DETAILED SCHEDULE: NEUDC 2014 at BOSTON UNIVERSITYsites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/09/NEUDC-2014-detailed-schedule-draft.pdf · Learning, Hygiene, and Traditional Medicine Daniel Bennett,

8:00 - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

Location:

9:00 - 10:40 AM SECTION 1

SESSION 1: HEALTH: INFORMATION and LEARNING

Chair:

Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants

Learning, Hygiene, and Traditional Medicine Daniel Bennett, University of Chicago Keskin

The Impact of Packaging and Messaging on Adherence to Malaria Treatment: Evidence

from a Randomized Controlled Trial in UgandaJessica Cohen, Harvard University Serneels

Water Quality Awareness and Infant Health: The Role of Breastfeeding

Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College; Gauri Shastry,

Wellesley College; Helen Willis, Wellesley

College

Bennett

Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from

malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Andrew Dillon, Michigan State University; Jed

Friedman, The World Bank; Pieter Serneels,

University of East Anglia

Cohen

SESSION 2: SPATIAL LABOR MISALLOCATION

Chair:

Location: B


Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development

Samuel Bazzi, Boston University; Arya Gaduh,

University of Arkansas; Alexander Rothenberg,

RAND Corporation; Maisy Wong, University of

Pennsylvania

Imbert

Agricultural Productivity, Factor Reallocation, and Industrial Production in the Short Run:

Evidence from India

Jonathan Colmer, London School of

EconomicsFernando

Shackled to the Soil: Inherited Wealth and Labor Misallocation in Rural India A. Nilesh Fernando, Harvard University Gaduh

Short Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from IndiaClément Imbert, Oxford University; John

Papp, Princeton University Colmer

SESSION 3: ECONOMIC GROWTH and PRODUCTIVITY

Chair:

Location: C


Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India Mariaflavia Harari, MIT Porzio

Agricultural Reforms and 'Growth Miracles': Evidence From China Sam Marden, London School of Economics Novosad

Digging for Development: Mining Booms and Local Economic Development in IndiaSamuel Asher, Oxford University; Paul

Novosad, Dartmouth College Marden

Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Lessons From U.S. Immigrants

David Lagakos, University of California, San

Diego; Benjamin Moll, Princeton University;

Tommaso Porzio, Yale University; Nancy

Qian, Yale University; Todd Schoellman,

Arizona State University

Harari

SESSION 4: CAUSES of CONFLICT

Chair:

Location: D


Can Workfare Programs Moderate Violence? Evidence from India Thiemo Fetzer, London School of Economics Rogall

Land Tenure, Price Shocks and Insurgency: Evidence from Peru Jenny Guardado R., University of Chicago Zimmermann

Armed Groups, Civilians and Muddy Roads: The Conduct of Political Mass MurderAndrea Guariso, LICOS - KU Leuven; Thorsten

Rogall, IIES, Stockholm Fetzer

Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of DevelopmentGaurav Khanna, University of Michigan; Laura

Zimmermann, University of Michigan Guardado R.

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SESSION 5: CORRUPTION and POLITICAL CAPTURE

Chair:

Location: E


Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control

Karna Basu Kaushik Basu, The World Bank

and Cornell University; Tito Cordella, The

World Bank

Gulzar

On the Origins of Political Machines: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan Saad Gulzar, New York University Basu

Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in BrazilStephan Litschig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra;

Yves Zamboni, Controladoria-Geral da União Pomeranz

Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in

Chile

Maria Paula Gerardino, Inter-American

Development Bank; Stephan Litschig,

Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Dina Pomeranz,

Harvard University

Litschig

SESSION 6: FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT, and OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE

Chair:

Location: F


Does Formality Improve Firm Performance: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in MexicoGabriela Aparicio, The George Washington

UniversityYoung

Financial development and occupational choice: Evidence from IndiaRajeev Dehejia, New York University; Nandini

Gupta, Indiana University Toth

Experience Does Matter: Managerial Capital and the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Russell Toth, The University of Sydney Gupta

The Effect of Formal Banking on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from a Regression

Discontinuity Analysis in IndiaNathaniel Young, Boston University Aparicio

SESSION 7: INEQUALITY, POVERTY, and INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY

Chair:

Location: G


Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of

Wealth

Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan; Joseph

Ferrie, Northwestern UniversityJia

Social Mobility and Revolution: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service

Exam System

Ruixue Jia, University of California, San

DiegoBleakley

Parental education and child health: Evidence from an education reform in China Samantha Rawlings, University of Reading Sun

Are the children of uneducated farmers doubly doomed? Farm, non-farm and

intergenerational educational mobility in rural China

M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy Dialogue

at Columbia University; Yan Sun, The World

Bank

Rawlings

10:40 - 11:00 AM BREAK

11:00 - 12:40 PM SECTION 2

SESSION 8: MICROFINANCE

Chair:

