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November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1A: Intrahousehold Allocation | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1B: Fertility | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1C: Firms | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1D: Youth employment | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1E: Early Childhood Development in Developing Countries | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1F: Agriculture, Environment, and Climate Change | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1G: Political Economy | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1H: Economic geography | 4 |
November 5, 2021
10:00-12:00 | 1I: History, Culture, and Insitutions | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2A: Gender, Education, and Finance | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2B: Water, Sanitation, and Heatlh | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2C: Macroeconomics | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2E: Behavioural issues in human capital | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2F: Environment | 3 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2G: Elections | 4 |
November 5, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 2H: Finance | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3A: Marriage | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3B: Pollution and Health | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3C: Urban Economics | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3D: Political Economy and International Economics | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3E: Responses to Education Interventions | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3F: Small-Scale Agriculture | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3G: Special Interests and Corruption | 4 |
November 5, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 3H: Microfinance | 4 |
November 6, 2021
9:00-10:15 | 4 Keynote Lecture: The Cultural Evolution of Psychology and Institutions | 1 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4A: Consequences of Violence | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4B: Health care delivery | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4C: Macro-development | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4D: Migration | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4E: Schools and Human Capital Formation | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4F: Agricultural Economics | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4G: State Institutions | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4H: Behavior and Learning | 4 |
November 6, 2021
10:30-12:30 | 4I: Institutions and Culture | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5A: Gender and Family Economics | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5B: COVID | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5C: Microfoundations of Structural Transformation | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5D: Labour and Development | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5E: School Choice and Peer Effects | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5G: Clientelism | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5H: Poverty measurement | 4 |
November 6, 2021
13:30-15:30 | 5I: History and Development | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6A: Intimate Partner Violence | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6B: Food & Nutrition | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6C: Entrepreneurship | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6D: Trade and labour markets | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6E: Human capital | 4 |
November 6, 2021
16:00-18:00 | 6I: Social Integration | 3 |
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Session: 1A: Intrahousehold Allocation
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Andrew D. Foster, Brown University |
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| Women's Autonomy, Social Networks, and Access to Family Planning: Experimental Evidence from India |
| presented by: S Anukriti, The World Bank |
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| Are Cash Transfers Effective at Empowering Mothers? A Structural Evaluation of Mexico's Oportunidades |
| presented by: Andrea Flores, Washington University in St. Louis |
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| The Effect of Violent Crime on Intra-household Resource Allocation and Bargaining Power |
| presented by: Maria Hernandez-de-Benito, University of Alicante |
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| Do Property Rights Affect the Efficiency and Intrahousehold Labor Allocations of Rural Ethiopian Households? |
| presented by: Caitlin Kieran, University of California Davis |
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Session: 1B: Fertility
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Jessica Cohen, Harvard University |
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| The Media or the Message? Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Modern Contraception Uptake in Burkina Faso |
| presented by: Rachel Glennerster, Chief Economist, DFiD |
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| Agricultural Technological Change, Female Earnings, and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil |
| presented by: Vivek Moorthy, University of Notre Dame |
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| Can improved counseling increase willingness to pay for modern contraceptives? |
| presented by: Luca Parisotto, The World Bank |
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| Exploring User-Centered Counseling in Contraceptive Decision-Making: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban Malawi |
| presented by: Kexin Zhang, Boston University |
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Session: 1C: Firms
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Kevin Donovan, Yale University |
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| Group Identity and Agency Frictions: Evidence using Big Data |
| presented by: Jitendra Aswani, Fordham University |
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| Unreliable Firms: Evidence from Rwanda |
| presented by: Vishan Nigam, MIT |
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| Worker Mobility and Domestic Production Networks |
| presented by: Cian Ruane, International Monetary Fund |
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| The cultural origins of family firms |
| presented by: Jian Xie, University of Warwick |
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Session: 1D: Youth employment
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Caroline Theoharides, Amherst College |
