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Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference
Dickey Center for International Understanding 
6048  Haldeman Center
Dartmouth College 
Hanover, NH 03755-3529
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Email: neudc.2012@Dartmouth.EDU
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Schedule

November 3-4, 2012

 

SATURDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2012

8:00 - 9:00 AM

BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 - 10:40 AM

SECTION 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 1:

Food & Nutrition

 

Chair: Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Long-Term Cognitive Consequences of Early Childhood Malnutrition: The Case of Famine in Ghana

Chih Ming Tan; Clark University

Samuel Ampaabeng; Clark University

Li

 

Saving Lives: Evidence from a Nutrition Program in Ecuador

Stephan Litschig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Marian Meller; Pompeu Fabra

Singh

 

Spillovers in learning and behavior: Evidence from a nutritional information campaign in urban slums

Prakarsh Singh; Amherst College

Tan

 

Can caloric needs explain three food consumption puzzles? Evidence from India

Nicholas Li; University of Toronto

Shari Eli; University of Toronto

Litschig

 

 

 

 

SESSION 2:

Schooling Incentives

 

Chair: Richard Akresh, University of Illinois

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The schooling repayment hypothesis for private transfers: Evidence from the PROGRESA/Oportunidades experiment

Carlos Chiapa; El Colegio de Mexico

Laura Juarez; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Majlesi

 

Parental Response to Changes in Return to Education for Children: The Case of Mexico

Kaveh Majlesi; Lund University

Chiapa

 

Closing the Education Gender Gap: Estimating the Impact of Girls' Scholarship Program in The Gambia

Ousman Gajigo; African Development Bank

Barham

 

More Schooling and More Learning? Effects of a 3-Year Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua after 10 years

Tania Barham; University of Colorado, Boulder

Karen Macours; Paris School of Economics

John Maluccio; Middlebury College

Gajigo

 

 

 

 

SESSION 3:

Electricity

 

Chair: Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Money for Nothing: Using peer comparisons and financial incentives to reduce electricity demand in urban Indian households

Anant Sudarshan; Harvard University / IFMR

Abeberese

 

Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Ama Abeberese; Columbia University

Ryan

 

The Impact of Electricity Sector Restructuring on Coal-fired Power Plants in India

Kabir Malik; University of Maryland

Sudarshan

 

The Competitive Effects of Transmission Infrastructure in the Indian Day-Ahead Electricity Market

Nicholas Ryan; MIT

Malik

 

 

 

 

SESSION 4:

Insurance

 

Chair: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Social Networks, Financial Literacy and Index Insurance

Muthoni Ngatia; J-PAL Africa

Xavier Gine; The World Bank

Dean Karlan; Yale University

Bauchet

 

Price and Information in Life Microinsurance Demand:   Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Jonathan Bauchet; New York University

Batsaikhan

 

Identifying Information Asymmetries in Insurance: Experimental Evidence on Crop Insurance from the Philippines

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson; Yale University

Wang

 

Endogenous Insurance and Informal Relationships

Xiao Yu Wang; MIT

Gunnsteinsson

 

 

 

 

SESSION 5:

Conflict - Political Economy

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

War's Enduring Effects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-group Biases

Michal Bauer; CERGE-EI and Charles University

Alessandra Cassar; University of San Francisco

Julie Chytilová; Charles University

Joseph Henrich; University of British Columbia

Maldonado

 

War and the Political Zeitgeist: Evidence from the History of Female Suffrage

Daniel Hicks, University of Oklahoma

Bauer

 

Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

Benjamin Crost; University of Colorado Denver

Joseph Felter; Hoover Institution

Patrick Johnston; RAND Corporation

Hicks

 

The Cost of Dissidence: International Commodity Prices and Political Unrest in Latin America

Beatriz Maldonado; College of Charleston

Crost

 

 

 

 

SESSION 6:

Poverty Persistence

 

Chair: Garance Genicot, Georgetown University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Poverty Dynamics in Rural Orissa: Transitions in Assets and Occupations over Generations

Magnus Hatlebakk; Chr. Michelsen Institute

Azam

 

Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India

Mehtabul Azam; World Bank, IZA

Vipul Bhatt; James Madison University

Hatlebakk

 

Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children's Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Indonesia

Farhan Majid; UC Riverside

Genicot

 

Measuring Upward Mobility

Garance Genicot; Georgetown University

Debraj Ray; New York University

Majid

 

 

 

 

10:40 - 11:00 AM

BREAK

 

 

11:00 - 12:40 PM

SECTION 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 7:

HIV/AIDS

 

Chair: Erick Gong, Middlebury College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

HIV Treatment and Labor Supply in Rural South Africa

Jacob Bor; Harvard University, Public Health

Baranov

 

The AIDS Epidemic, Antiretroviral Therapy, and Subjective Mortality Risk

Daniel Bennett; University of Chicago

Hans-Peter Kohler; University of Pennsylvania

Victoria Baranov; University of Chicago

Friedman

 

The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi

Victoria Baranov; University of Chicago

Hans-Peter Kohler; University of Pennsylvania

Bor

 

Antiretroviral drug access and behavior change

Willa Friedman; UC Berkeley

Bennett

 

 

 

 

SESSION 8:

Child Labor

 

Chair: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability

Richard Akresh; University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Emilie Bagby; Mathematica

Damien de Walque; The World Bank

Harounan Kazianga; Oklahoma State University

Shrestha

 

How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia

Alice Mesnard; City University, London

Kirchberger

 

Preferences over leisure and consumption of siblings and intra-household allocation

Martina Kirchberger; University of Oxford

Mesnard

 

You Get What You Pay For: The Transitory Effects of Transitory Education Support in a Population Vulnerable to Child Labor

Maheshwor Shrestha, MIT

Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College

Akresh

 

 

 

 

SESSION 9:

Infrastructure

 

Chair: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Access to the North-South Roads and Farm Profits in Rural Nepal

Slesh Shrestha; University of Michigan

Dinkelman

 

Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development: Evidence from Ghanaian Railways

Remi Jedwab; George Washington University and LSE

Alexander Moradi; Sussex University

Shrestha

 

Can migration reduce benefits of spatial programs? A model of congestion externalities with evidence from South Africa

Taryn Dinkelman; Dartmouth College

Jedwab

 

 

 

 

SESSION 10:

Risk Sharing in Migration

 

Chair: Randy Akee, Tufts University

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

International Migration, Household Decision-Making, and Gender Discrimination in the Allocation of Household Resources

Francisca Antman; University of Colorado

Ambler

 

Risk Sharing and Migration in Tanzania

Kalle Hirvonen; University of Sussex

Joachim De Weerdt; EDI

Morten

 

Don't Tell on Me: Experimental Evidence of Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households

Kate Ambler; University of Michigan

Antman

 

Migration and Risk Sharing in Village India

Melanie Morten; Yale

Hirvonen

 

 

 

 

SESSION 11:

Political Economy - India

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Informal Monitoring Mechanisms in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Public Distribution System in India

Sheetal Sekhri; University of Virginia

Sriniketh Nagavarapu; Brown University

Sukhtankar

 

Party Favors: How party politics affects firm growth in India

Paul Novosad; Harvard University

Goldston

 

Two Commitment Problems Are Better than One: Credit and Local Politics in Rural India

Jacob Goldston; Brown University

Sekhri

 

Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation of Wireless Spectrum in India

Sandip Sukhtankar; Dartmouth College

Novosad

 

 

 

 

SESSION 12:

Growth and Development

 

Chair: James Feyrer, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Factor payment shares in a large cross-section of countries

Kathryn Marshall; California Polytechnic State University

Aniket

 

The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development

Marcella Alsan; NBER

Porzio

 

Escaping the Deadly Waters: Role of Capital Markets in Accumulating Public and Private Capital Stock

Kumar Aniket; University of Cambridge

Marshall

 

Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

Tommaso Porzio; Yale University

David Lagakos; Arizona State University

Benjamin Moll; Princeton University

Nancy Qian; Yale University

Alsan

 

 

 

 

12:40 - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 - 3:40 PM

SECTION 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 13:

Health Care Delivery

 

Chair: Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The effect of publicly provided health insurance on academic performance in Mexico

