2005 New England Universities Development Conference |
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Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Location | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | 23 September 13:00-15:00 | VGQ Lounge (Inn at Brown) | Child Labor | 3 |
| 2 | 23 September 13:00-15:00 | Joukowsky Forum | Development and Health | 4 |
| 3 | 23 September 13:00-15:00 | Birkelund Boardroom | Household Decisionmaking: Rural Production and Health | 4 |
| 4 | 23 September 13:00-15:00 | McKinney Conference Room | Risk Sharing | 4 |
| 5 | 23 September 15:30-17:30 | VGQ Lounge (Inn at Brown) | Education Policy | 3 |
| 6 | 23 September 15:30-17:30 | Birkelund Boardroom | Sexually Transmitted Disease | 4 |
| 7 | 23 September 15:30-17:30 | McKinney Conference Room | Environment | 3 |
| 8 | 23 September 15:30-17:30 | Joukowsky Forum | Microcredit | 4 |
| 9 | 24 September 8:30-10:30 | Joukowsky Forum | Household Effect on Education | 4 |
| 10 | 24 September 8:30-10:30 | Classroom 114 | Health and Medicine | 3 |
| 11 | 24 September 8:30-10:30 | McKinney Conference Room | Group-Based Credit | 4 |
| 12 | 24 September 8:30-10:30 | Classroom 116 | Political Corruption | 4 |
| 13 | 24 September 8:30-10:30 | Classroom 112 | Growth | 4 |
| 14 | 24 September 10:45-12:45 | Classroom 112 | Education | 3 |
| 15 | 24 September 10:45-12:45 | McKinney Conference Room | Inequality | 4 |
| 16 | 24 September 10:45-12:45 | Joukowsky Forum | Savings | 3 |
| 17 | 24 September 10:45-12:45 | Classroom 114 | Government | 4 |
| 18 | 24 September 10:45-12:45 | Classroom 116 | Vulnerability | 2 |
| 19 | 24 September 13:45-15:45 | Joukowsky Forum | Household Allocation | 3 |
| 20 | 24 September 13:45-15:45 | Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge | Poverty | 3 |
| 21 | 24 September 13:45-15:45 | McKinney Conference Room | Credit Constraints | 4 |
| 22 | 24 September 13:45-15:45 | Classroom 116 | Infrastructure | 2 |
| 23 | 24 September 16:15-18:15 | Joukowsky Forum | Gender Bias | 3 |
| 24 | 24 September 16:15-18:15 | Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge | Distribution and Welfare | 3 |
| 25 | 24 September 16:15-18:15 | McKinney Conference Room | Effects of Credit and Transfers | 4 |
| 26 | 24 September 16:15-18:15 | Classroom 116 | Economic Change and Well-Being | 3 |
| 27 | 24 September 18:45-21:30 | Andrews Hall | Mark Rosenzweig: International Migration and Global Development (Dinner and Keynote Speaker) | 0 |
| 28 | 25 September 8:30-10:30 | Joukowsky Forum | Children and Gender Bias | 3 |
| 29 | 25 September 8:30-10:30 | Classroom 116 | Labor/Wage | 3 |
| 30 | 25 September 8:30-10:30 | McKinney Conference Room | Trade and Growth | 4 |
| 31 | 25 September 8:30-10:30 | Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge | Family and Migration | 4 |
| 32 | 25 September 10:45-12:45 | Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge | Family Planning | 3 |
| 33 | 25 September 10:45-12:45 | Classroom 116 | Agriculture | 3 |
| 34 | 25 September 10:45-12:45 | Joukowsky Forum | Capital Finance | 4 |
| 35 | 25 September 10:45-12:45 | McKinney Conference Room | Migration | 4 |
35 sessions, 117 papers |
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2005 New England Universities Development Conference |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Child Labor |
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| Session Chair: T. Schultz, Yale University |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 13:00 - 15:00 |
| Location: VGQ Lounge (Inn at Brown) |
| Child Labor Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru |
| By Ana Dammert |
| Presented by: Ana Dammert, Syracuse University |
| Discussant: Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University |
| Trade Liberalization, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from India |
| By Eric Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova |
| Presented by: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College |
| Discussant: Alaka Holla, Brown University |
| Do wages compensate for harmful child labor? Evidence from the Philippines |
| By Dhushyanth Raju |
| Presented by: Dhushyanth Raju, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College |
Session 2: Development and Health |
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| Session Chair: Rohini Pande, |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 13:00 - 15:00 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Malaria |
| By Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmerman |
| Presented by: Douglas Gollin, |
| Discussant: David Weil, Brown University |
| Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women |
| By Emily Oster |
| Presented by: Emily Oster, private |
| Discussant: Vijayendra Rao, World Bank |
| Diseases and Development |
| By Shankha Chakraborty, Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez-Sebastian |
| Presented by: Chris Papageorgiou, Lousiana State University |
| Discussant: Emily Oster, private |
| Economic Effects of Malaria Eradication: Evidence from the Malarial Periphery |
| By Adrienne M. Lucas |
| Presented by: Adrienne Lucas, Brown University |
| Discussant: Douglas Gollin, |
Session 3: Household Decisionmaking: Rural Production and Health |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Foster, Brown |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 13:00 - 15:00 |
| Location: Birkelund Boardroom |
| Do neighbors' actions affect a household's decision to seek safe water? |
| By Malgosia Madajewicz, Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino |
| Presented by: Malgosia Madajewicz, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Kaivan Munshi, Brown University |
| Estimating Spatial Interactions: Evidence from Forest Clearing in Costa Rica |
| By Juan Robalino and Alex Pfaff |
| Presented by: Juan Robalino, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Daniel Bennett, Brown University |
| Inequality and the Sustainability of Agricultural Productivity Growth:Groundwater and the Green Revolution in Rural India |
| By Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig |
| Presented by: Andrew Foster, Brown |
| Discussant: Juan Robalino, Columbia University |
| INTRAHOUSEHOLD EFFECTS OF NON-PRICE CREDIT RATIONING |
| By Diana Fletschner and Michael R. Carter |
| Presented by: Diana Fletschner, University of Washington |
| Discussant: Joyce Chen, Harvard University |
Session 4: Risk Sharing |
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| Session Chair: Tanya Rosenblat, |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 13:00 - 15:00 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan |
| By Pierre Dubois |
| Presented by: Pierre Dubois, |
| Discussant: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University |
| The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks |
| By Marcel Fafchamps and Flore Gubert |
| Presented by: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University |
| Discussant: Xavier Gine, The World Bank |
| Measuring Trust in Social Networks |
| By Dean Karlan (Yale), Markus Mobius (Harvard), Tanya Rosenblat (Wesleyan) |
| Presented by: Tanya Rosenblat, |
| Discussant: Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Are Farmers Good Weather Forcasters? |
| By Xavier Giné, Don Larson, Robert Townsend, James Vickery |
| Presented by: Xavier Gine, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Alan de Brauw, |
Session 5: Education Policy |
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| Session Chair: Vijayendra Rao, World Bank |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Location: VGQ Lounge (Inn at Brown) |
| Redistributing Educational Attainment: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment in India |
| By Joydeep Roy |
| Presented by: Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute |
| Discussant: Gustavo Bobonis, |
| Are Women Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India |
| By Irma Clots-Figueras |
| Presented by: Irma Clots-Figueras, LSE and STICERD |
| Discussant: Dimitra Politi, |
| Teacher Shocks and Student Learning: Evidence from Zambia |
| By Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana and Pramila Krishnan |
| Presented by: James Habyarimana, public |
| Discussant: Dimitra Politi, |
Session 6: Sexually Transmitted Disease |
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| Session Chair: Alexander Pfaff, Columbia University |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Location: Birkelund Boardroom |
| Marital Shopping and Epidemic AIDS |
| By Jeremy Magruder |
| Presented by: Jeremy Magruder, Yale University |
| Discussant: Daniel Bennett, Brown University |
| Regulating the Oldest Profession:Economic and Public Health Implications for the Sex Market |
| By Manisha Shah |
| Presented by: Manisha Shah, UC Berkeley |
| Discussant: Jeremy Magruder, Yale University |
| The Impact of Incentives on Learning HIV Status: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| By Rebecca Thornton |
| Presented by: Rebecca Thornton, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Nancy Qian, |
| Geography, Health, and Development: Evidence from Colombia |
| By Juan Mendoza and Andres Rosas |
