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NEUDC DETAILED SCHEDULE (PRELIMINARY) *Coming Soon: Chairs, discussants & links to papers *

November 12‐13, 2011, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, WL Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street & SSS

Each paper is allotted 25 minutes: 15 for the presentation, 5 for the discussant, 5 for questions. Presenters indicated in bold for multi‐

authored papers. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or if you have not yet confirmed attendance/presenters.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011

8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration

Location: Commons, 168 Grove Street

9:00 10:40 AM SECTION 1

SESSION 1: HEALTH: INCENTIVES, CHAIR:

Location: Room WLH 116

Paper Authors Discussant

A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China

Sean Sylvia; University of Maryland

Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums

Prakarsh Singh; Amherst College

Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out

Private

Health

Investments?

Malaria

Control Policies in Eritrea

Pedro Carneiro; UCL, Andrea Locatelli;

University

College

London

Integration of Microfinance and Health

Education: Evidence from a Randomized

Controlled Trial in Rural India

Joao Montalvao; University College

London

SESSION 2: SOCIAL CAPITAL, CHAIR:



The Diffusion of Microfinance Abhijit Banerjee; MIT, Arun

Chandrasekhar; MIT, Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matthew O. Jackson; Stanford

University Network Effect and Technology Adoption:

Anti‐Malarial bed nets and Insecticide

Treatments in Orissa, India

Chutima Tontarawongsa; Duke

University

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND INDIVIDUAL

REPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS

Muthoni Ngatia; Yale University

Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks

Garance Genicot; Georgetown

University

SESSION 3: EDUCATION IMPACT EVALUATION, CHAIR:



The Search for the Right Incentive: Response to Changes in

the Incentive Scheme of Participants in Conditional Cash

Transfer Programs

Guadalupe Bedoya; University of Chicago

The Short‐Term Impacts of the One Laptop per Child

Program: A Randomized Evaluation

Julian Cristia; Inter‐American Development Bank, Pablo Ibarraran; Inter‐American

Development Bank, Santiago Cueto; GRADE, Ana Santiago; Inter‐American Development Bank, Eugenio Severin; Inter‐American

Development Bank

Testing for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in

Experimental Data: False Discovery Risks and Correction

Procedures

Gunther Fink; Harvard University

Margaret McConnell; Harvard University, Sebastian Vollmer; Harvard University

Assessing the Long‐term Effects of Conditional Cash

Transfers on Human Capital: Evidence from Colombia

Adriana Camacho; Universidad de los Andes, Javier Baez; The World Bank

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SESSION 4: INTRA‐HOUSEHOLD, CHAIR:



Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference

and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in

Indonesia

Eliana Carranza; Harvard University

Grandfathers and

Grandsons:

Should

cash

transfers be targeted to women?

Emilio Gutierrez

Fernandez;

ITAM

Laura Juarez; Instituto Tecnologico

Autonomo de Mexico, Adrian Rubli; ITAM

Sibling Rivalry in Education: Estimation of Intra‐household Trade‐offs in Human

capital Investment

Slesh Shrestha; University of Michigan

Is couple's joint decision making associated

with favorable household consumption

patterns for children? Evidence from Cebu, Philippines

John Michael Ian Salas; University of California, Irvine

SESSION 5:

SELF

‐EMPLOYMENT,

CHAIR:



Self Employment in Developing Countries: a

Search‐Equilibrium Approach

Renata Narita; UCL

Self ‐employment and Informality in Africa: Panel Evidence from Satisfaction Data

Bob Rijkers; World Bank, Paolo Falco; Oxford University, Centre for the Study

of African Economies, William Maloney; World Bank, Mauricio Sarrias; Universidad Catolica del norte

Determinants of income in informal self ‐employment: new evidence from a long

African panel

Paolo Falco; Oxford University, Centre

for the Study of African Economies

Learning about Comparative Advantage in

Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand

Anant Nyshadham; Yale University

SESSION 6: POLITICAL ECONOMY: NETWORKS, CHAIR:



CORPORATE NETWORKS AND PEER EFFECTS

IN FIRM POLICIES: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

Manasa Patnam; University of Cambridge

Law and identity manipulation: evidence

from a natural experiment.