María José Orraca; Banco de México

Alejandrina Salcedo; Banco de México

Carlo Alcaraz; Banco de México

Daniel Chiquiar; Banco de Mexico

Wilson

 

HIV Prevention at Scale: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Child Mortality in Zambia

Nicholas Wilson; Williams College

Qin

 

Risk and evidence of bias in randomized controlled trials

Alexander Eble; Brown University

Peter Boone; Effective Intervention

Orraca

 

More Weibo Use, Fewer Bad Drugs

Bei Qin; IIES, Stockholm University

Eble

 

 

 

 

SESSION 14:

Children

 

Chair: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Learning your Child's Price: Evidence from Anticipated Dowry Payments in Rural India

Amalavoyal Chari; RAND

Annemie Maertens; University of Pittsburgh

Dumas

 

Birth Registration and the Impact on Educational Attainment

Rene Osorio; Inter-American Development Bank

Ana Corbacho; Inter-American Development Bank

Steve Brito ; Inter-American Development Bank

Chari

 

The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives

S Anukriti; Columbia University

Osorio

 

Sex is a gift from God: For whom? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban

Christelle Dumas; U. of Cergy Pontoise

Anukriti

 

 

 

 

SESSION 15:

Water & Sanitation

 

Chair: Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Effects of Rural Sanitation on Infant Mortality and Human Capital: Evidence from a Local Governance Incentive in India

Dean Spears; Princeton University

Menon

 

Water Supply and Water handling-Complements or Substitutes

Elena Gross; University of Göttingen

Isabel Guenther; D-GESS

Youdi Schipper; VU University

Lechtenfeld

 

Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Nidhiya Menon; Brandeis University

Elizabeth Brainerd; Brandeis University

Spears

 

Why does piped water not reduce diarrhea for children? Evidence from urban Yemen

Tobias Lechtenfeld; University of Göttingen

Gross

 

 

 

 

SESSION 16:

Migration and Remittances

 

Chair: Randy Akee, Tufts University

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Impact of NREGS on Urbanization in India

Shamika Ravi; Indian School of Business

Pan

 

Does Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households Affect Remittance Flows?

Ganesh Seshan; Georgetown University

Ravi

 

The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China

Yao Pan; The George Washington University

Seshan

 

 

 

 

SESSION 17:

Elections-Political Economy

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Economic Impact of Recentralization: A Quasi-Experiment on Abolishing Elected Councils in Vietnam

Anh Tran; Indiana University   Edmund Malesky; Duke University

Cuong Nguyen; Wageningen University

Arbesu

 

Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

Pedro Vicente; Nova University of Lisbon

Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University

Ana Vaz; University of Oxford

Callen

 

Do Fair Elections Enhance Government Legitimacy?: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Michael Callen; UC San Diego

Eli Berman; UC San Diego

Clark Gibson; UC San Diego

James Long; UC San Diego

Vicente

 

The Effect of Clientelism on Election and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Communal Lands in Mexico

Horacio Alejandro Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) MIT

Tran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 18:

Firms and Capital

 

Chair: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Family Financing and Productivity Among Small Manufacturing Firms in Ghana

Andrea Szabo; University of Houston

Quinn

 

Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Initial Results from a Randomised Experiment

Simon Quinn; University of Oxford

Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University

Szabo

 

Factory Farming: The Impact of Agricultural Output on Local Economic Activity in India

Samuel Asher; Harvard University

Ali

 

Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency: Evidence from Micro-enterprises in Ethiopia

Merima Ali; Chr. Michelsen Institute

Asher

 

 

 

 

3:40 - 4:00 PM

BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:00 - 5:40 PM

SECTION 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 19:

Consequences of Conflict and Crime

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Violence, Emotional Distress, and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes Among the Displaced Population in Colombia

Andres Moya; UC Davis

Monteiro

 

Armed Conflict, Household Victimization, and Child Health in Cote d'Ivoire

Olga Shemyakina; Georgia Institute of Technology

Camelia Minoiu; International Monetary Fund

La Mattina

 

Armed Conflict and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide

Giulia La Mattina; Boston University

Shemyakina

 

Drug War and School Achievement: evidence from Rio de Janeiro's favelas

Joana Monteiro; CID/Harvard

Rudi Rocha; IE-UFRJ

Moya

 