| Presented by: Andres Rosas, public |
| Discussant: Louis Putterman, Brown University |
Session 7: Environment |
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| Session Chair: Luc J. Christiaensen, |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Coping With Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2001 |
| By Dean Yang |
| Presented by: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Discussant: Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Inst |
| A drop in the bucket? The impact of food assistance after the 1998 floods in Bangladesh |
| By Agnes R. Quisumbing |
| Presented by: Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Inst |
| Discussant: Yoo-Mi Chin, |
| Pollution Haven or Hythe? New Evidence from Mexico |
| By Andreas Waldkirch and Munisamy Gopinath |
| Presented by: Andreas Waldkirch, Colby College |
| Discussant: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| The Value of Statistical Life and the Economics of Landmine Clearance in Developing Countries |
| By John Gibson, Michael Cameron, Kent Helmers, Steven Lim, John Tressler, Kien Vaddanak |
| Presented by: John Gibson, Univ of Waikato |
| Discussant: Andreas Waldkirch, Colby College |
Session 8: Microcredit |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Foster, Brown |
| Date: September 23, 2005 |
| Time: 15:30 - 17:30 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Testing the Microfinance Promise: Evaluating Impacts of Consumer Credit Using Randomized Credit Supply Decisions |
| By Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
| Presented by: Jonathan Zinman, public |
| Discussant: Pamela Jakiela, |
| Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi |
| By Gautam Hazarika and Sudipta Sarangi |
| Presented by: Gautam Hazarika, The University of Texas at Brownsville |
| Discussant: Dean Karlan, Yale University |
| Microfinance Games |
| By Xavier Giné, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch |
| Presented by: Pamela Jakiela, |
| Discussant: Rajeev H. Dehejia, Columbia University |
| POOR BUT SOPHISTICATED: SAVINGS STRATEGIES IN THE DHAKA SLUMS |
| By Rajeev Dehejia, Heather Montgomery, Jonathan Morduch |
| Presented by: Rajeev H. Dehejia, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown |
Session 9: Household Effect on Education |
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| Session Chair: Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Quantity-Quality: The Positive Effect of Family Size on School Enrollment |
| By Nancy Qian |
| Presented by: Nancy Qian, |
| Discussant: Takashi Kurosaki, Institute of Economic Research |
| The Effect of Investment Credit on Children's Schooling: Evidence from Pakistan |
| By Nidhiya Menon |
| Presented by: Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University |
| Discussant: Ana Dammert, Syracuse University |
| Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes. Is the Effect Nature, Nurture, or Both? Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda. |
| By Damien de Walque |
| Presented by: Damien de Walque, |
| Discussant: T. Schultz, Yale University |
| Schooling, Wages and the Role of Unobserved Ability: the Case of Cebu |
| By YARASLAU ZAYATS |
| Presented by: Yaraslau Zayats, UNC - Chapel Hill |
| Discussant: John Tyler, Brown University |
Session 10: Health and Medicine |
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| Session Chair: Andrew Foster, Brown |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Classroom 114 |
| Returns to Health: Evidence from Exogenous Height Variation in Indonesia |
| By Sharon Maccini and Dean Yang |
| Presented by: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Discussant: Anna Aizer, Brown University |
| Money for Nothing: The Dire Straits of Medical Practice in Delhi |
| By Jishnu Das and Jeffrey Hammer |
| Presented by: Jishnu Das, private |
| Discussant: Anna Aizer, Brown University |
| Improving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change: Lessons from the SEECALINE program in Madagascar |
| By Emanuela Galasso, Jeffrey Yau |
| Presented by: Emanuela Galasso, |
| Discussant: Jishnu Das, private |
Session 11: Group-Based Credit |
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| Session Chair: Kaivan Munshi, Brown University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Can Kinship Improve Repayment? Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Group-Based Lending |
| By Natsuko Kiso |
| Presented by: Natsuko Kiso, Brown University |
| Discussant: Dean Karlan, Yale University |
| Mutual Savings and Ex-Ante Payments - Group Formation in Informal Insurance Arrangements |