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| Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico |
| presented by: Martin Abel, Middlebury College |
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| No Parent Present: Evidence on Child Fostering in Sub-Saharan Africa from 30 years of Household Surveys and Weather Shocks |
| presented by: Tamara McGavock, Grinnell College |
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| Seasonality, Academic Calendar and School Drop-outs in Developing Countries |
| presented by: Abu Shonchoy, Florida International University |
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| The Effect of Microinsurance on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia |
| presented by: Hyuk Son, Cornell University |
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Session: 1E: Early Childhood Development in Developing Countries
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Bilge Erten, Northeastern University |
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| Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China |
| presented by: Xi Chen, Yale University |
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| Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale |
| presented by: Akib Khan, Uppsala University |
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| Family Planning Services and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi |
| presented by: Daniel Maggio, Cornell University |
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| Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees |
| presented by: Asad Islam, Monash University |
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Session: 1F: Agriculture, Environment, and Climate Change
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University |
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| Export crop price stabilization, land use change, and forest loss: evidence from Ghana |
| presented by: Kwabena Krah, UIUC |
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| Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture |
| presented by: Jacob Moscona, Harvard and J-PAL |
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| Temperature, effort, and achievement: Evidence from a large-scale standardized exam in Brazil |
| presented by: Ana Paula Melo, Howard University |
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| Learning is Caring: Soil Heterogeneity, Social Learning and the Formation of Close-knit Communities |
| presented by: Itzchak Raz, Hebrew University |
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Session: 1G: Political Economy
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Siddharth George, Boston University |
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| Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector: The Case of School Principals |
| presented by: Mounu Prem, Universidad del Rosario |
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| A tale of gold and blood: The unintended consequences of market regulation on local violence |
| presented by: Rafael Pucci, Climate Policy Initiative - PUC Rio |
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| Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa |
| presented by: Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard University |
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| Got (Clean) Milk? Governance, Incentives, and Collective Action in Indian Dairy Cooperatives |
| presented by: Ashish Shenoy, UC Davis |
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Session: 1H: Economic geography
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University |
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| The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India |
| presented by: Alison Campion, Development Data Lab |
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| Road Endpoints and City Sizes |
| presented by: Bruno Barsanetti, Fundacao Getulio Vargas |
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| Climate Change and Migration: the case of Africa |
| presented by: Bruno Conte, Università di Bologna |
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| Endogenous Spatial Production Networks: Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity |
| presented by: Piyush Panigrahi, Yale University |
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Session: 1I: History, Culture, and Insitutions
November 5, 2021 10:00 to 12:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University |
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| Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico |
| presented by: Francisco Garfias, University of California, San Diego |
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| The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Beliefs, Social Unrest, and Long-Run Economic Development |
| presented by: Cesar Huaroto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
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| Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change and Conflict in Africa |
| presented by: Eoin McGuirk, Tufts University |
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| Frontier planters, immigrants, and the abolition of slavery in Brazil |
| presented by: François Seyler, Université Laval |
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Session: 2A: Gender, Education, and Finance
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College |
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| Gendered Mobile Banking to Expand Women’s Financial Inclusion: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique |
| presented by: Margaret McConnell, Harvard University |
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| Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl's Lives with Bicycles |
| presented by: Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut |
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| Influencing youths' aspirations and gender attitudes through role models: Evidence from Somali schools |
| presented by: Danila Serra, Texas A&M University |
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| Access to Finance and Women’s Employment: Experimental Evidence from Rural India |
| presented by: Vaishnavi Surendra, University of California Berkeley |
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Session: 2B: Water, Sanitation, and Heatlh
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Namrata Kala, MIT |
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| Gender Disparities in the Prevalence of Undernutrition in India: The Unexplored Effects of Drinking Contaminated Water |
| presented by: Khushboo Aggarwal, Rishihood University |
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| Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India |
| presented by: Alex Armand, Nova School of Business and Economics, CEPR, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
