterprises |
| Presented by: Kate Orkin, University of Cambridge |
Discussant: Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley
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| 2. Exclusion Bias in the Estimation of Peer Effects |
| Presented by: Bet Caeyers, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
Discussant: Kate Orkin, University of Cambridge
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| 3. Recovering individual's resource shares in a household: Trade-o potential in the estimation of DLP |
| Presented by: Denni Tommasi, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Discussant: Bet Caeyers, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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| 4. Estimating Changes in Marginal Utility from Disaggregated Expenditures |
| Presented by: Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley |
Discussant: Denni Tommasi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Session 48: Effects of Financial Intermediation
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 141 |
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| Session Chair:
Rachael Meager, |
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| 1. Is informal risk-sharing less effective for the poor? Risk externalities and moral hazard in mutual insurance |
| Presented by: Bertrand Verheyden, LISER |
Discussant: Rachael Meager,
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| 2. Measuring The Average Impacts Of Credit: Evidence From The Indian Microfinance Crisis |
| Presented by: Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University |
Discussant: Bertrand Verheyden, LISER
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| 3. Lending in Developing and Developed Economies: Theory and Evidence from Hyderabad |
| Presented by: Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University |
Discussant: Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University
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| 4. Understanding the Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of 7 Randomized Experiments |
| Presented by: Rachael Meager, |
Discussant: Xiao Yu Wang, Duke University
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Session 49: Providing Education
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 153 |
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| Session Chair:
Annie Duflo, Innovations for Poverty Action |
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| 1. Economies of Scale and Heterogeneity in Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from School Consolidation in China |
| Presented by: Xiang Ma, Yale University |
Discussant: Annie Duflo, Innovations for Poverty Action
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| 2. Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Discussant: Xiang Ma, Yale University
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| 3. Incentives for Effort or Outputs? A Field Experiment to Improve Student Performance |
| Presented by: Sarojini Hirshleifer, UC San Diego |
Discussant: Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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| 4. Every Child Counts: Adapting and Evaluating Targeted Instruction Approaches into a New Context through a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in Ghana |
| Presented by: Annie Duflo, Innovations for Poverty Action |
Discussant: Sarojini Hirshleifer, UC San Diego
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Session 50: Technology spillovers
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 155 |
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| Session Chair:
Emilia Tjernstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| 1. The Crop Connection: Impact of Cell Phone Access on Crop Choice in Rural Pakistan |
| Presented by: Saher Asad, GWU |
Discussant: Emilia Tjernstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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| 2. Technology diffusion, outcome variability, and social networks: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya |
| Presented by: Andrew Crane-Droesch, |
Discussant: Saher Asad, GWU
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| 3. Spillovers and free riding in the provision of local public goods: a spatial network approach |
| Presented by: Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, University of Pennsylvania |
Discussant: Andrew Crane-Droesch,
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| 4. Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity |
| Presented by: Emilia Tjernstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Discussant: Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan, University of Pennsylvania
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Session 51: Gender
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 157 |
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| Session Chair:
Theodore Talbot, Center for Global Development |
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| 1. Unintended Spillovers of a Girls’ Empowerment Program in Rural Rajasthan: Targeting Matters |
| Presented by: Alan Griffith, University of Michigan |
Discussant: Theodore Talbot, Center for Global Development
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| 2. A New Framework for Measuring Heterogeneity in Childbearing Strategies When Parents Want Sons and Daughters |
| Presented by: Johannes Norling, University of Michigan |
Discussant: Alan Griffith, University of Michigan
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| 3. Are Gender Differences in Performance Innate or Socially Mediated? |
| Presented by: Florence Kondylis, World Bank |
Discussant: Johannes Norling, University of Michigan
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| 4. Does anyone pay attention to age-of-marriage laws? Discontinuity evidence from 73 developing countries. |
| Presented by: Theodore Talbot, Center for Global Development |
Discussant: Florence Kondylis, World Bank
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Session 52: Farmers
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 158 |
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| Session Chair:
Heitor Pellegrina, |
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| 1. Income and Malaria: Evidence from an Agricultural Intervention in Uganda |
| Presented by: Saurabh Singhal, UNU-WIDER |
Discussant: Kathryn Vasilaky, Columbia University
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| 2. Do Land Market Restrictions Hinder Structural Change in a Rural Economy? Evidence from Sri Lanka |
| Presented by: Forhad Shilpi, World Bank |
Discussant: Saurabh Singhal, UNU-WIDER
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| 3. Agricultural Trade and the Spatial Allocation of Farmers: Implications for Deforestation in Brazil |
| Presented by: Heitor Pellegrina, |
Discussant: Forhad Shilpi, World Bank
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| 4. Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos |
| Presented by: Kathryn Vasilaky, Columbia University |
Discussant: Heitor Pellegrina,
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Session 53: Political Economy
November 8, 2015 15:40 to 17:30
B&H 159 |
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| Session Chair:
Shiyu Bo, London School of Economics |
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| 1. May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program |
| Presented by: Laura Zimmermann, University of Georgia |
Discussant: Shiyu Bo, London School of Economics
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| 2. Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India |
| Presented by: Saad Gulzar, New York University |
Discussant: Laura Zimmermann, University of Georgia
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| 3. The Value of Centralization: Evidence from a Political Hierarchy Reform in China |
| Presented by: Shiyu Bo, London School of Economics |
Discussant: Saad Gulzar, New York University
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