Guilhem Cassan; Paris School of Economics

Why are

land

reforms

granting

complete

property rights politically risky? Electoral outcomes of Mexicoâ ™s second land

reform

Alain de

Janvry;

University

of

California

at Berkeley, Marco Gonzalez‐Navarro; University of Toronto, Elisabeth

Sadoulet; University of California at Berkeley



SESSION 7: CORRUPTION, CHAIR:



Can Developing Countries Export Corruption? Evidence from Corporate Tax

Evasion in the United States

Ngoc Anh Tran; Indiana University

Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence

from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil

Stephan Litschig; Universitat Pompeu

Fabra, Yves Zamboni; Controladoria‐

Geral da

Uniao

Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in

Afghanistan

Michael Callen; UCSD, James Long; UCSD

One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Panel Data Evidence from Hometown

Infrastructure in an Autocracy

Kieu‐Trang Nguyen; Indiana University

Quoc‐Anh Do; Singapore Management University, Anh Tran; Indiana University

10:40 – 11:00 AM BREAK

11:00 – 12:40 PM SECTION 2

SESSION 8: AGRICULTURE, CHAIR:

Location:

Room

WLH

119


Estimation of a Dynamic Agricultural Production Model with Observed, Subjective Distributions

Brian Dillon; Cornell University

How accurate is recall data? Evidence from

coastal India

Francesca de Nicola; IFPRI Xavier Gine; The World Bank

The Impact of Receiving Price and Weather Information in Colombia’s Agricultural Sector

Adriana Camacho; Universidad de los

Andes. Emily Conover; Hamilton College

SESSION 9: TRADE, CHAIR:



Information Frictions in Trade Treb Allen; Yale University

Export markets, household businesses, and

formal jobs: Evidence from the U.S.‐Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement

Brian McCaig; Australian National University. Nina Pavcnik; Dartmouth

College

Multi‐Product Firms and Exchange Rate

Fluctuations

Rafael Dix‐Carneiro; University of Maryland

Export Competitiveness of Developing

Countries and US Trade Policy

Shushanik Hakobyan; Middlebury

College

SESSION 10: CONFLICT, CHAIR:



Inciting Riots: Testing Whether Rainfall is a

Valid Instrument when looking at Civil Conflict

Heather Sarsons; Harvard University

Lost in Transition? How Civil War Violence

Can Impair the Foundations for Market Development

Pauline Grosjean; University of New

South Wales

Targets of Violence: Evidence from India's Naxalite Conflict

Oliver Vanden Eynde; LSE

Altitude, Genes and Town Names: A Study

of Historical Influence and Political Mobilization

Christopher Paik; Princeton University



SESSION 11: CHILDREN’S HUMAN CAPITAL, CHAIR:



Oportunidades and its Impact on Child

Nutrition

Gabriela Farfan; Duke University

Son‐Preference, Gender Differentials in

Child Labor and Schooling, and Efficiency

Alok Kumar; University of Victoria

LEAD EXPOSURE

AND

ITS

EFFECTS

ON

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE

FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL NEGLIGENCE

Tomas Rau;

Universidad

CatÃ³lica

de

Chile, Loreto Reyes; Ministry of Finance, Sergio Urzua; University of Maryland

Labor Market Opportunities and (Sex‐

Specific) Investment in Children's Human

Capital: Evidence from Mexico

Kaveh Majlesi; University of Texas at Austin

SESSION 12: PROPERTY RIGHTS, CHAIR:



States, Law, and Property Rights in West

Africa

Ryan Bubb; NYU School of Law

Land Property Rights and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico

Michele Valsecchi; University of Gothenburg

Village Political Economy, Land Tenure

Insecurity and the Rural to Urban Migration

Decision: Evidence from China

John Giles; World Bank, Ren Mu; Texas

A&M University

SESSION 13: POLITICAL ECONOMY: ELECTIONS, CHAIR:



The local electoral impacts of conditional cash transfers. Evidence from a field

experiment

Julien Labonne; Oxford University

Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers

in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana

Matthias Schundeln; Goethe University

Frankfurt

Incentives to Vote, Political Preferences

and Information: Evidence from a

Randomized Experiment in Peru

Gianmarco Leon; Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Provision of infrastructure and electoral support: Experimental evidence from street pavement