 

 

 

SESSION 20:

Microfinance

 

Chair: Garance Genicot, Georgetown University

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance

Jonathan de Quidt; London School of Economics

Thiemo Fetzer; London School of Economics

Maitreesh Ghatak; Department of Economics

Allen

 

Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance

Alberto Motta; University of New South Wales

Pushkar Maitra; Department of Economics

Sandip Mitra; Indian Statistical Institute

Dilip Mookherjee; Boston University

Sujata Visaria; HKUST

Gine

 

Optimal (Partial) Group Liability in Microfinance Lending

Treb Allen; Princeton University

de Quidt

 

The Quality of Financial Services: Evidence from an Audit Study in Mexico

Xavier Gine; The World Bank

Cristina Martinez; World Bank

Rafael Mazer; CGAP

Motta

 

 

 

 

SESSION 21:

Environment

 

Chair: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Environment and Long Term Health

Evan Peet; Duke University

Taraz

 

Mining, Pollution and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Ghana

Juan Pablo Rud; Royal Holloway, University of London

Fernando Aragon Sanchez; Simon Fraser University

Macours

 

Adaptation to Climate Change: Historical Evidence from the Indian Monsoon

Vis Taraz; Yale University

Peet

 

Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation

Karen Macours; Paris School of Economics

Patrick Premand; The World Bank

Renos Vakis; The World Bank

Rud

 

 

 

 

SESSION 22:

Behavioral Issues in Development

 

Chair: Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

"White Man's Burden?" A Field Experiment on Generosity and Foreigner Presence

Jacobus Erasmus Cilliers; University of Oxford

Oeindrila Dube; NYU

Bilal Siddiqi; Stanford University

Laajaj

 

Does credit card spending respond to credit card statement date?   Evidence from India

Molly Lipscomb; University of Virginia

Amit Bubna; Indian School of Business

Sumit Agarwal; National University of Singapore

Dillon

 

Closing the Eyes on a Gloomy Future: Psychological Causes and Economic Consequences

Rachid Laajaj; Paris School of Economics, INRA

Cilliers

 

Do the poor, or the impatient, pay more? Evidence from consumption diaries in Tanzania

Brian Dillon; Harvard University

Joachim De Weerdt; EDI

Ted O'Donoghue; Cornell University

Lipscomb

 

 

 

 

SESSION 23:

Social Interactions

 

Chair: Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Uniter or Divider? Religion and Social Cooperation: Evidence from Indonesia

Arya Gaduh; USC

La Ferrara

 

The social dilemma of microinsurance: A framed field experiment on free-riding and coordination in microcredit groups

Berber Kramer; VU University Amsterdam

Czura

 

Pay, peek, punish? Strategic default, information acquisition and social sanctions in a microcredit framed field experiment

Kristina Czura; Goethe University Frankfurt

Kramer

 

Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

Eliana La Ferrara; Bocconi University

Annamaria Milazzo; Bocconi University

Gaduh

 

 

 

 

SESSION 24:

Trade

 

Chair: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Adam Storeygard; Tufts University

Teshima

 

Innovation Responses to Import Competition

Leonardo Iacovone; World Bank

Hakobyan

 

The Impact of Credit Constraints on Exporting Firms: Empirical Evidence from India

Mudit Kapoor; Indian School of Business

Priya Ranjan; UC-Irvine

Jibonayan Raychaudhuri; Department of Economics, UEA

Iacovone

 

Did Trade Crisis Affect Different Exporters Differently? Case of Mexico

Kensuke Teshima; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Rahul Giri; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Storeygard

 

 

 

 

6:00 - 9:00 PM

DINNER

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2010

8:00 - 9:00 AM

BREAKFAST

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 - 10:40 AM

SECTION 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 25:

Early Childhood Development

 

Chair: John Maluccio, Middlebury College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Poverty Raises Levels of the Stress Hormone Cortisol: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Kenya

Johannes Haushofer; MIT

Joost de Laat, World Bank

Matthieu Chemin; McGill University

Lin

 

The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Mandatory School Vaccination Laws