Location: A


Microfinance institutions as a platform for global health delivery: Evidence from a cluster-

randomized pilot programAaron Baum Jamison

Does Microfinance Foster Business Growth? The Importance of Entrepreneurial

Heterogeneity

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT; Emily Breza, Columbia

Business School; Esther Duflo, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology; Cynthia Kinnan,

Northwestern University

Osman

The returns to cash and microenterprise support among the ultra-poor: A field experiment

Christopher Blattman, Columbia University; Eric

Green, Duke University; Julian Jamison,

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;

Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee

Baum

Follow the Money not the Cash: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment

Responses to a Liquidity Shock

Dean Karlan, Yale University; Adam Osman,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

Breza

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SESSION 9: MIGRATION: MICRO and MACRO PERSPECTIVES

Chair:

Location: B


Time Machines

Douglas Gollin, Oxford University; Martina

Kirchberger, University of Oxford; David

Lagakos, University of California, San Diego

Larreguy

Arbesu

Migration Choice under Risk and Liquidity ConstraintsMarieke Kleemans, University of California,

BerkeleyKirchberger

Taking One for the Team: Shocks at Destination and Household's Supply of Migrant

Gustavo Fajardo, CEMFI; Emilio Gutierrez,

Instituto Tecnológico Autônomo de Mexico;

Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University

Theoharides

Banned from the Band: The Effect of Migration Barriers on Origin-Country Labor Market

DecisionsCaroline Theoharides, Amherst College Kleemans

SESSION 10: AGRICULTURE

Chair:

Location: C


Do Financial and Labor Market Frictions Interact to Constrain Farm Size and Productivity? Alex Cohen, Yale University Kutzman

Your Feedback Matters, To You: Evidence from Extension ServicesMaria Jones, World Bank; Florence Kondylis,

World BankNyarko

The effects of communal land certification on land use: Evidence from Mexico

Alain de Janvry, University of California,

Berkeley; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University

of Toronto; Daley Kutzman, University of

California, Berkeley; Elisabeth Sadoulet,

University of California, Berkeley

Cohen

Price Information, Inter-Village Networks, and \Bargaining Spillovers": Experimental

Evidence from GhanaYaw Nyarko, New York University Kondylis

SESSION 11: CONSEQUENCES of CONFLICT

Chair:

Location: D


GPS Data, War Exposure, and Child Health

Richard Akresh, University Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign; German Caruso, University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Harsha

Thirumurthy, University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill

Christian

Natural Resources, Conflict and Democracy: An Analysis of the Resource Curse in

Colombia

Maria Carreri, New York University;

Oeindrila Dube, NYU Di Maio

Lynchings, Labour and Cotton in the U.S. South Cornelius Christian, University of Oxford Akresh

Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Firm Performance and Input Misallocation in

Palestine

Francesco Amodio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra;

Michele Di Maio, University of Naples

Parthenope

Carreri

SESSION 12: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Chair:

Location: E


The Persistent Effects of Demand Shocks for Sexual Services During the Vietnam War Abel Brodeur, Paris School of Economics Emran

Real and Financial Effects of Credit Shocks: Evidence from Medium-Sized Firms in

ColombiaSebastian Bustos, Harvard University Ferraz

Food Prices and Marketing Intermediaries: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Edible

Oils Market in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy

Dialogue at Columbia University; Dilip

Mookherjee, Boston University; Forhad Shilpi,

World Bank; Helal Uddin, Dhaka University

Bustos

Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics

Claudio Ferraz, PUC-Rio; Frederico Finan,

University of California, Berkeley; Dimitri

Szerman, PUC-Rio and Climate Policy Initiative

Brodeur

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SESSION 13: BEHAVIOR and DEVELOPMENT: NEW THEORY and EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Chair:

Location: F


Dynamic Loss Aversion, Growth, and Development Seth Blumberg, University of Chicago Haushofer

Can Farmers Create Efficient Networks? Experimental Evidence from Rural IndiaStefano Caria, Oxford University; Marcel

Fafchamps, Stanford University de Janvry

The Cost of Keeping Track Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University Blumberg

Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand

Jing Cai, University of Michigan; Alain de

Janvry, University of California, Berkeley;

Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California,

Berkeley

Caria

SESSION 14: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Chair:

Location: G


Resilience to Early Life Shocks Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan Tan

Migration, the financial crisis, and child growth in rural Guatemala John Maluccio, Middlebury College Ross

Developing Hope: The Impact of International Child Sponsorship on Self-Esteem and