Marco Gonzalez‐Navarro; University of Toronto

SESSION 14: PROBLEMS OF CREDIT MARKETS, CHAIR:


Paper

Authors

Discussant

What Does Debt Relief Do for Development? Evidence from a Large‐Scale

Policy Experiment

Martin Kanz; The World Bank

Christopher Robert; Harvard University

Strategic Default in joint liability groups: Evidence from a natural experiment in India

Xavier Gine; The World Bank

Karuna Krishnaswamy; CGAP

Alejandro Ponce; World Justice Project

Impact Assessment of an Asset Transfer Program to the Ultra Poor

Shamika Ravi; Indian School of Business

External Validity and Partner Selection Bias Hunt Allcott; New York University

Sendhil Mullainathan; Harvard

University



12:40 – 2:00 PM LUNCH

12:40 – 2:00 PM NEUDC COMMITTEE MEETING

Location:

2:00 – 3:40 PM SECTION 3

SESSION 15: HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT I, CHAIR:

Location: Room

WLH

207


Why is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western

Africa? An African Slave Trade Perspective

John Dalton; Wake Forest University

Borders that Divide: Education and Religion

in Ghana and its Neighbors since Colonial Times

Denis Cogneau; Paris School of Economics, Alexander Moradi; University of Sussex

The Lasting Impact of Colonial Educational Policies in Nigeria: Evidence from a Policy

Experiment on Missionary Activity

Horacio Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students

at) MIT

Slave Trade and Polygyny in Africa Lena Edlund; Columbia University

Hyejin Ku; Cornell University

SESSION 16: SAVINGS, CHAIR:



Commitments to Save: A Field Experiment in Rural Malawi

Dean Yang; University of Michigan

Revising Commitments: Time Preference

and Time‐Inconsistency in the Field


Jessica Goldberg; University of Maryland, Dan Silverman; University of Michigan, Dean Yang; University of Michigan

Do Simple Savings Accounts Help the Poor to Save? Evidence from a Field Experiment

in Nepal

Silvia Prina; Case Western Reserve

University

On the Impact of Mandatory Basic

Accounts on Financial Development: Evidence from Mexico

Karen Kaiser; Banco de Mexico

Carlos Lever; Banco de Mexico

Alejandrina Salcedo; Banco de Mexico

SESSION 17: GROWTH, CHAIR:



Growth and Factor Misallocations: Quantifying and Decomposing Aggregate

Allocative Efficiency

Ajay Shenoy; University of Michigan

Heterogeneous Mark‐Ups and Endogenous

Misallocation

Michael Peters; MIT

How Substitutable are Fixed Factors in

Production? Evidence from Pre‐Industrial England

Joshua Wilde; Brown University

India's Mysterious Manufacturing Miracle Albert Bollard; Stanford University

Peter Klenow; Stanford University

Gunjan Sharma; Univ. of Missouri



SESSION 18: MIGRATION & MOBILITY, CHAIR:



Magical Transition? Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in

Rural China: 1988‐2002

M. Shahe Emran; George Washington

University, Yan Sun; George

Washington University

Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled

Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth

Christine Binzel; Dartmouth College

Mexicans in America Maria Genoni; Duke University, Luis

Rubalcava; CIDE, Graciela Teruel; Calif.

Center for

Population

Research

Duncan Thomas; Duke University

Chinese Immigration to the United States: History, Selectivity and Human Capital

Joyce Chen; The Ohio State University

SESSION 19: HEALTH: OUTCOMES, CHAIR:



The Effect of Access to AIDS Treatment on

Employment Outcomes in South Africa

Zoe McLaren; University of Michigan

Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the

Long‐Term Effects of Early Childhood

Deworming

Owen Ozier; University of California, Berkeley

Early Life Health and Educational Performance: Evidence From Rainfall Fluctuations in the Brazilian Northeast

Rudi Rocha; PUC‐Rio, Rodrigo Soares; PUC‐Rio

Health Investment and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Cluster‐randomized Controlled Trial in Katete

District, Zambia

Gunther Fink; Harvard University

Felix Masiye; University of Zambia

SESSION 20: EDUCATION, CHAIR:



Are Returns to Education on the Decline in

Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a

Role to Play?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere; Georgia Institute

of Technology

Public Education Quality and Private School Enrollment

Fernanda Estevan; University of Ottawa

Buy More, Pay Less: Measuring the

Performance of Pakistani Contract Teachers

Natalie Bau; Harvard University

Jishnu Das; World Bank

Exam versus District Based Selection: Implications on Household Sorting and

Intergenerational Mobility

Yong Suk Lee; Brown University

SESSION 21: LABOR: INCENTIVES, CHAIR:


Paper

Authors

Discussant

Efficient non‐market institution with

imperfect labor market: cooperative

sharing for tropical forest clearing

Yoshito Takasaki; University of Tsukuba, Oliver Coomes; McGill University, Christian Abizaid; University of Toronto, Stephanie Brisson; McGill University

Bidding up agricultural wages: public works and rural labor markets

Clement Imbert; Paris School of Economics

Incentives and Social Preferences in a

Traditional Labor Contract: Evidence from

Rice Planting Field Experiments in the

Philippines

Jun Goto; University of Tokyo

Takeshi Aida; University of Tokyo

Keitaro Aoyagi; University of Tokyo

Yasuyuki Sawada; University of Tokyo

Do Women in China Compete Just as much

as Men? Experimental Evidence from a

Cultural Laboratory

Jane Zhang; UC Berkeley



3:40 – 4:00 PM BREAK

4:00 – 5:40 PM SECTION 4

SESSION 22: POLITICAL ECONOMY, CHAIR:



Redistributive Politics

and

Cash

Transfer

Programs

Matteo Bobba;

Paris

School

of

Economics

Political Connection and Government Patronage: Evidence from Chinese

Manufacturing Firms

Bei Qin; Stockholm University

Political Reform and Elite Persistence: Term

Limits and Political Dynasties in the

Philippines

Pablo Querubin; Massachusetts

Institute of Technology

Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Micro Evidence from Kenya

Ameet Morjaria; Harvard University

SESSION 23: HEALTH: LEARNING & BELIEFS, CHAIR:



Mother's Education and Infant Health: Evidence from Closure of High Schools in

China

Shuang Zhang; Cornell University

How Perceptions of HIV Risk Exposure

Affect Life‐Cycle Fertility: Evidence from

Rural Malawi

Gil Shapira; The World Bank

Learning, Misallocation, and Technology

Adoption: Evidence from New Malaria

Therapy in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu; Yale University

Risk Compensation, Beliefs, and Male

Circumcision: Experimental Evidence from

Kisumu, Kenya

Nicholas Wilson; Williams College

Wentao Xiong; Harvard Business School

SESSION 24: RISK, CHAIR:



Incentivizing Calculated Risk‐Taking Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School Martin Kanz; The World Bank

Leora Klapper; The World Bank

Are Individual Risk Preferences Time

Inconsistent? Temporal Construal and

Time‐dependent Changes in Risk

Preference.

Plamen Nikolov; Harvard University

How Does Risk Management Influence

Production

Decisions?

Evidence

from

a

Field Experiment

Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School

Xavier

Gine;

The

World

Bank

James Vickery; Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone

Network: Evidence from Rwanda

Joshua Blumenstock; UC Berkeley

Nathan Eagle; Santa Fe Institute

Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University



SESSION 25: FIRMS, CHAIR:



Success and failure of African exporters Leonardo Iacovone; World Bank

Transport Costs and Economic Geography: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways

Alexander Rothenberg; University of California, Berkeley

Can Minimum Wages Cause a Big Push?

Evidence from Indonesia

Jeremy Magruder; UC‐Berkeley

Schumpeterian Growth for Micro

Enterprises in Developing Countries: Evidence from Phone Card Wholesalers in

Mongolia

Mongoljin Batsaikhan; Brown University

SESSION 26: MIGRATION, CHAIR:



Undocumented Migration with Endogenous

Coyote Prices

Aureo de Paula; University of Pennsylvania, Timothy Halliday; University of Hawaii at Manoa

Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement

and Victim

Protection:

A

Middleman’s

Perspective

Randall Akee; Tufts University

Remittances and Rashomon Devesh Kapur

Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile

Phones on Migration in Niger

Jenny Aker; Tufts University, Center for Global Development, Michael Clemens; Center for Global Development Christopher Ksoll; University of Oxford

SESSION 27: INSTITUTIONS, CHAIR:



Empowering Widows through Land

Inheritance: The

Effect

on

Women's

Marriage Migration in Rural Tanzania

YUYA KUDO; Institute of Developing

Economies (IDE

‐JETRO)

Crime and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico

Ariel BenYishay; University of New

South Wales, Sarah Pearlman; Vassar College

Group Size and Cooperation: Theory and

Evidence from Nepal James Choy; Yale University

Protection through Proof of Age. Birth

Registration and Child Labor in Early 20th

Century USA.