| By Tessa Bold |
| Presented by: Tessa Bold, University of Oxford |
| Discussant: Natsuko Kiso, Brown University |
| Group versus Individual Liability Loans: A Field Experiment in the Philippines |
| By Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan |
| Presented by: Dean Karlan, Yale University |
| Discussant: Tessa Bold, University of Oxford |
| Degree, Dimensions, and Determinants of Self-segregation in Micro-credit Borrowing Groups |
| By Christian Ahlin |
| Presented by: Christian Ahlin, |
| Discussant: Jonathan Zinman, public |
Session 12: Political Corruption |
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| Session Chair: Frederico Finan, UC-Berkeley |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND PROVINCIAL SIZE |
| By M. Kadir Dogan & Ferhan Salman |
| Presented by: Ferhan Salman, The Central Bank of Turkey |
| Discussant: Vijayendra Rao, World Bank |
| Reelection Incentives and Political Corruption:Evidence from Brazil’s Municipal Audit Reports |
| By Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan |
| Presented by: Claudio Ferraz, University of California, Berkeley |
| Discussant: Pablo Suarez Becerra, |
| Listen To The Radio! Media and Corruption: Evidence from Madagascar |
| By N. Francken, B. Minten and J.F.M. Swinnen |
| Presented by: Nathalie Francken, Catholic University of Leuven |
| Discussant: Claudio Ferraz, University of California, Berkeley |
| Exposing Corrupt Politicians:The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes |
| By Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan |
| Presented by: Frederico Finan, UC-Berkeley |
| Discussant: Ruben Durante, |
Session 13: Growth |
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| Session Chair: Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Classroom 112 |
| Slavery, Institutional Development and Long-Run Growth in Africa |
| By Nathan Nunn |
| Presented by: Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia |
| Discussant: Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University |
| Inequality and the Dual Economy: Technology Adoption with Specific and General Skills |
| By Ashley Lester |
| Presented by: Ashley Lester, MIT |
| Discussant: Pham Van, University of Missouri |
| Cross Country Determinants of Vertical Integration |
| By Rocco Macchiavello |
| Presented by: rocco macchiavello, LSE - STICERD - PSE |
| Discussant: Pham Van, University of Missouri |
| Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption |
| By Tavneet Suri |
| Presented by: Tavneet Suri, Yale University |
| Discussant: Ashley Lester, MIT |
Session 14: Education |
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| Session Chair: Pamela Jakiela, |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Classroom 112 |
| Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow? The Rise of Affordable Private Schools in Pakistan |
| By Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja |
| Presented by: Asim Khwaja, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Hanan Jacoby, The World Bank |
| Endogenous Social Interaction Effects in School Participation in Rural Mexico |
| By Gustavo J. Bobonis and Frederico S. Finan |
| Presented by: Gustavo Bobonis, |
| Discussant: T. Schultz, Yale University |
| The Determinants of Educational Corruption in Higher Education: The Case of Ukraine |
| By Philip Shaw |
| Presented by: Philip Shaw, University of Connecticut |
| Discussant: Frederico Finan, UC-Berkeley |
Session 15: Inequality |
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| Session Chair: Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Inequality, Public Goods Provision and Development: A Political Economy Analysis |
| By Sripad Motiram and Jeffrey B. Nugent |
| Presented by: Sripad Motiram, Dalhousie University |
| Discussant: Phillip Garner, public |
| Income Envy, Inequality, and Economic Growth |
| By Azam Chaudhry and Phillip Garner |
| Presented by: Phillip Garner, public |
| Discussant: Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University |
| Inequality and Social Funds Allocations |
| By Maria Caridad Araujo, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Ozler |
| Presented by: Berk Ozler, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Latika Chaudhary, UCLA |
| Land Access, Relative Deprivation, and Civil Conflict in Nepal |
| By Karen Macours |
| Presented by: Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University |
| Discussant: Berk Ozler, The World Bank |
Session 16: Savings |
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| Session Chair: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Door-to-Door Deposits as a Commitment to Savings? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Philippines |