Aspirations

Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota; Phillip

Ross, Boston University; Bruce Wydick,

University of San Francisco

Maluccio

Sins of the Father: The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on

Children’s Cognitive Development

Chih Ming Tan, University of North Dakota;

Zhibo Tan, Peking University; Xiaobo Zhang,

Peking University and IFPRI

Adhvaryu

12:40 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SERVED

Location:

1:00 - 3:00 PM PLENARY SESSION

Migration, Urbanization, and Development: A Plenary Session

in Honor of John Harris

Speakers:

Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School

Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford

Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University

Chair: Andy Newman, Boston University

Location:

3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK

3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 3

SESSION 15: SAVINGS and FINANCIAL DECISIONS

Chair:

Location: A


Consumer Perceptions and Saving Behavior Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University Karlan

Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School Quinn

The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

James Berry, Cornell University; Dean Karlan,

Yale University; Menno Pradhan, Free

University Amsterdam

Ajayi

Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a

Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan

Uzma Afzal, Lahore School of Economics;

Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University; Simon

Quinn, University of Oxford; Farah Said,

Lahore School of Economics

Callen

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SESSION 16: FRONTIERS of IMPACT EVALUATION

Chair:

Location: B


From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment

Rajeev Dehejia, New York University; Cristian

Pop-Eleches, Columbia University; Cyrus Samii,

New York University

Gechter

Sensitivity to Unobserved Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Generalizing Results from

Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence from Two Education Experiments in IndiaMichael Gechter, Boston University Dehejia

(Adverse) General Equilibrium Effects of Cash TransfersMichael Christian Lehmann, University of

BrasiliaMilusheva

Effects of a Fertility and Health Intervention on Household Assets: A Longitudinal

Analysis Using Corrective Weights

Andrew Foster, Brown University; Sveta

Milusheva, Brown University Lehmann

SESSION 17: PUBLIC GOODS and INFRASTRUCTURE

Chair:

Location: C


Transportation Infrastructure and Welfare in Nigeria

Rubaba Ali, University of Maryland, College

Park; Alvaro Barra, The World Bank; Claudia

Berg, The George Washington University;

Richard Damania Jason Russ, George

Washington University

Szerman

The Employment Effects of Road Construction in Rural IndiaSamuel Asher, Oxford University; Paul

Novosad, Dartmouth College

Gonzalez-

Navarro

The Effects of Road Quality on Household Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways

Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley;

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of

Toronto; Tadeja Gracner, University of

California, Berkeley; Alexander Rothenberg,

RAND Corporation

Asher

Electrification, Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil

Juliano Assunção, PUC-Rio / CPI-Rio; Molly

Lipscomb, University of Virginia; Ahmed

Mobarak, Yale University; Dimitri Szerman,

PUC-Rio and Climate Policy Initiative

Ali

SESSION 18: INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT and GROWTH

Chair:

Location: D


The Political Economy of Land Institutions, Tenure and Agricultural Productivity Sabrin BegSanchez de la

Sierra

How Much Do Leaders Explain Growth? An Exercise in Growth AccountingWilliam Easterly, New York University; Steven

Pennings, World BankQin

The determinants of media bias in China Bei Qin, The University of Hong Kong Pennings

On the Impact of States: Contract Enforceability and Ethnic Institutions in East CongoRaul Sanchez de la Sierra, Columbia

University Beg

SESSION 19: ORGANIZATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Chair:

Location: E


Risk and Relationships: Ice Retailing in the Sierra Leone Fishing IndustryTarek Ghani, University of California,

Berkeley; Tristan Reed, Harvard University Newman

Competition, Efficiency and Trust: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Wet Mills Ameet Morjaria, Harvard University Ghani

Integration and Management in Industry EquilibriumPatrick Legros, Université Libre de Bruxelles;

Andrew Newman, Boston University, CEPR Trinh

How do business practices affect micro and small firms’ performance? Evidence from

VietnamLong Trinh Morjaria

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SESSION 20: HEALTH: POLICY and PROVISION

Chair:

Location: F


Performance-Based Incentives to Fight Tuberculosis: Evidence from a Randomized

Experiment in Northern India

Thomas Bossuroy, World Bank; Clara

Delavallade, IFPRI; Vincent Pons,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sylvia

Choosing Amongst Health Providers: How Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Long-Term

BehaviorDavid Glick, Brown University Null

Does community ownership help or hinder management of a common good? Experimental

evidence from Kenya

Vivian Hoffmann, IFPRI; Renaud Lapeyre,

Innovations for Poverty Action; Clair Null,

Mathematica Policy Research; Olga

Rostapshova, Social Impact

Glick

Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid Like CEOs? School Principal Incentives for Anemia

Reduction in Rural China

Renfu Luo, IGSNRR; Grant Miller, Stanford

University; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University;