Dara Lee; University of Missouri

Kagy

 

Long Run Impacts of Famine Exposure: A Study of the 1974 - 1975 Bangladesh Famine

Gisella Kagy; University of Colorado

Lee

 

Does "in utero" Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

Ming-Jen Lin; National Taiwan University       Elaine Liu; University of Houston

Haushofer

 

 

 

 

SESSION 26:

Human Capital and Skill Production

 

Chair: Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India

Soham Sahoo; Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)

Garlick

 

The production function of cognitive skills: nutrition and caste test gaps

Florencia Lopez Boo; IDB

Maria Canon; Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis

Sahoo

 

Micro Entrepreneurship Training and Assets Transfers: Short Term Impact on the Poor

Claudia Martinez, University of Chile

Esteban Puentes; University of Chile

Jaime Ruiz-Tagle; University of Chile

Blunch

 

Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Tracking versus Random Assignment

Robert Garlick; University of Michigan

Martinez

 

 

 

 

SESSION 27:

Political Economy

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Skimming Off the Top: The Unintended Consequences of Market Expansion in the Indian Dairy Industry

Emily Breza; Columbia Business School

Arun Chandrasekhar; Microsoft Research, New England

Ashish Shenoy; MIT

Peck

 

Interventions & Institutions: Experimental Evidence on Scaling up Education Reforms in Kenya

Justin Sandefur; Center for Global Development

Tessa Bold; IIES Stockholm

Mwangi Kimenyi; Brookings Institution

Germano Mwabu; University of Nairobi

Alice Ng'ang'a; Strathmore University

Jia

 

Who Gets the Saudi Crude Discount?

Jennifer Peck; MIT

Sandefur

 

Pollution for Promotion

Ruixue Jia; Stockholm University

Breza

 

 

 

 

SESSION 28:

Institutions

 

Chair: Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Disease Control, Demographic Change, and Institutional Development in Africa

Will Masters, Tufts University

Meeks

 

Language and Gender Socio-Economic Outcomes

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut; ESSEC Business School and THEMA and Visiting at UC Berkeley, BEHL

Amir Shoham; FOX school of Business Temple University

Masters

 

The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China

Hui Wang; Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Yuyu Chen; Peking University

Se Yan; Peking University

Santacrreu-Vasut

 

Culture and gender roles: Evidence from a natural experiment in   Post-Soviet Central Asia

Robyn Meeks; University of Michigan

Wang

 

 

 

 

SESSION 29:

Entrepreneurship

 

Chair: Xavier Gine, The World Bank

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Are Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-all-trades? Evidence from A Return Migration Survey in Rural China

Feng Hu; University of Science & Technology Beijing

Yuyu Chen; Peking University

Gine

 

The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households' Production and Financial decisions

Jing Cai; University of Michigan

Berge

 

Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Short-term and long-term evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania

Lars Ivar Berge; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

Cai

 

Money or Ideas? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan

Xavier Gine; The World BankGhazala Mansuri; World Bank

Hu

 

 

 

 

SESSION 30:

Information and Social Networks

 

Chair: Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Missing links, missing markets: Internal exchanges, reciprocity and external connections in the economic networks of Gambian villages

Dany Jaimovich; Goethe University Frankfurt

Fernando

 

The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico

Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University

Heather Royer; University of California-Santa Barbara

Breza

 

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

A. Nilesh Fernando; Harvard University

Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School

Jaimovich

 

Come Play With Me: Experimental Evidence of Information Diffusion about Rival Goods

Emily Breza; Columbia Business School

Abhijit Banerjee

Arun Chandrasekhar; Microsoft Research, New England

Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Matthew Jackson; Stanford University

Prina

 

 

 

 

10:40 - 11:00 AM

BREAK

 

 

11:00 - 12:40 PM

SECTION 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 31:

Fertility

 

Chair: Xi Chen, Yale University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility

Fei Wang; University of Southern California

Kalsi

 

The Value of Children: Fertility and Financial Transfers in China and Indonesia

Jaqueline Oliveira; Yale University

Salas

 

The short-run fertility impact of a disruption in publicly-provided contraceptive supply in the Philippines

John Michael Ian Salas; University of California, Irvine

Oliveira

 