| By Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin |
| Presented by: Wesley Yin, private |
| Discussant: Anand Swamy, Williams College |
| Safety nets or insurance in the presence of poverty traps? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia |
| By Paulo Santos and Christopher B. Barrett |
| Presented by: Paulo Santos, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Olumide Taiwo, |
| The Rise and Fall of a Hindu Credit Rule: An Economic Analysis of Damdupat |
| By Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy |
| Presented by: Anand Swamy, Williams College |
| Discussant: Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University |
Session 17: Government |
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| Session Chair: Claudio Ferraz, University of California, Berkeley |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Classroom 114 |
| Democracy and Dictatorship: Comparing household innovation across the border of Benin and Togo |
| By Kelly M. Jones, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Erin O. Sills |
| Presented by: Kelly Jones, |
| Discussant: Daniel Mejia, Brown University and B. de la Republica |
| ARE OLIGARCHS PRODUCTIVE? THEORY AND EVIDENCE |
| By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Yegor Grygorenko |
| Presented by: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, U. of Michigan |
| Discussant: Rohini Pande, |
| Electoral Alliances as Political Outsourcing: Theory and Evidence from India |
| By Rajashri Chakrabarti, Joydeep Roy |
| Presented by: Rajashri Chakrabarti, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Ferhan Salman, The Central Bank of Turkey |
| Populist Policies in the Transition to Democracy |
| By Daniel Mejía and Carlos Esteban Posada |
| Presented by: Daniel Mejia, Brown University and B. de la Republica |
| Discussant: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, U. of Michigan |
Session 18: Vulnerability |
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| Session Chair: Xavier Gine, The World Bank |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| Negative Stereotypes and Willingness to Change Them: Testing Theories of Discrimination in South Africa |
| By Jorge M. Aguero |
| Presented by: Jorge Aguero, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Discussant: Nicholas Wilson, |
| Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay |
| By Laura Schechter |
| Presented by: Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Discussant: Nicholas Wilson, |
Session 19: Household Allocation |
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| Session Chair: Hanan Jacoby, The World Bank |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:45 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Understanding Pareto Inefficient Intrahousehold Allocations |
| By Richard Akresh |
| Presented by: Richard Akresh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Discussant: Yoo-Mi Chin, |
| Pension Income and the Well-being of Children and Grandchildren:New evidence from South Africa |
| By Amar Hamoudi and Duncan Thomas |
| Presented by: Amar Hamoudi, UCLA |
| Discussant: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Husbands, Wives and the Peculiar Economics of Household Public Goods and Bads |
| By Amanda J Felkey |
| Presented by: Amanda Felkey, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
| Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya |
| By John McPeak and Cheryl Doss |
| Presented by: Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
| Discussant: Richard Akresh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Session 20: Poverty |
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| Session Chair: David Newhouse, |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:45 |
| Location: Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge |
| Tracking Poverty in the Absence of Regular Comparable Household Budget Surveys - Case Evidence from Kenya |
| By David Stifel and Luc Christiaensen |
| Presented by: David Stifel, |
| Discussant: David Newhouse, |
| Identifying Asset Poverty Thresholds – New Methods with an application to Pakistan and Ethiopia |
| By Felix Naschold |
| Presented by: Felix Naschold, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Luc J. Christiaensen, |
| The Empirical Importance of Risk Induced Poverty Traps: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| By Stefan Dercon and Luc J. Christiaensen |
| Presented by: Luc J. Christiaensen, |
| Discussant: David Stifel, |