Sean Sylvia, Renmin University of China;

Marcos Vera-Hernandez, University College

London

Delavallade

SESSION 21: INFLUENCES on SCHOOLING DECISIONS

Chair:

Location: G


Parental Health Shocks, Child Labor and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania Shamma Alam, University of Washington Steinberg

Sanitation and Education Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago O'Connell

Political Empowerment and School Enrollment: Identifying the Effects of a National Social

PolicyStephen O'Connell, CUNY Adukia

Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on

Human Capital

Bryce Steinberg, Harvard University; Manisha

Shah, University of California Los AngelesAlam

5:00 - 8:00 PM RECEPTION AND POSTERS

Location:

SESSION 22: POSTERS (details on page 14)

7:30 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST

Location:

8:30 - 10:10 AM SECTION 4

SESSION 23: POLITICAL ECONOMY and LAND

Chair:

Location: A


Political Constraints and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in

Mexico

Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los

Andes; Horacio Larreguy, Harvard UniversityQin

Networked Leaders in the Shadow of the Market : A Chinese Experiment in Allocating

Land Conversion Rights

Nancy Chau, Cornell University; Yu Qin,

National University of Singapore; Weiwen

Zhang, Zhejiang University

Fergusson

Living in Ungoverned Space: Pakistan’s Frontier Crimes Regulation

Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School; Saad

Gulzar, New York University; Arman Rezaee,

University of California, San Diego; Jacob

Shapiro, Princeton University

Aragon

Sanchez

Do better property rights improve local income?: Evidence from First Nations' treatiesFernando Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser

UniversityRezaee

SESSION 24: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INDUSTRIAL POLICY and DEVELOPMENT

Chair:

Location: B


Trade and Development: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade Reka Juhasz, LSE Paz

International Trade and Household Businesses: Evidence from Vietnam Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Laurier University Rotemberg

Intermediate Inputs and Premature Deindustrialization: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case Lourenco Paz, Syracuse University Juhasz

Competitive Spillovers: Evidence From a Policy Change in India Martin Rotemberg McCaig

SUNDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER, 2014

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SESSION 25: CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of REMITTANCES

Chair:

Location: C


The Impact of Fee Discounts on Remittances: A Field Experiment with Migrants from

Central America

Kate Ambler, IFPRI; Diego Aycinena,

Universidad Francisco Marroquin; Dean Yang,

University of Michigan

Narciso

Internal migration as a risk-coping strategy: evidence from a typhoonAndre Groeger, Goethe University Frankfurt;

Yanos Zylberberg, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Molina Millan

Migration, Co-Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from NicaraguaTeresa Molina Millan, Paris School of

EconomicsGroeger

Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field ExperimentCatia Batista, Nova University of Lisbon; Gaia

Narciso, Trinity College Dublin Ambler

SESSION 26: FERTILITY

Chair:

Location: D


Fertility Limits on Local Politicians in IndiaS. Anukriti, Boston College; Abhishek

Chakravarty, University of Essex Jayachandran

Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in

IndonesiaEliana Carranza, World Bank Hussam

Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold

Outcomes in IndiaReshmaan Hussam, MIT Carranza

Fertility Decline and Missing WomenSeema Jayachandran, Northwestern

UniversityAnukriti

SESSION 27: CORRUPTION, CRIME, and ENFORCEMENT

Chair:

Location: E


Inside the War on Drugs: Effectiveness and Unintended Consequences of a Large Illicit

Crop Eradication Program in ColombiaMaria Acevedo, Harvard University Blakeslee

Indian Labor Regulations and the High Cost of Corruption: Evidence from the Firm Size

Distribution

Amrit Amirapu, Boston University; Michael

Gechter, Boston University Mukherjee

Weather Shocks, Crime, and Agriculture: Evidence from IndiaDavid Blakeslee, New York University - Abu

DhabiAcevedo

Accountability of Public Officials under Appointments and Elections: Evidence from

IndonesiaPriya Mukherjee, Cornell University Amirapu

SESSION 28: WOMEN'S RESOURCES and the HOUSEHOLD

Chair:

Location: F


What’s Yours is Mine, and What’s Mine is Mine: Bargaining Power and Income

Concealing between Spouses in IndiaCarolina Castilla, Colgate University Tewari

Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence

from India

Rachel Heath, University of Washington; Xu

Tan, University of Washington Kagy

Globalization and Women’s Health and Intra-Household Bargaining Power: The Case of

the Bangladesh Garment IndustryGisella Kagy, University of Colorado Heath

Durable Ownership and Time Allocation: Evidence from China's ``Home Appliances to the

Countryside" Rebate

Ishani Tewari, Yale University; Yabin Wang,

University of California, Santa Cruz Castilla

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SESSION 29: EDUCATION and HUMAN CAPITAL