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| The Political Consequences of Resource Scarcity: Targeted Spending in a Water-Stressed Democracy |
| presented by: Meera Mahadevan, University of California, Irvine |
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| Unintended Consequences of Sanitation: Externalities on Water Quality and Health in India |
| presented by: Kazuki Motohashi, Tufts University |
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Session: 2C: Macroeconomics
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Pascual Restrepo, BU |
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| Credit Creation, Credit Destruction, and Credit Reallocation: Evidence from India |
| presented by: Seema Saini, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
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| Financial Development, Firm Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Divergence in Europe |
| presented by: Xiaomei Sui, |
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| Is Capital Reallocation Really Procyclical? |
| presented by: Lingyan Yang, Arizona State University |
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| Simulating Endogenous Global Automation |
| presented by: Victor Ye, Boston University |
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Session: 2E: Behavioural issues in human capital
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Gautam Rao, Harvard University |
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| The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India* |
| presented by: Manuela Angelucci, University of Texas |
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| Healthy, nudged, and wise: Experimental evidence on the role of cost reminders in healthy decision-making |
| presented by: Adnan Fakir, University of Western Australia |
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| Non-Cognitive Skills Development and School-BasedViolence Reduction in Central America |
| presented by: Claudia Martinez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
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| Cognitive Limitation in Complex Decision-Making: Evidence from Centralized College Admission |
| presented by: Ao Wang, UC Berkeley |
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Session: 2F: Environment
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Nicholas Ryan, Yale |
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| The Presource Curse? Anticipation, Disappointment, and Governance after Oil Discoveries |
| presented by: Erik Katovich, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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| Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa |
| presented by: Sveta Milusheva, World Bank |
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| Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China |
| presented by: Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago |
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Session: 2G: Elections
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Ajay Shenoy, University of California Santa Cruz |
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| Social Media Echo Chambers: Experimental Evidence from an Indian Election |
| presented by: Kevin Carney, Harvard University |
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| Watching the Vote: Are Transparency Technologies Good for (Non-)Democracy? |
| presented by: Anastasiia Faikina, UC San Diego |
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| Political Campaign Attacks: Theory and Evidence |
| presented by: Marcos Nakaguma, Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV |
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| Ignorance is Not Bliss: Experimental Evidence on Voter Information and Political Selection in India |
| presented by: Yusuf Neggers, University of Michigan |
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Session: 2H: Finance
November 5, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College |
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| Government-owned Banks and Development: on Unintended Consequences of Bank Privatizations. |
| presented by: Lucas Mariani, Economic Research Southern Africa |
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| Welfare Impacts of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria |
| presented by: Suraj R Nair, UC Berkeley |
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| Bank Deposit Franchise, Interest Rate Risk, and Default Risk |
| presented by: Akshat Singh, University of Oxford |
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| Branch Location Strategies and Financial Service Access in Thai Banking |
| presented by: Christoph Walsh, Tilburg University |
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Session: 3A: Marriage
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Rachel Brule, Boston University |
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| Terms of Engagement: Migration, Dowry, and Love in Indian Marriages |
| presented by: Rossella Calvi, Rice University |
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| Colonial Institutions, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Evidence from Mozambique |
| presented by: Jon Denton-Schneider, University of Michigan |
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| Polygyny, Timing of Marriage and Economic Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| presented by: Augustin Tapsoba, Toulouse School of Economics |
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| Does early marriage shape gender role attitudes? Evidence from a schooling reform in China |
| presented by: Huali Wu, ESSEC Business School |
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Session: 3B: Pollution and Health
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Randall Ellis, Boston University |
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| Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh |
| presented by: Reshmaan Hussam, Harvard Business School |
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| Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid it or Adapt in Place? |
| presented by: Jeanne Sorin, University of Chicago |
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| Air Pollution, Traffic, and Retail Business |
| presented by: Xiangrui Wang, Renmin University of China |
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| Unequal Households or Communities? Decomposing the Inequality in Nutritional Status in South Asia |
| presented by: Caitlin Brown, University of Manchester |
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Session: 3C: Urban Economics
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University |
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| Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform |
| presented by: Santosh Anagol, Wharton |
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| The Other Side of the Fence: Existing Obesity Rates & Predatory Location Choice of Fast Food Chain Franchisees |
| presented by: Ryka Chopra, William Hopkins Junior High School |
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| Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| presented by: Valentin Lindlacher, ifo Institute Munich |
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| How Do Consumers Respond to Fuel Standard Regulation: Evidence from Gas Stations at City Boundaries |
| presented by: Liyang Zhou, University of Pittsburgh |
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Session: 3D: Political Economy and International Economics
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Kevin Gallagher, Boston University |
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| Filling the decency gap? Donors' reaction to the US policy on international family planning aid |
| presented by: Nathalie Ferrière, Sciences Po Aix and Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, AMSE, Marseille, France |
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| China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants, Economic Effects |
| presented by: Joris Mueller, Northwestern University |
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| Malaria and Chinese Economic Activities in Africa |
| presented by: Song Yuan, The University of Warwick |
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| I'll pay you later: Relational Contracts in the Oil Industry |
| presented by: Gerhard Toews, New Economic School |
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Session: 3E: Responses to Education Interventions
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Marc Rockmore, US Government |
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| School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low- Tech” in a Pandemic |
| presented by: Noam Angrist, Oxford |
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| Perceptions, Information Interventions and Graduation: Experimental Evidence from High-schools in Argentina |
| presented by: Carolina Lopez, Brown University |
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| Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions |
| presented by: Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
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| Supply-side Responses to Targeted Vouchers |
| presented by: Cristian Sanchez, ITAM |
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Session: 3F: Small-Scale Agriculture
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Jenny Aker, Tufts University |
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| Valuation of Public Information: Bidding for Soil Fertility Testing in Malawi |
| presented by: Julia Berazneva, Middlebury College |
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| Returns to Quality in Rural Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Wheat Markets in Ethiopia |
| presented by: Jeremy Do Nascimento Miguel, University of Bordeaux |
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| Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture |
| presented by: Jonathan Malacarne, University of Maine |
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| The curse of good soil? Land fertility, roads, and rural poverty in Africa |
| presented by: Sabrin Beg, university of delaware |
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Session: 3G: Special Interests and Corruption
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut |
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| The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake |
| presented by: Yiming Cao, Boston University |
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| Cutting Special Interests by the Roots: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
| presented by: Ricardo Dahis, PUC-Rio |
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| Hidden moral costs of control: Field evidence from performance appraisals in the public sector |
| presented by: Jan Priebe, German Institute of Global and Area Studies |
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| Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Forbearance, and Deforestation in Colombia |
| presented by: David Vargas, Inter-american Development Bank |
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Session: 3H: Microfinance
November 5, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Ben Roth, Harvard Business School |
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| Rural Banks Can Reduce Poverty: Experimental Evidence from 870 Indian Villages |
| presented by: Giorgia Barboni, University of Warwick |
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| Microcredit and Informal Risk Sharing: Experimental Evidence from the Village Banking Program in China |
| presented by: Shu Cai, Jinan University |
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| Microequity and Mutuality: Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment |
| presented by: Muhammad Meki, University of Oxford |
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| The Impact of Financial Education and Spill-Over Effects: Experimental Evidence from Uganda |
| presented by: Yuanwei Xu, Leibniz University Hannover |
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Session: 4 Keynote Lecture: The Cultural Evolution of Psychology and Institutions
November 6, 2021 9:00 to 10:15 |
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| Session Chair:
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University |
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| The Cultural Evolution of Psychology and Institutions |
| presented by: Joseph Henrich, Harvard University |
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Discussant: Nathan Nunn, Harvard University
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Session: 4A: Consequences of Violence
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University |
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| Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay |
| presented by: Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia |
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| Reparations as Development: Evidence from the Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict |
| presented by: Arlen Guarin Galeano, Universidad de California Berkeley |
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| Forgone Investment: Civil Conflict and Agricultural Credit in Colombia |
| presented by: Nicolás de Roux, Universidad de los Andes |
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| Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments |
| presented by: Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, |
