| Friday, April 5 |
| 7:00-8:00: Breakfast in Lowell Center Dining Room |
| Session I: 8:00-10:00 - All Sessions on the third floor of the Pyle Center |
| Networks I |
Discussant |
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Bakhrom Mirkasimov |
Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities |
Ajay Shenoy |
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Ajay Shenoy |
Risk and Economic Under-Specialization: Why the Pin-Maker Grows Cassava on the Side |
Silvia Prina |
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Silvia Prina |
The Effect of Financial Access on Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nepal |
Kei Kajisa |
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Kei Kajisa |
Neighborhood Effects and Social Behavior: The Case of Irrigated and Rainfed Farmers in Bohol, the Philippines |
Tanika Chakraborty |
| Health |
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Alan de Brauw |
Biofortification, crop adoption, and health information: Impact Pathways in Mozambique and Uganda |
Victoria Baranov |
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Victoria Baranov |
The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi |
Elaine Liu |
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Elaine Liu |
Does "In Utero" Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment |
Daniel Bennett |
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Daniel Bennett |
The Market for High Quality Medicine |
Alan de Brauw |
| International I |
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Ian Coxhead |
Princelings and Paupers: State employment and the distribution of human capital investments among Vietnamese households |
Nima Veiseh |
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Nima Veiseh |
Economic Development and Industrial Dynamics of Technological Change |
Sarah Walker |
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Sarah Walker |
The (Rail)road to Structural Change: Transportation Costs, Integration, and Production Specialization in a Regional Economy |
Justin Cook |
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Justin Cook |
The Role of Lactase Persistence in Precolonial Development |
Ian Coxhead |
| II: 10:15-12:15 |
| Networks II |
Discussant |
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Lori Beaman |
Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies within Social Networks: Evidence from Composting in Mali |
Laura Schechter |
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Andrew Dillon |
Nutrition Information, Networks and Childhood Anemia |
Nicholas Magnan |
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Nicholas Magnan |
Leveling with Friends: Social Networks and Indian Farmers’ Demand for Agricultural Custom Hire Services |
Lori Beaman |
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Valerie Mueller |
Seeing is Believing? Evidence from a Demonstration Plot Experiment in Mozambique |
Andrew Dillon |
| International II |
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John Gibson |
Rising Regional Inequality in China: Fact or Artefact? |
Chris Ahlin |
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Chris Ahlin |
The Conditional Gini: Estimation and Application to the Relationship between Wealth, Financial Use, and Income Inequality |
John Morrow |
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John Morrow |
Productivity As If Space Mattered:An Application to Factor Markets Across China |
Pin-Hang Fang |
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Pin-Hang Fang |
Capital Mobility and Saving-Investment Balance: Resolving the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle |
John Gibson |
| Health and environment |
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Joshua Wilde |
Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes |
Mahdi Majbouri |
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Mahdi Majbouri |
Oil and Female Labor Force Participation |
Sarah Humpage |
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Sarah Humpage |
Did you get your shots? Experimental evidence on the role of reminders from rural Guatemala |
Christine Moser |
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Christine Moser |
Voter Response to Conservation Policies in Forested Areas of Madagascar |
Joshua Wilde |
| 12:15-1:30: Lunch in Pyle Center |
| III: 1:30-3:30 |
| Food and agriculture |
Discussant |
|
Fantu Bachewe |
Urban Wage Behavior and Food Price Inflation: The Case of Ethiopia |
Jacob Ricker-Gilbert |
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Jing Cai |
The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households’ Production and Financial Decisions |
Fantu Bachewe |
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Jacob Ricker-Gilbert |
Disrupting demand for commercial seed: Input subsidies in Malawi and Zambia |
Pilar Useche |
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Pilar Useche |
Traditional vs. Modern Production Systems: Nonmarket and Price Considerations of Cacao Producers in Northern Ecuador |
Jing Cai |
| Sex |
|
Dumas Christelle |
"Sex is a gift from God": For whom ? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban |
Niels-Hugo Blunch |
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Niels-Hugo Blunch |
Teenager in Love: Skills, Schooling and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana |
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
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Marco Gonzalez-Navarro |
Effectiveness and Spillovers of Online Sex Education: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombian Public Schools |
Fei Wang |
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Fei Wang |
Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility |
Dumas Christelle |
| Cash Transfers |
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Jennifer Alix-Garcia |
Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Programs of Paymentes for Ecosystem Services |
Richard Akresh |
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Richard Akresh |
Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Condiationality |
Patricia Yanez-Pagans |