Chair:

Location: G


Assessing Teacher Quality in India Mehtabul Azam, Oklahoma State University Zeitlin

Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in IndiaSonja Fagernas, University of Sussex; Panu

Pelkonen, University of Sussex Singh

Emergence and Evolution of Learning Gaps across countries: Linked panel evidence from

Ethiopia, India, Peru and VietnamAbhijeet Singh, University of Oxford Pelkonen

Pay for Locally Monitored teacher attendance? A welfare analysis for Ugandan primary

schools

Jacobus Cilliers, University of Oxford; Ibrahim

Kasirye, Economic Policy Research Centre;

Clare Leaver, University of Oxford; Pieter

Serneels, University of East Anglia; Andrew

Zeitlin, Georgetown University

Azam

10:10 - 10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 - 12:10 PM SECTION 5

SESSION 30: POLITICAL ECONOMY

Chair:

Location: A


The Runner-Up EffectSantosh Anagol, Wharton; Thomas Fujiwara,

Princeton University Nath

Decentralization, elite capture, and private contributions: Experimental evidence from the

Solomon Islands

Andrew Beath, World Bank; Ariel Ben Yishay,

University of New South Wales; Giovanna

D'Adda, Universita' Bocconi; Pauline Grosjean,

The University of New South Wales; Roberto

Weber, University of Zurich

Maldonado

The Political Effects of Resource Abundance: Evidence from PeruStanislao Maldonado, University of

California, Berkeley Ben Yishay

Politics and Bureaucrats' Performance: Can Low Political Competition be a Good Thing? Anusha Nath, Boston University Anagol

SESSION 31: INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Chair:

Location: B


Trade Integration and Political Radicalization: German Evidence from the Rise of the East

and the Fall of theWall

Christian Dippel, University of California, Los

Angeles; Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol Pellegrina

The Role of Ethnic Networks in Africa: Evidence from Cross-Country Trade Mathias Iwanowsky Teshima

Roads, Trade and Urbanization in the Tropics: Theory and Evidence from the Brazilian

AmazonHeitor Pellegrina Dippel

Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers: Evidence from a Large Trade

Liberalization Episode

Yoichi Sugita, Stockholm School of Economics;

Kensuke Teshima, Instituto Tecnológico

Autónomo de México; Enrique Seira, ITAM

Iwanowsky

SESSION 32: TAXES and TRANSFERS: EFFECTS in MARKETS with CAPACITY and CREDIT CONSTRAINTS

Chair:

Location: C


Leakage in fuel subsidy Prabhat Barnwal, Columbia University Goldberg

The Design of Public Works and the Competing Goals of Investment and Food Security

Kathleen Beegle, World Bank; Emanuela

Galasso, The World Bank; Jessica Goldberg,

University of Maryland

Barnwal

Switching Sectors: The Equilibrium Effects of Income Taxation on Labor Markets in

MexicoHeidi Schramm, University of Virginia Troland

Can Fiscal Transfers Increase Local Revenue Collection? Evidence From The PhilippinesErin Troland, University of California, San

DiegoSchramm

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SESSION 33: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION

Chair:

Location: D


Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Understanding Fertilizer Mismanagement in Bangladesh

through Leaf Color ChartsMahnaz Islam, Harvard University Mueller

Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from

Mozambique

Michael Carter, University of California, Davis;

Rachid Laajaj, Paris School of Economics,

INRA; Dean Yang, University of Michigan

Wilkes

Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment

Florence Kondylis, World Bank; Valerie

Mueller, International Food Policy Research

Inst.; Siyao Zhu, World Bank

Islam

Reap What Your Friends Sow: Church Mergers and Technology Adoption in the Upper

Midwest

Fiona Wilkes, University of California,

Berkeley; Andrew Stevens, University of

California, Berkeley

Laajaj

SESSION 34: HEALTH: SHOCKS, INSURANCE, and CARE

Chair:

Location: E


When to Start HIV Treatment: Evidence from a Quasi-ExperimentJacob Bor, Boston University; Till

Bärnighausen, Harvard UniversityGong

Evaluating a Universal Health Insurance Program: Evidence from Mexico Rita Ginja, Uppsala University Sheth

Coping with Risk: The Effects of Shocks on Reproductive Health and Transactional Sex in

Rural Tanzania

Damien de Walque, The World Bank; William

Dow, University of California, Berkeley; Erick

Gong, Middlebury College

Bor

Assessing adverse selection and health care demand in micro health insurance: Evidence

from a community based insurance model in IndiaKetki Sheth, University of California, Merced Ginja

SESSION 35: INTRAHOUSEHOLD DISTRIBUTION and the EXTENDED FAMILY

Chair:

Location: F


Anticipating Polygyny: How is Household Economics Affected?