Session 21: Credit Constraints |
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| Session Chair: Paul Dower, New York University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:45 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| How Accurate are Reports of Credit Constraints? Reconciling Theory with Respondents' Claims in Bukidnon, Philippines |
| By Daniel O. Gilligan, Sarah Harrower, and Agnes Quisumbing |
| Presented by: Daniel Gilligan, International Food Policy Research Insti |
| Discussant: Siddharth Sharma, Yale University |
| Repay As You Earn |
| By Shamika Ravi |
| Presented by: Shamika Ravi, UNICEF |
| Discussant: Takuma Kunieda, |
| Competition and Credit Provision in Developing Countries |
| By Giovanni Serio |
| Presented by: Giovanni Serio, New York University |
| Discussant: Takuma Kunieda, |
| Signaling Credit-Worthiness: Land Titles, Banking Practices and Access to Formal Credit in Indonesia |
| By Paul Dower and Elizabeth Potamites |
| Presented by: Paul Dower, New York University |
| Discussant: Daniel Gilligan, International Food Policy Research Insti |
Session 22: Infrastructure |
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| Session Chair: John Giles, Michigan State University |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 13:45 - 15:45 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| Dams |
| By Rohini Pande and Esther Duflo |
| Presented by: Rohini Pande, |
| Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown |
| Railways, Institutions and Market Integration in British India |
| By Tahir Andrabi, Michael Kuehlwein |
| Presented by: Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College |
| Discussant: Anand Swamy, Williams College |
Session 23: Gender Bias |
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| Session Chair: Dean Yang, University of Michigan |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 16:15 - 18:15 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts |
| By Daniel L. Chen |
| Presented by: Daniel Chen, University of Chicago |
| Discussant: Ghazala Mansuri, The World Bank |
| Watta-Satta: Exchange Marriage and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan |
| By Hanan Jacoby and Ghazala Mansuri |
| Presented by: Ghazala Mansuri, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Mukesh Eswaran, |
| What Determines Female Autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh |
| By Siwan Anderson and Mukesh Eswaran |
| Presented by: Mukesh Eswaran, |
| Discussant: Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
Session 24: Distribution and Welfare |
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| Session Chair: Berk Ozler, The World Bank |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 16:15 - 18:15 |
| Location: Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge |
| Redistributive Pressures and Constrained Leadership |
| By Tanguy Bernard, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet |
| Presented by: Tanguy Bernard, public |
| Discussant: John Gibson, Univ of Waikato |
| Social Divisions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Colonial India |
| By Latika Chaudhary |
| Presented by: Latika Chaudhary, UCLA |
| Discussant: Sripad Motiram, Dalhousie University |
| Decentralization and State-Level Gains: An Empirical Analysis in India |
| By Kiran Gajwani |
| Presented by: Kiran Gajwani, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Alaka Holla, Brown University |
Session 25: Effects of Credit and Transfers |
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| Session Chair: Daniel Gilligan, International Food Policy Research Insti |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 16:15 - 18:15 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living Standards |
| By Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Marta Rubio |
| Presented by: Marta Rubio Codina, University of Toulouse |
| Discussant: Harounan Kazianga, Columbia University |
| Conditional transfers and living arrangements |
| By Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel |
| Presented by: Graciela Teruel, Universidad Iberoamericana/UCLA |
| Discussant: Tewodaj Mogues, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Informal Insurance and Human Capital Accumulation: Schooling Outcomes in Rural Burkina Faso |
| By Harounan Kazianga |
| Presented by: Harounan Kazianga, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Olumide Taiwo, |
| Shocks, Livestock Asset Dynamics and Social Capital in Ethiopia |
| By Tewodaj Mogues |
| Presented by: Tewodaj Mogues, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Discussant: Seth Gitter, |