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Patricia Yanez-Pagans |
Cash for cooperation? Payments for Ecosystem Services and common property management in Mexico |
Joanna Upton |
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Joanna Upton |
The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Niger |
Jennifer Alix-Garcia |
| IV: 3:45-5:45 |
| Gender |
Discussant |
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Julia Vaillant |
Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar |
Marc F Bellemare |
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Marc F Bellemare |
Why Does Female Genital Cutting Persist in The Gambia? A Cross-Sectional Study |
Jeremy Foltz |
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Jeremy Foltz |
Gender Production Differentials in Africa |
Robyn Meeks |
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Robyn Meeks |
Natural experiments in culture and gender roles: Evidence on spillovers and gender equality promotion |
Julia Vaillant |
| Schooling |
|
Carlos Chiapa |
The schooling repayment hypothesis for private transfers: Evidence from the PROGRESA/Oportunidades experiment |
Robert Garlick |
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Robert Garlick |
How Price Sensitive is Secondary School Enrollment? Evidence from Nationwide Tuition Fee Reforms in South Africa |
Mehtabul Azam |
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Mehtabul Azam |
Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India |
Rene Osorio |
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Rene Osorio |
Birth Registration and the Impact on Educational Attainment |
Carlos Chiapa |
| Conflict/disasters |
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Dominic Parker |
The Unintended Consequences of Conflict Minerals Policies |
Masami Imai |
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Masami Imai |
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Foreign Interest Rate Movements |
Prakarsh Singh |
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Prakarsh Singh |
Concessions and Repression: Can Democratizing Lead to Civil War? |
Yong Suk Lee |
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Yong Suk Lee |
Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations |
Dominic Parker |
| 6:00-6:45: Reception: The Pyle Center |
| 6:45-8:30: Dinner and Keynote Address: the Pyle Center |
| Saturday, April 6 |
| 7:00-8:00: Breakfast in Lowell Center Dining Room |
| V: 8:00-10:00 |
| Trade |
Discussant |
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Aashish Mehta |
Education, Export Diversification and Path-Dependent Development |
Ana Demmert |
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Ana Demmert |
Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China |
Ruohan Wu |
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Ruohan Wu |
Exports, Innovation and Production Growth: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Firm Model with Learning and Entry Costs |
Shushanik Hakobyan |
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Shushanik Hakobyan |
Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and US Trade Policy |
Aashish Mehta |
| Labor |
|
Maria Canon |
Cognitive skills gaps in India: can (late) nutrition ameliorate them? |
Gabriel Martinez |
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Gabriel Martinez |
Workers of heterogeneous ability and fiscal structure: possibilities for fiscal reform in Mexico |
Christophe Nordman |
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Christophe Nordman |
Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar |
Mehtabul Azam |
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Mehtabul Azam |
The Impact of Indian Job Guarantee Scheme on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
Maria Canon |
| Consumption |
|
Tara Kaul |
Measuring Household Response to Food Subsidies: Evidence From India |
Yating Chuang |
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Yating Chuang |
Self Control or Social Control? Peer Effects on Temptation Consumption |
Deepankar Basu |
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Amit Basole |
The Calorie Consumption Puzzle in India: An Empirical Investigation |
Ethan Ligon |
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Ethan Ligon |
Demand for Food Quality |
Tara Kaul |
| VI: 10:15-12:15 |
| Migration |
Discussant |
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Cynthia Kinnan |
Migration, insurance and credit: Evidence from China |
Samuel Bazzi |
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Samuel Bazzi |
Wealth Heterogeneity, Income Shocks, and International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia |
Hillary Caruthers |
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Hillary Caruthers |
Risk Management and Rural to Urban Migration Decisions in Indonesia |
Cynthia Kinnan |
| Political Economy |
|
Anh Tran |
One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime |
Paul Castañeda Dower |
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Paul Castañeda Dower |
Vote Suppression and Insecure Property Rights |
Jenny Guardado R. |
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Jenny Guardado R. |
Sale of Public Offices, Corruption and Long-Term Development: Evidence from Peru. |
Nakul Kumar |
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Nakul Kumar |
Tactical Redistribution in Coalition Politics: Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief |
Anh Tran |
| Assets |
|
Sarah Janzen |
The Impact of Microinsurance on Asset Accumulation and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from a Drought in Kenya |
Rachid Laajaj |
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Rachid Laajaj |
Can Matched Savings Stimulate Asset Accumulation? Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mozambique |
Dylan Fitz |
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Dylan Fitz |
Development Chutes and Ladders: A Joint Impact Evaluation of Asset and Cash Transfers in Brazil |
Salim Araji |
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Salim Araji |
Natural Resources and Human Capital: the Dilemma of the Riches and Disincentives |
Sarah Janzen |