The Effect of Sex Selection on Female Education Outcomes in Taiwan

Priti Kalsi; University of Colorado at Boulder

Wang

 

 

 

 

SESSION 32:

Education Delivery

 

Chair: Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Teacher Labor Markets, School Vouchers and Student Cognitive Achievement: Evidence from Chile

Michela Tincani; University College London

Kazianga

 

The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga; Oklahoma State University

Dan Levy; Harvard University

Leigh Linden; The University of Texas at Austin

Matt Sloan; Mathematica Policy Research

Tincani

 

Information and collective action in community-based monitoring of schools: Field and lab experimental evidence from Uganda

Andrew Zeitlin; Georgetown University

Abigail Barr; University of Nottingham

Frederick Mugisha; Uganda Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development

Pieter Serneels; University of East Anglia

Lucas

 

Improving Primary School Quality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya and Uganda

Adrienne Lucas; University of Delaware

Patrick McEwan; Wellesley College

Moses Ngware; APHRC

Moses Oketch; University of London

Zeitlin

 

 

 

 

SESSION 33:

Public Goods

 

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Effect of Coercion on Voluntary Contributions: Evidence from Ecuador

Georgi Boichev; Simon Fraser University

Jack

 

Local leadership and the provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia

Kelsey Jack; Tufts University

Maria Recalde; University of Pittburgh

Boichev

 

Do Peers Increase the Voluntary Contributions of Low Contributors to Group Projects? And How? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Matthieu Chemin; McGill University

Joost de Laat; University of Quebec at Montreal

Blakeslee

 

Political Power, Party Preference, and Public Goods Allocations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India

David Blakeslee; Columbia University

Chemin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 34:

Savings

 

Chair: Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Valuing Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: A Dynamic Approach

Sarah Janzen; University of California, Davis

Michael Carter; University of California at Davis

Munenobu Ikegami; ILRI

Schaner

 

Savings as Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment among Low-Income Micro-Entrepreneurs in Chile

Dina Pomeranz; Harvard University

Janzen

 

The Effect of Financial Access on Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nepal

Margherita Comola; Paris School of Economics

Silvia Prina; Case Western Reserve University

Pomeranz

 

The Cost of Convenience? Transaction Costs, Bargaining Power, and Savings Account Use in Kenya

Simone Schaner; Dartmouth College

Comola

 

 

 

 

SESSION 35:

Agriculture

 

Chair: Jenny Aker, Tufts University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Willingess to pay for index based crop microinsurance in India

Janani Ramasubramanian; University of Sussex

Tjernstrom

 

Investing in Small-Farm Productivity: Impact Dynamics and Heterogeneity in Nicaragua

Emilia Tjernstrom; University of California, Davis

Michael Carter; University of California at Davis

Patricia Toledo; Ohio University

Ramasubramanian

 

A Market for Lemons: Maize in Kenya

Vivian Hoffmann; University of Maryland

Samuel Mutiga; Cornell University

Walker

 

Encouraging the adoption of nitrogen-fixing trees: A field experiment in Zambia

Elizabeth Walker; Harvard University

B. Kelsey Jack; Tufts University

Paulina Oliva; University of California at Santa Barbara

Samuel Bell; Cornell University

Hoffmann

 

 

 

 

SESSION 36:

Labor Markets

 

Chair: Daniel Keniston, Yale University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Agricultural Labor Markets

Daniel LaFave; Colby College

Duncan Thomas; Duke University

Gutierrez

 

Illness Shocks, Implicit Contracts and Labor Outcomes in Mexico

Federico Gutierrez; Vanderbilt University

LaFave

 

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi

Jeremy Magruder; UC-Berkeley

Lori Beaman; Northwestern University

Niall Keleher; Innovations for Poverty Action

Guiteras

 

Incentives, Productivity and Selection in Labor Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Raymond Guiteras; University of Maryland

B. Kelsey Jack; Tufts University

Magruder

 

 

 

 

12:40 - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 - 3:40 PM

SECTION 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

SESSION 37:

Marriage

 

Chair: Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Does Marriage Work as a Savings Commitment Device? : Experimental Evidence from Vietnam

Hisaki Kono; Institute of Developing Economies

Hoel

 

Does HIV Increase the Risk of Spousal Violence in sub-Saharan Africa?