Session 26: Economic Change and Well-Being |
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| Session Chair: Irma Clots-Figueras, LSE and STICERD |
| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 16:15 - 18:15 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Household Welfare In a Developing Country |
| By Ganesh Seshan |
| Presented by: Ganesh Seshan, University of Virginia |
| Discussant: Sharmistha Self, St. John's University |
| The growth of manufacturing in rural India : Why has initial regional wealth mattered ? |
| By Siddharth Sharma |
| Presented by: Siddharth Sharma, Yale University |
| Discussant: Sharmistha Self, St. John's University |
| Mahatma Gandhi and the Prisoner's Dilemma: Strategic Civil Disobedience and Great Britain's Great Loss of Empire in India |
| By Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky |
| Presented by: Chowdhury Irad Siddiky, University of Warwick, School of Law |
| Discussant: Quamrul Ashraf, |
Session 27: Mark Rosenzweig: International Migration and Global Development (Dinner and Keynote Speaker) |
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| Date: September 24, 2005 |
| Time: 18:45 - 21:30 |
| Location: Andrews Hall |
Session 28: Children and Gender Bias |
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| Session Chair: Gustavo Bobonis, |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Son Preference and Child Labor in Nepal: The Household Impact of Sending Girls to Work |
| By Gayatri B. Koolwal |
| Presented by: Gayatri Koolwal, Cornell University |
| Discussant: Ganesh Seshan, University of Virginia |
| Exogamy and Bias against Daughters in Health-care Provision: A Theory and Evidence from Two Northern States in India |
| By Sajal Lahiri and Sharmistha Self |
| Presented by: Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| Discussant: Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University |
| Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality? |
| By Alessandro Tarozzi and Aprajit Mahajan |
| Presented by: Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University |
| Discussant: Gayatri Koolwal, Cornell University |
Session 29: Labor/Wage |
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| Session Chair: Phillip Garner, public |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| Does labor flexibility affect firm performance? Evidence from Brazil |
| By ALMEIDA, RITA AND CARNEIRO, PEDRO |
| Presented by: Rita Almeida, private |
| Discussant: Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University |
| Quality Upgrading and Establishment Wage Policies: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data |
| By David S. Kaplan and Eric A. Verhoogen |
| Presented by: Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University |
| Discussant: Rita Almeida, private |
| The Effect of Vocational Training on Labor Market Outcomes |
| By Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches |
| Presented by: Cristian Pop-Eleches, |
| Discussant: Sheetal Sekhri, |
Session 30: Trade and Growth |
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| Session Chair: John Gibson, Univ of Waikato |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| Trade Growth Following AGOA |
| By Garth Frazer, Johannes Van Biesebroeck |
| Presented by: Garth Frazer, University of Toronto |
| Discussant: Petia Topalova, MIT |
| Learning-by-Doing, Learning-by-Exporting, and Productivity: Evidence from Colombia |
| By Ana Margarida Fernandes and Alberto Isgut |
| Presented by: Ana Fernandes, private |
| Discussant: Benjamin Olken, NBER |
| Wal-Mart as Catalyst to U.S.-China Trade: The Role of Technology Shocks and Increasing Returns |
| By Emek Basker and Pham Hoang Van |
| Presented by: Pham Van, University of Missouri |
| Discussant: Fidel Perez Sebastian, |
| The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth |
| By Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken |
| Presented by: Benjamin Olken, NBER |
| Discussant: Fidel Perez Sebastian, |
Session 31: Family and Migration |
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| Session Chair: Sonia Laszlo, McGill University |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Location: Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge |
| Elderly Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China |
| By John Giles & Ren Mu |
| Presented by: Ren Mu, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Adriana Camacho, Brown University |
| Moral Hazard and Costly Monitoring: The Case of Split Migrants in Kenya |
| By Joost de Laat |
| Presented by: Joost Delaat, |