Sonja Fagernas; University of Sussex

SESSION 28: POVERTY, CHAIR:



Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking

Poverty Traps: Framework and Application

to Ethiopian Household Panel Data

Sungil Kwak; George Washington

university, Stephen Smith; George

Washington University

Can Social Benefits Reach the Poorest Families?

Michael Amior; UCL, Pedro Carneiro; UCL, Emanuela Galasso; The World

Bank, Rita Ginja; Uppsala University

Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty

and Social Instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program

Christopher Blattman; Yale University

Nathan Fiala; World Bank, Sebastian

Martinez; World Bank

Supply and Demand Constraints on

Educational Investment: Evidence from

Garment Sector Jobs and the Female

Stipend Program

in

Bangladesh

Rachel Heath; University of Washington

and the World Bank



6:00 – 8:00 PM DINNER & POSTER SESSION

Poster Authors

The Two Sides of Envy Boris Gershman; Brown University

Mobilizing Investment Through Social Networks: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field

Emily Breza; MIT, Arun Chandrasekhar; MIT, Horacio

Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) MIT

Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas: the

Returns to Collective Action by Self ‐Help Groups

Paolo Casini; KULeuven, Lore Vandewalle; FUNDP

A Foreign Affair: Fertility and Divorce Responses of Local

Women

Due

to

the

Influx

of

Foreign

Brides

Lena Edlund; Columbia University

Elaine Liu;

University

of

Houston

Jin‐Tan Liu; National Taiwan University

The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Population Control Policies

in China

Tianran Dai; Brown University

Less Guns, More Crime: Evidence from Disarmament in Uganda

Laura ralston; MIT

The Impact of Drinking Water Infrastructure on Labor Allocation and Farm Production: Evidence from the

Kyrgyz Republic

Robyn Meeks; Harvard

Are Survey Measures of Trust Correlated with

Experimental Trust? Evidence from Cameroon

Alvin Etang Ndip; Yale University

Does Attending a More Selective School Improve

Student Outcomes?

Kehinde Ajayi; Boston University

TESTING MODELS OF SOCIAL LEARNING ON

NETWORKS: EVIDENCE FROM A FRAMED FIELD

EXPERIMENT

Juan Xandri; MIT, Arun Chandrasekhar; MIT ,Horacio

Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) MIT

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Mortality

and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Rural India

S Anukriti; Columbia University

Todd Kumler; Columbia University

Local Government Capability and Public Spending

Efficacy: Evidence from a Decentralized Government Transfer Program in Indonesia

Chikako Yamauchi; Australian National University

The Bargaining Power of Missing Women: Evidence

from Indian Sanitation Policy

Yaniv Stopnitzky; Yale University

El NiÃ±o and Mexican children: Medium‐term effects

of early‐life weather shocks on cognitive and health

outcomes

Arturo Aguilar Esteva; Harvard University, Marta

Vicarelli; Yale University

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011

8:00 – 9:00 AM BREAKFAST

9:00 10:40 AM SECTION 5

SESSION 29: LABOR MARKETS, DISASTER & RISK, CHAIR:



Natural Disasters and Labor Markets Martina Kirchberger; University of Oxford

The Impact of Disaster Aid Quality: Job

Choice after a Natural Disaster

Manabu Nose; World Bank

Job Uncertainty: The implications of uncertain employment in a development setting

Susan Godlonton; University of Michigan

Children of the Revolution: Fetal and Child

Health amidst Violent Civil Conflict

Christine Valente; University of Sheffield



SESSION 30: POLITICAL ECONOMY & DECENTRALIZATION, CHAIR:



Decentralization, Collusion and Coalmine

Deaths in China

Ruixue Jia; Stockholm University

The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: Evidence

from a Field Experiment on Legislative

Transparency in

an

Authoritarian

Assembly

Edmund Malesky; UCSD

Ngoc Anh Tran; Indiana University

Tax Me, But Spend Wisely : The Political Economy of Taxes, Theory and Evidence

from Brazilian Local Governments

Lucie Gadenne; Paris School of Economics

Politics and the geographic allocation of public funds in a semi‐democracy. The case

of Ghana, 1996 ‐ 2004.