Marie Boltz-Laemmel, Paris School of

Economics; Isabelle Chort, PSL, Université

Paris-Dauphine

LaFave

Heterogeneity and Aggregation: Testing for Efficiency in Intra-Household Allocation Robert Garlick, Duke University Rubio

Extended Families and Child Well-beingDaniel LaFave, Colby College; Duncan

Thomas, Duke University Boltz-Laemmel

How Love Conquered Marriage: Theory and Evidence on the Disappearance of Arranged

Marriages

Gabriela Rubio, University of California,

MercedGarlick

SESSION 36: SCHOOL CHOICE, COMPETITION, and PERFORMANCE

Chair:

Location: G


School Competition and Product Differentiation Natalie Bau, Harvard University Bobba

Learning about oneself: the effects of signalling ability on school choicesMatteo Bobba, Inter-American Development

BankBau

Distributional Effects of Demand Convergence on Admission Outcomes and School

StratificationRicardo Estrada, Paris School of Economics Hincapie

Do longer school days improve student achievement? Evidence from ColombiaDiana Hincapie, Inter-American Development

BankEstrada

12:10 - 1:20 PM LUNCH

Location:

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1:20 - 3:00 PM SECTION 6

SESSION 37: POLITICS, POLICY and PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

Chair:

Location: A


Peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights: experimental evidence from urban

Tanzania

Matthew Collin, Center for Global

DevelopmentTrucco

Political Advertising and Voting Intentions: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Ads

Viewership

Ruben Durante, Sciences Po; Emilio Gutierrez,

Instituto Tecnológico Autônomo de MexicoSeither

Migration, Institutions and Social Networks in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Nova University of Lisbon; Julia

Seither, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Pedro

Vicente, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, BREAD

Durante

Fixing Broken Windows: The Effect of Government Maintenance Work on Citizens’

ComplaintsLaura Trucco, Harvard University Collin

SESSION 38: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT I

Chair:

Location: B


Agricultural Diversification and Economic Development: Evidence from U.S. History Martin Fiszbein, Brown University Walker

Coexistence, Polarization, and Development: Armenian Legacy in Modern Turkey Seyhun Sakalli, Paris School of Economics Valencia

The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South

AmericaFelipe Valencia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Sakalli

Does the Future Have an Ancient Heart? Experimental Evidence of Imperial Legacies in

Preferences and Savings

Sarah Walker, University of Wisconsin,

MadisonFiszbein

SESSION 39: GENDER I

Chair:

Location: C


The demographic transition and the position of women: A marriage market perspective V. Bhaskar, University College London Correa

The Size of Local Legislatures and Women’s Political Representation: Evidence from

BrazilGabriel Correa, FEA - USP Bhaskar

Childcare Indivisibility and Maternal Employment

Claudia Martínez, Universidad de Chile;

Marcela Perticara, ILADES-Universidad Alberto

Hurtado

Sviatschi

Long-term Effects of Temporary Labor Demand: Free Trade Zones, Female Education and

Marriage Market Outcomes in the Dominican RepublicMaria Sviatschi, Columbia University Martínez

SESSION 40: ENVIRONMENT and NATURAL RESOURCES

Chair:

Location: D


Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent

Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

Raymond Guiteras, University of Maryland;

Ahmed Mobarak, Yale University Sekhri

Firms' Response and Unintended Health Consequences of Industrial Regulations Gianmarco Leon, UPF and Barcelona GSE Nyshadham

The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan;

Namrata Kala, Yale University; Anant

Nyshadham, University of Southern

California

Leon

Agricultural Trade and Depletion of GroundwaterPaul Landefeld, Joint Committee on Taxation;

Sheetal Sekhri, University of VirginiaGuiteras

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SESSION 41: RISK and INSURANCE

Chair:

Location: E


The Impact of Contract Design on Insurance Take-up Jing Cai, University of Michigan Jensen

The Subjective Well-being Effects of Imperfect Insurance that Doesn’t Pay Out

Kibrom Hirfrfot, Cornell University;

Christopher Barrett, Cornell University; Erin

Lentz, University of Texas at Austin; Birhanu

Taddesse, ILRI Addis Ababa

Vasilaky

How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index

Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya

Nathaniel Jensen, Cornell University; Andrew

Mude, International Livestock Research Institute;

Christopher Barrett, Cornell University

Hirfrfot

Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group

Insurance

Katya Vasilaky, Columbia University, Earth

InstituteCai

SESSION 42: DECISIONS: INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE and PEER EFFECTS

Chair:

Location: F


Focusing Effect and the Poverty Trap Andrea Canidio, Central European University Carvalho

Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources

at Payday

Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern

California; Stephan Meier, Columbia

University; Stephanie Wang, University of

Pittsburgh

Canidio

Social Interactions and Stigma Behavior Xi Chen, Yale University and IZA Schilbach

Alcohol consumption, self control, and income - A study with rickshaw pullers in India Frank Schilbach, Harvard University Chen

SESSION 43: PARENTS and CHILDREN: INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on EDUCATION

Chair:

Location: G


The Impact of Mother Literacy and Participation Programs on Child Learning: Evidence

from a Randomized Evaluation in India

Rukmini banerji, Aser Centre; James Berry,

Cornell University; Marc Shotland, J-PAL Reis

Old-Age Income Support, Gender Differentials in Human Capital Investment of Children,

and EfficiencyAlok Kumar, University of Victoria Lucas

Do Health Investments Improve Education Outcomes? Evidence from the

Intergenerational Effects of HIV/AIDS TreatmentAdrienne Lucas, University of Delaware Kumar

Girls' school attendance: A Dynamic discrete choice structural approach Hugo Reis, UCL Berry

3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK

3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 7

SESSION 44: EARLY-LIFE SHOCKS and INVESTMENTS

Chair:

Location: A


Long-run Impact and Intergenerational Transmission of Shocks in Early-Life: Evidence

from Natural Disasters in Latin America

German Caruso, University of Illinois at

Urbana ChampaignCoffey

Women's status and children's height in India: Evidence from joint rural households

Diane Coffey, Princeton University; Reetika

Khera, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi;

Dean Spears, Delhi School of Economics

Molina

Early-Life Conditions, Parental Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a

Violent ConflictValentina Duque, Columbia University Caruso

Recovering from Early Life Trauma: Dynamic Substitution between Child Endowments

and Investments

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan;

Teresa Molina, University of Southern

California; Anant Nyshadham, University of

Southern California

Duque

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SESSION 45: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT II

Chair:

Location: B


The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan

Africa

Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University;

Louis Putterman, Brown University; David Weil,

Brown University

Teso

Blood Rubber: The Effects of Labor Coercion on Development and Culture in the DRCSara Lowes, Harvard University; Eduardo

Montero, Harvard University Nikolova

Entrepreneurship, victimization and the historical legacy of war: evidence from Eastern

Europe and Central Asia

Cagatay Bircan, EBRD; Elena Nikolova,

European Bank for Reconstruction and

Development

Montero

The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles:

Evidence from the Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeEdoardo Teso Michalopoulos

SESSION 46: GENDER II

Chair:

Location: C


The price of gold: gold price inflation and son-preferring behaviour in India

Sonia Bhalotra, University of Essex; Abhishek

Chakravarty, University of Essex; Selim Gulesci,

Bocconi University

Tolonen

Maternal Mortality and Female Life Expectancy: The Importance of Gender InequalityJoseph Gomes, University of Essex; Sonia

Bhalotra, University of Essex Tang

Cross-Country Diffusion of Culture through FDI: A Firm-Level Analysis of Gender

Inequality in ChinaHeiwai Tang, Johns Hopkins University Gomes

Strike Gold: Mining, Empowerment and Infant Mortality Anja Tolonen, University of Gothenburg Bhalotra

SESSION 47: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INVESTMENT and POLICIES

Chair:

Location: D


Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of NationsDany Bahar, Harvard / Brookings / IADB;

Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics Zhu

Pricing to market, Policy, and Market Power

Alan Asprilla, University of Lausanne; Nicolas

Berman, Graduate Institute of International and

Development Studies; Olivier Cadot, Université

de Lausanne; Melise Jaud, The World Bank

Garred

Export Taxes, Industrial Policy and the Value Chain in China After WTOJason Garred, London School of Economics

(LSE)Cadot

Trade, Migration and Regional Income Differences Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto Bahar

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SESSION 48: PERSONNEL ECONOMICS and LABOR REGULATION

Chair:

Location: E


Labor Regulations and Contract Labor Use: Evidence from Indian Firms Ritam Chaurey, Columbia University Davies

Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in GhanaElwyn Davies, University of Oxford / CSAE;

Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University Chaurey

Earning Expectations, Selection and Retention: Evidence From a Recruitment Experiment

in Uganda

Erika Deserranno, London School of

EconomicsFranklin

Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: The Impact of a Randomized Transport

Subsidy in Urban EthiopiaSimon Franklin, Oxford University Deserranno

SESSION 49: FOREIGN AID

Chair:

Location: F


Are Vaccines Fungible? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Large International Aid