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Session: 4B: Health care delivery
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Susan Godlonton, Williams College |
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| Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India |
| presented by: Radhika Jain, Stanford University |
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| Information, Loss Framing, and Spillovers in Pay-for-Performance Contracts: Evidence from Nigerian Health Workers |
| presented by: Eeshani Kandpal, The World Bank |
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| Why is the Vaccination Rate Low in India? |
| presented by: Pramod Kumar Sur, Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI) |
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| Procurement Institutions and Essential Drug Supply in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| presented by: Lucy Xiaolu Wang, UMass Amherst; Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition |
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Session: 4C: Macro-development
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Cory Smith, University of Maryland |
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| Entry Deregulation, Market Turnover, and Efficiency: China’s Business Registration Reform |
| presented by: Luming Chen, Cornell University |
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| The Value of Trademarks: Micro Evidence from Chinese Exports to Africa |
| presented by: Yusuke Kuroishi, Hitotsubashi University |
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| The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973 |
| presented by: Munseob Lee, University of California San Diego |
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| Financial Development, Firm Growth, and Aggregate Productivity Divergence in Europe |
| presented by: Xiaomei Sui, University of Rochester |
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Session: 4D: Migration
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Kaivan Munshi, Yale University |
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| The impact of return migration on school-work tradeoff and labor outcomes of adolescents |
| presented by: Avinandan Chakraborty, University of New Mexico |
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| Urban Labor Supply Responses to Rural Drought Shocks on Rideshare Platforms |
| presented by: Aleksandr Michuda, Cornell University |
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| Unpacking the political impact of low-skilled immigration |
| presented by: Wagner Oliveira, FGV |
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| Life Out of the Shadows: Impacts of Amnesty Programs on Migrant’s Life |
| presented by: Sandra Rozo, USC, Marshall School of Business |
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Session: 4E: Schools and Human Capital Formation
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Silvia Prina, Northeastern University |
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| Mind the Gap: Schooling, Informality and Fiscal Externalities in Nepal |
| presented by: Bhanu Gupta, Ashoka University |
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| Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education |
| presented by: Naureen Karachiwalla, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
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| Public School Quality and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Model Schools in India |
| presented by: Naveen Kumar, University of California San Diego |
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| Centrality-Based Spillover Effect |
| presented by: Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton |
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Session: 4F: Agricultural Economics
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Tavneet Suri, MIT |
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| Watering the Seeds of the Rural Economy:Impact of Tube-well Irrigation in India |
| presented by: Andre Butler, University of Edinburgh |
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| Two Heads are Better than One: Couples' Training, Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire |
| presented by: Aletheia Donald, The World Bank |
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| Correcting False Beliefs |
| presented by: Annemie Maertens, University of Sussex |
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| Impact of Market Information on Cashew Producers in Guinea-Bissau |
| presented by: Giulio Schinaia, University of Oxford |
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Session: 4G: State Institutions
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia |
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| Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC |
| presented by: Augustin Bergeron, Stanford University |
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| Formality Costs, Registration and Development of Microentrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil |
| presented by: Roberto Hsu Rocha, UC Berkeley |
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| Do Contributory Pension Programs Crowd Out Labor Supply in Developing Countries? Evidence from Rural China |
| presented by: Plamen Nikolov, State University of New York (at Binghamton) & IZA |
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| Production Responses from the Decentralized Adoption of a Value Added Tax in India |
| presented by: Laura Zimmermann, University of Georgia |
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Session: 4H: Behavior and Learning
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Linh Tô, Boston University |
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| Imperfect information and learning: Evidence from cotton cultivation in Pakistan |
| presented by: Amal Ahmad, University of Gottingen |
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| Poor but Working Hard for the Family |
| presented by: Imran Aziz, Yorkville University |
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| Risk Preference Adaptation to Climate Change |
| presented by: Remy Levin, University of Connecticut |
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| Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental Evidence of Anchoring in Procurement Auctions |
| presented by: Pallavi Shukla, Johns Hopkins University |
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Session: 4I: Institutions and Culture
November 6, 2021 10:30 to 12:30 |
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| Session Chair:
James Feigenbaum, Boston University |
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| Religious Divisions, Production Technology and Firm Productivity: Experimental Evidence from India |