Pierre ANDRE; University of Cergy‐

Pontoise

Sandrine Mesple‐Somps; DIAL, IRD Paris

SESSION 31: HEALTH: LONG RUN INVESTMENT, CHAIR:



Height, Height

Shrinkage

and

Health

at

Older Ages: Evidence from China

Wei Huang;

Peking

University

and

Harvard, Xiaoyan Lei; Peking University

Geert Ridder; University of Southern

California, John Strauss; University of Southern California, Yaohui Zhao; Peking University

Keeping the Doctor Away: Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative

Health Products

Jennifer Meredith; University of Washington, Jonathan Robinson; UC

Santa Cruz, Sarah Walker; University of Wisconsin Bruce Wydick; University of San Francisco

The Child Health Implications of Privatizing

the Urban Water Supply in Africa

Katrina Kosec; IFPRI

Long‐run Cognitive and Education Impacts

of Early

Life

Public

Health

Intervention:

Evidence from a Safe Motherhood Program

in Indonesia

Ava Gail Cas; Duke University

SESSION 32: MICROCREDIT, CHAIR:



Funding Microfinance under Asymmetric

Information

Eric Van Tassel; Florida Atlantic

University

Does flexibility in Microfinance pay off?

Evidence from a randomized evaluation in

rural India

Kristina Czura; Goete University

Frankfurt, Dean Karlan; Yale University


University

On the Impact of Microcredit: Evidence

from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Ethiopia

jaikishan desai; Children and Youth

Unit, Human Development Network

Kristin Johnson; Duke University

Alessandro Tarozzi; Duke University

Sex and Credit: Is There a Gender Bias in

Microfinance?

Thorsten Beck; Tilburg University

Patrick Behr; Brazilian School of Public

and Business Administration

Andreas Madestam; Bocconi University



SESSION 33: NATURAL RESOURCES, CHAIR:

Location: Room SSS 114


The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer:

Agricultural Adaptation

to

Groundwater

and Climate

Richard Hornbeck; Harvard University

and NBER,

Pinar

Keskin;

Wellesley

College

Evolving Patterns of Firewood Collections in

Nepal: A Household Panel Analysis 1995‐

2003

jean marie baland; department of economics, Francois Libois; University

of Namur, Dilip Mookherjee; Boston

University

Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence

from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program

Jennifer Alix‐Garcia; University of Wisconsin, Elizabeth Shapiro; Duke

University, Katharine Sims; Amherst College

Natural Resources and Local Communities: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine

Fernando Aragon Sanchez; Simon

Fraser University, Juan Pablo Rud; Royal Holloway, University of London

SESSION 34:

INEQUALITY,

CHAIR:



Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence

from India

Zahra Siddique; IZA

The Conditional Gini:Estimation and

Application to the Relationship between

Wealth, Financial Use, and Income

Inequality

Christian Ahlin; Michigan State

University

Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in

Inequality

Ethan Ligon; University of California, Berkeley

It's All About MeE Lant Pritchett; Harvard Kennedy School of Government Salimah Samji

SESSION 35: HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT II, CHAIR:



Why Is Africa Urbanized Despite Being

Poor? Evidence From Ghana and Ivory

Coast

Remi Jedwab; London School of Economics / PSE

Shadows of The Captain of the Men of Death: Long‐Run Impacts of Early Life

Pneumonia Exposure

Sonia Bhalotra; University of Bristol

War and Inquisition: social control in the

Spanish empire

Jordi Vidal‐Robert; Boston University

10:40 – 11:00 AM BREAK



11:00 – 12:40 PM Yale Economic Growth Center 50th Anniversary Plenary Session Location: Room SSS 114


What Have We Learned from Development Economics?