Program

Sarah Dykstra, Center for Global

Development; Amanda Glassman, Center for

Global Development; Charles Kenny, Center for

Global Development; Justin Sandefur, Center for

Global Development

Van de Sijpe

Navigation by Judgment: Organizational Autonomy and Country Context in the Delivery

of Foreign AidDaniel Honig, Harvard Kennedy School Kilby

Assessing the impact of World Bank preparation on project outcomes Christopher Kilby, Villanova University Honig

Foreign Aid and Domestic AbsorptionJonathan Temple, University of Bristol; Nicolas

Van de Sijpe, University of Oxford Dykstra

SESSION 50: NATURAL DISASTERS

Chair:

Location: G


Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural

Indonesia

Jérémie Gignoux, Paris School of Economics;

Marta Menendez, University Paris-Dauphine and

PSL

Jina

The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth:

Evidence from 6,700 cyclones

Solomon Hsiang, University of California,

Berkeley; Amir Jina, Columbia University Gignoux

Does network matter after a natural disaster? A study on resource sharing within informal

network after cyclone AILA

Asadul Islam, Monash University; Chau

Nguyen, Monash University Reimers

Livestock as an Imperfect Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated MarketsSimon Lange, University of Goettingen; Malte

Reimers, University of Goettingen Nguyen

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Author Poster #

Dennis Becker, Cornell University 1

Vidhya Soundararajan, Cornell University 2

Richard Bluhm, Maastricht University; Denis

de Crombrugghe, Maastricht University; Adam

Szirmai, United Nations University

3

Giorgia Romagnoli, New York University 4

Tisorn Songsermsawas 5

Namrata Kala, Yale university 6

Giordano Palloni, The University of

Maryland7

Nicole Hildebrandt, New York University 8

Helene Bie Lilleør, Rockwool Foundation 9

Jacob Bor, Boston University; Jan-Walter De

Neve, Harvard University10

Eun-young Shim, University of California,

San Diego11

Sandro Diez-Amigo, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology12

Damian Clarke, University of Oxford 13

Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan 14

Martin Abel, Harvard University 15

Jason Kerwin, University of Michigan 16

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Cornell University;

Beliyou Haile, International Food Policy

Research Institute (IFPRI); Taewha Lee, Yonsei

University

17

Sara Hernandez 18

Sebastian Otero, J-PAL; Tomas Rau, Pontificia

Universidad Catolica de Chile; 19

Elaine Liu, University of Houston; Jin-Tan Liu,

National Taiwan University; Tzu-Yin Hazel

Tseng, University of Houston

20

Julien Labonne, Oxford University 21

Anirvan Chowdhury, Georgetown University 22

Susan Godlonton, IFPRI; Edward Okeke,

RAND23

Rawaa Harati, University of Paris Pantheon

Sorbonne; Morgan Hardy, Brown University24

Christopher Roth, University of Oxford 25

Kevin Croke, The World Bank 26

Yanfang Su, Harvard School of Public Health 27

Product diversification in the presence of two types of informality

Minimum Wage Eects at Dierent Enforcement Levels: Evidence from Employment Surveys in India

Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises?

Information Aggregation in Commodity Markets with Storage

Peer Effects on Input Investments, Cash Crop Revenue and Profitability in India

The Impact of College Peers on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile

Assessing Plan B: The Effect of the Morning After Pill on Women and Children

The Effect of Customer Information on the Price and Quality of Anti-Malarial Drugs

Discrimination in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Online Job Advertisements in South Africa

Robust Learning and Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from Indian Agriculture

Childhood Health and the Wantedness of Male and Female Children

Rainfall Shocks and Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa and India

Child labor or human capital diversification among siblings?

A Social Vaccine? HIV Infection, Fertility, and the Non-Pecuniary Returns to Secondary Schooling in Botswana

The Long Run Effects of Early Childhood Deworming on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence from Uganda

Measurement of Health Behaviors from a List Experiment with Application to Intravenous Infusions and Smoking

in China

Paper

POSTERS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 5:00 - 8:00PM

Location:

Local Political Business Cycles. Evidence from Philippine Municipalities

Poverty Alleviation or Political Calculation? The Political Economy of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee

Scheme

The Effect of a Ban on Traditional Birth Attendants on Child Mortality

Illuminating the Shadow Economy: Using lights from space to estimate a new measure of informal economic

activity

Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects Among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment.

The Effect of HIV Infection Risk Beliefs on Sexual Behavior: Scared Straight or Scared to Death?

HIV/AIDS Knowledge, HIV Testing, and Sexual Behavior

Guns n' Roses: The Impact of Stable and Secure Female Employment Opportunities on Violence in Colombia

New Evidence of the Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Drinking and Driving. The Case of Chile

The Effect of a Natural Disaster on the Incidence of Miscarriages, Stillbirths and Pregnancy Outcomes

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and

Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico

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