| presented by: Arkadev Ghosh, University of British Columbia |
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| Political Reservations as Term-Limits |
| presented by: Nishtha Kochhar, Georgetown University |
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| Religious Media, Conversion and its Socio-Economic Consequences: The Rise of Pentecostals in Brazil |
| presented by: Marcela Mello, Brown University |
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| The Political Scar of Epidemics |
| presented by: Orkun Saka, City, University of London & LSE |
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Session: 5A: Gender and Family Economics
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Frank Schilbach, MIT |
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| The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women's Work: Evidence from India |
| presented by: Madhulika Khanna, Georgetown University |
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| Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior |
| presented by: Kanika Mahajan, Ashoka University |
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| Learning in the Household |
| presented by: John Conlon, Harvard University |
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| Globalization and Female Outcomes: Evidence from China |
| presented by: Xianqiang Zou, Renmin University of China |
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Session: 5B: COVID
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
John Hoddinott, Cornell University |
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| Emergency Cash Transfers for Informal Workers: Impact Evidence from Mexico |
| presented by: Ana Canedo, The University of Texas at Austin |
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| Telementoring and homeschooling during school closures: A randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh |
| presented by: Abu Siddique, Technical University of Munich |
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| Early Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Children in Rural Bangladesh |
| presented by: Momoe Makino, Institute of Developing Economies |
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| The Gendered Impact of Covid-19 on Young Workers: Evidence from the Ugandan Shecession |
| presented by: Sara Spaziani, Brown University |
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Session: 5C: Microfoundations of Structural Transformation
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Steven Block, Tufts University |
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| The Impact of Drought on Structural Transformation in India |
| presented by: Sayahnika Basu, University of California, San Diego |
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| Poverty Traps, Structural Transformation, and Rural Land Concentration in India |
| presented by: Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California San Diego |
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| Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Economic Development |
| presented by: Gaurav Chiplunkar, University of Virginia |
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| Commodity Booms and Structural Transformation: The Role of Input Use and Land Inequality |
| presented by: Andrei Laskievic, São Paulo School of Economics-FGV |
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Session: 5D: Labour and Development
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Nancy Chau, Cornell University |
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| Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand |
| presented by: Lukas Hensel, Peking University |
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| Do Part-time Jobs Attract Less Productive Workers? |
| presented by: Hyunseob Kim, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
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| Expect the Unexpected: Does Social Assistance Disincentivise Employment, Job Formality, and Mobility? |
| presented by: Dyah Pritadrajati, Australian National University |
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| AI, firms and wages: Evidence from India |
| presented by: Alexander Copestake, University of Oxford |
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Session: 5E: School Choice and Peer Effects
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Emily Beam, University of Vermont |
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| Strategic Decisions have “Major” Consequences: Gender Differences in College Major Choices |
| presented by: Catalina Franco, Norwegian School of Economics |
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| An Aspiring Friend Is a Friend Indeed: School Peers and College Aspirations in Brazil |
| presented by: Jessica Gagete-Miranda, Bocconi University |
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| Long-term outcomes of affirmative action - Evidence from a selective law school in Brazil |
| presented by: Ana Trindade Ribeiro, Stanford University |
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| The Effects of College Desegregation on Academic Achievement and Students’ Social Interactions: Evidence from Turnstile Data |
| presented by: Tatiana Velasco-Rodriguez, Columbia University |
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Session: 5G: Clientelism
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Jaya Wen, Harvard Business School |
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| Corruption as an informal fiscal system |
| presented by: Shan Aman-Rana, University of Virginia |
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| Politics never end: Patronage Effects of Increased Transparency |
| presented by: Mariella Gonzales, University of Chicago |
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| Infrastructure for Votes? Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Mexico |
| presented by: Wayne Sandholtz, Nova School of Business and Economics |
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| The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine |
| presented by: Ajay Shenoy, University of California Santa Cruz |
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Session: 5H: Poverty measurement
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Christopher Barrett, Cornell University |
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| The potential and limitations of big data in development economics: The use of cell phone data for the targeting and impact evaluation of a cash transfer program in Haiti |
| presented by: Oscar Barriga Cabanillas, UC Davis |
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| Long-term Economic Wellbeing After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami |
| presented by: Ralph Lawton, Harvard University |