Speakers: Daron Acemoglu, Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, and Alain deJanvry

12:40 – 2:00 PM LUNCH

2:00

–

3:40

PM

SECTION

6

SESSION 36: FIRMS & CAPITAL, CHAIR:



Ownership Structure and Economic

Outcomes: The Case of Sugarcane Mills in

India


University, Sandip Sukhtankar; Dartmouth College

Experimental vs. Structural Estimates of the

Return to Capital in Microenterprises

Daniel Keniston; Yale

Credit Misplaced? Testing for Household‐

level Financial Constraints to Enterprise

Activity

Russell Toth; Cornell University

SESSION 37: MIGRATION & RISK, CHAIR:



Labor Market Changes in Response to

Immigration: Evidence from Internal Migration Driven by Weather Shocks in

Indonesia

Marieke Kleemans; U.C. Berkeley

Jeremy Magruder; UC‐Berkeley

Do Natural Disasters Really Lead to Forced

Migration? Evidence from Indonesia

Chun Wing Tse; Boston University

Migration and Risk Sharing Networks Melanie Morten, Yale University

Underinvestment in Profitable

Technologies when Experimentation is

Costly: Evidence from a Migration

Experiment in Bangladesh

Gharad Bryan; LSE, Shyamal Chowdhury; University of Sydney

Ahmed Mobarak; School of Management

SESSION 38: POLITICAL ECONOMY & ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, CHAIR:



Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth

Robert Bates; Harvard University

Steven Block; Tufts University

Common tongue: The impact of language

on economic performance

Tarun Jain; Indian School of Business

The Economic and Spillover Effects of Organized Crime: Evidence from the

Mexican Drug War

Melissa Dell; MIT

Long‐run Effects of Villagization in Tanzania Philip Osafo‐Kwaako; Harvard

University



SESSION 39: HEALTH: HIV/FERTILITY, CHAIR:


Papers Authors Discussant

Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission (PMTCT) Scale‐Up in Zambia

Nicholas Wilson; Williams College

Income Shocks and HIV Erick Gong; Middlebury College

Kelly Jones; IFPRI & UC Berkeley

Marshall Burke; Berkeley or Stanford

Using panel

data

to

partially

identify

HIV

prevalence when HIV status is not missing

at random

Bruno Arpino;

Bocconi

University

Elisabetta De Cao; Bocconi University

Franco Peracchi; Tor Vergata University

Evaluating the Mexico City Policy: How

international aid affects fertility outcomes

in Ghana

Kelly Jones; IFPRI & UC Berkeley

SESSION 40: EDUCATION ‐ TRANSITIONS, CHAIR:



Selective Schools and Education Decisions: Evidence from Malawi

Jacobus de Hoop; Tinbergen Institute

Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in

South Africa

Todd Pugatch; University of Michigan

Credit Constraints for Higher Education Alex Solis; University of California

Berkeley

Crossing Boundaries: Gender, Caste and

Schooling in Rural Pakistan

Hanan Jacoby; The World Bank

Ghazala Mansuri; The World Bank

SESSION 41: INSURANCE, CHAIR:



Social Networks and the Development of Insurance Market: Evidence from

Randomized Experiments

in

China

Jing Cai; UC Berkeley

Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem?

Experimental Evidence from Village

Economies

Pamela Jakiela; Washington University

in St. Louis, Owen Ozier; University of California, Berkeley

Social Networks, Financial Literacy and

Index Insurance


Dean Karlan; Yale University

Muthoni Ngatia; Yale University

Evaluating Seasonal Food Security

Programs in East Indonesia

Karna Basu; Hunter College, CUNY

Maisy Wong; University of Pennsylvania

SESSION 42: IMPROVING CREDIT MARKETS, CHAIR:


Paper

Authors

Discussant

Promiscuous Prediction: Applying Project Finance Models in Low‐income Settings

Christopher Robert; Harvard University

The Role of Accountants in Indian Self ‐Help

Groups: The Risk of Appropriating Unequal Shares of Bank Loans.

Lore Vandewalle; FUNDP

From Loans to Labor: Microcredit, Entrepreneurship and Child Labor

Leah Nelson; University of California

San Diego

From Loans to Labor: Microcredit, Entrepreneurship and Child Labor

Unpacking the Causal Chain of Financial Literacy

Fenella Carpena; University of California, Berkeley, Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School , Jeremy

Shapiro; Yale University, Bilal Zia; World

Bank

Documents

Preliminary Neudc Detailed Schedule