| Discussant: Kaivan Munshi, Brown University |
| The Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Migration on Schooling |
| By Francisca M. Antman |
| Presented by: Francisca Antman, Stanford University |
| Discussant: Alfredo Cuecuecha, public |
| Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China |
| By Alan deBrauw and John Giles |
| Presented by: John Giles, Michigan State University |
| Discussant: Kaivan Munshi, Brown University |
Session 32: Family Planning |
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| Session Chair: Ana Dammert, Syracuse University |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle Lounge |
| Economic Role of Children and the Demand for Wives: Evidence from Burkina Faso |
| By Harounan Kazianga and Nistha Sinha |
| Presented by: Nistha Sinha, World Bank |
| Discussant: Amanda Felkey, Cornell University |
| Family Long Term Outcomes Related to the Family Planning Health Progrm in Matlab, Bangladesh |
| By Shareen Joshi and T. Paul Schultz |
| Presented by: Shareen Joshi, University of Chicago |
| Discussant: Claus Portner, University of Washington |
| Risk and Household Structure: Another Look at the Determinants of Fertility |
| By Claus C Portner |
| Presented by: Claus Portner, University of Washington |
| Discussant: Melissa Gonzalez-Brenes, |
Session 33: Agriculture |
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| Session Chair: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Classroom 116 |
| Spatial Integration of Rice Markets in Madagascar |
| By Christine Moser; Christopher B. Barrett; Bart Min |
| Presented by: Christine Moser, Western Michigan University |
| Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, |
| Labor Contracts, Incentives, and Food Security in Rural Myanmar |
| By Takashi Kurosaki |
| Presented by: Takashi Kurosaki, Institute of Economic Research |
| Discussant: Sonia Laszlo, McGill University |
| The effect of additional choices on measured risk preferences: An analysis of Peruvian farmers. |
| By Sonia Laszlo, Jim Engle-Warnick, Javier Escobal |
| Presented by: Sonia Laszlo, McGill University |
| Discussant: stefan klonner, public |
| Learning about Oneself: Technology Financing in Indian Small-Scale Fisheries |
| By Xavier Gine and Stefan Klonner |
| Presented by: stefan klonner, public |
| Discussant: Sheetal Sekhri, |
Session 34: Capital Finance |
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| Session Chair: Fidel Perez Sebastian, |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: Joukowsky Forum |
| Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Markets and Linkages. |
| By Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Selin Sayek |
| Presented by: Laura Alfaro, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Ahmed Mobarak, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? |
| By Shawn Cole |
| Presented by: Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School |
| Discussant: Ross Levine, Brown University |
| Returns to Capital and Financial Constraints |
| By Matthias Schündeln |
| Presented by: Matthias Schuendeln, Harvard University |
| Discussant: Shawn Cole, Harvard Business School |
| Do Multinational Corporations Seek Out Politically Connected Firms? Evidence from MNC Joint Venture Schemes in Indonesia |
| By Denni Puspa Purbasari and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak |
| Presented by: Ahmed Mobarak, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Discussant: Matthias Schuendeln, Harvard University |
Session 35: Migration |
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| Session Chair: John Giles, Michigan State University |
| Date: September 25, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 12:45 |
| Location: McKinney Conference Room |
| The Immigration of Educated Mexicans: The Role of Informal Social Insurance and Migration Costs |
| By Alfredo Cuecuecha |
| Presented by: Alfredo Cuecuecha, public |
| Discussant: Hyejin Ku, Cornell University |
| How Important is Selection in Estimating the Income Gains from Migration? |
| By David J. McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman |
| Presented by: David McKenzie, The World Bank |
| Discussant: Alan de Brauw, |
| Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes? |
| By Mariapia Mendola |
| Presented by: Mariapia Mendola, University of Milan |
| Discussant: John Giles, Michigan State University |
| Migration and Remittances: A New Approach with Endogenous Exchange Rates and the Possibility of Multiple Equilibria |
| By Hyejin Ku |
| Presented by: Hyejin Ku, Cornell University |
| Discussant: David McKenzie, The World Bank |