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| Small Area Estimation of Monetary Poverty in Mexico using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning |
| presented by: David Newhouse, World Bank Group |
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| How much do our neighbors really know?: The Limits of Community-based Targeting |
| presented by: Carly Trachtman, University of California, Berkeley |
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Session: 5I: History and Development
November 6, 2021 13:30 to 15:30 |
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| Session Chair:
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University |
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| Schools, Language, and Nations: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in France |
| presented by: Guillaume Blanc, Brown University |
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| Overkill, Extinction and the Neolithic Revolution |
| presented by: Motohiro Kumagai, Brown University |
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| Beasts of Burden, Trade, and Hierarchy: The Long Shadow of Domestication |
| presented by: Andreas Link, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
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| Delegating Governmental Authority to Private Actors: Lordships, State Capacity and Development |
| presented by: Daniel Oto-Peralías, Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
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Session: 6A: Intimate Partner Violence
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Arnab Basu, Cornell University |
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| Trade-offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia |
| presented by: Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College |
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| Mining and Women's Agency: Evidence on Acceptance of Domestic Violence and Shared Decision-Making in India |
| presented by: Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University |
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| Reducing Intimate Partner Violence: A Randomized Evaluation of a Multifaceted Female Empowerment Program in urban Liberia |
| presented by: David Sungho Park, University of California, Santa Cruz |
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| Conditional Cash Transfers and Gender Based Violence – Does the Type of Violence Matter? |
| presented by: Abhilasha Sahay, World Bank |
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Session: 6B: Food & Nutrition
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
William Masters, Tufts University |
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| The Psychological Toll of Food Insecurity |
| presented by: Jeffrey Bloem, USDA |
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| The Effects of Universal Free Lunch Provision on Student Achievement: Evidence from South Korea |
| presented by: Yoonjung Kim, University of California Irvine |
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| The Effects of Hunger on Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Ethiopia |
| presented by: Seollee Park, Harvard University |
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| Cash transfers and adolescent nutrition outcomes: Evidence from the Child Support Grant in South Africa |
| presented by: Kritika Sen, University of New Mexico |
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Session: 6C: Entrepreneurship
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Daniel Bjorkegren, Brown University |
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| Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills |
| presented by: Laura Chioda, University of California, Berkeley |
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| Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China |
| presented by: Ruixue Jia, UCSD |
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| Caste, Courts and Business |
| presented by: Anirban Mukherjee, University of Calcutta |
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| Surviving Competition: Neighborhood Shops vs. Convenience Chains |
| presented by: Miguel Talamas Marcos, Kellogg, Northwestern |
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Session: 6D: Trade and labour markets
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Joaquin Blaum, Boston University |
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| Labour market adjustment to changes in export and import trade policy: Evidence from Vietnam |
| presented by: Ramisha Asghar, Queen's University |
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| Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions |
| presented by: Roberto Nisticò, University of Naples Federico II |
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| Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education |
| presented by: Kevin Shih, Queens College |
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| Trade Shocks and Child Labor: Evidence from Brazil |
| presented by: Arthur Viaro, Sao Paulo School of Economics |
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Session: 6E: Human capital
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University |
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| Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice: Phone Calls to Encourage Home Reading with Children in Kenya |
| presented by: Anja Sautmann, World Bank |
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| Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities |
| presented by: Esther Gehrke, Wageningen University |
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| Mobile Internet Has No Impact on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Brazil |
| presented by: Lisa Ho, MIT |
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| Adjusting to Automation? Human Capital in the Age of Robots |
| presented by: Wilman Iglesias Pinedo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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Session: 6I: Social Integration
November 6, 2021 16:00 to 18:00 |
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| Session Chair:
Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth College |
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| Inter-group interaction and attitudes to migrants |
| presented by: Ivar Kolstad, Norwegian School of Economics |
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| What Determines Online Charitable Giving to Pandemic Victims? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Choice Overload & the Deserving-ness of Beneficiaries |
| presented by: Gedeon Lim, The University of Hong Kong |
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| Proximity and the Formation of Diverse Social Networks: Theory and Evidence |
| presented by: Roman Andres Zarate, University of Toronto |