Yoo-Mi Chin; Missouri University of Science and Technology

Fenske

 

African polygamy: Past and present

James Fenske; University of Oxford

Chin

 

Heterogeneous Models of the Household: Highlighting the Difference between Mean and Modal Behavior

Jessica Hoel; University of Michigan

Kono

 

 

 

 

SESSION 38:

Secondary and Tertiary Education

 

Chair: Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Benefits and Hazards of Elite High School Admission: Academic Opportunity and Dropout Risk in Mexico City

Andrew Dustan; University of California, Berkeley

Elisabeth Sadoulet; University of California at Berkeley

Alain de Janvry; University of California at Berkeley

Pugatch

 

Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa

Todd Pugatch; Oregon State University; IZA

Dustan

 

Returns to College Quality: Prestige, Peers, and College Majors

Steven Simpson; Columbia University

Sen

 

Peer Effects in Graduate Education: Evidence from India

Anindya Sen; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Prodyumna Goutam; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Chirantan Chatterjee; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Simpson

 

 

 

 

SESSION 39:

Taxes and Corruption

 

Chair: Daniel Keniston, Yale University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

The Welfare Cost of Lawlessness: Evidence from Somali Piracy

Thiemo Fetzer; London School of Economics

Keniston

 

Monitoring and its Interaction with Punishment in Tax Enforcement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Gabriela Aparicio; The George Washington University

M. Shahe Emran; George Washington University

Aparicio

 

Crime, Punishment and Monitoring: Deterring Drunken Driving in India

Daniel Keniston; Yale

Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abhijit Banerjee; MIT

Nina Singh; Rajasthan Police

Fetzer

 

 

 

 

SESSION 40:

Gender

 

Chair: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)

Farzana Afridi; Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)                     Soham Sahoo; ISI Delhi

Milazzo

 

Why Are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Maternal Survival in India

Annamaria Milazzo; Bocconi University

Liu

 

Beggar-Thy-Women: Domestic Reponses to Foreign Bride Competition, the case of Taiwan

Elaine Liu; University of Houston

Lena Edlund; Columbia University

Jin-Tan Liu; Department of Economics, National Taiwan University

Mukhopadhyay

 

Migration, Sex Ratios and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico's Municipalities

Carlos Chiapa; El Colegio de Mexico

Jesus VIejo; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Chen

 

 

 

 

SESSION 41:

Property Rights

 

Chair: Rachel Heath, University of Washington

 

 

 

Location: Kemeny 007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Certified to Migrate: Property Rights and Migration in Rural Mexico

Kyle Emerick; UC Berkeley

Health

 

To Share is To Keep: Politicians, Property Rights and Firm Ownership in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Rafael Santos Villagran; Yale

Emerick

 

Reallocating wealth? The impact of village-level land reallocations in China

Jessica Leight; MIT

Villagran

 

Women's Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence

Rachel Heath; University of Washington and the World Bank

Leight

 

 

 

 

SESSION 42:

Targeting and Transfers

 

Chair: Jenny Aker, Tufts University

 

 

 

Location: Kemeney 006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

Motivating Knowledge Agents: Financial Incentives versus Social Proximity

Erlend Berg; University of Oxford

Ngo

 

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Public Education Expenditures: A Political Economy Approach

Fernanda Estevan; University of Ottawa

Aker

 

TVs, Toilets, and Thresholds: Measuring Household Wealth Comparably Using an Asset-based Index

Diana Lee Ngo; UC Berkeley

Estevan

 

How do In-Kind Transfers Fare? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jenny Aker; Tufts University

Berg

 

 

 

 

SESSION 43:

Immigrant and Adult Labor

 

Chair: Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College

 

 

 

Location: Haldeman 031

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper

Authors

Discussants

 

More Hands, More Power? The Impact of Immigration on Farming and Technology Choices in US Agriculture in Early 20th Century

Jose Tessada; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Carolina Gonzalez Velosa; University of Maryland

Jeanne Lafortune; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Guintella

 

Why Does Immigrant Health Deteriorate? An Intergenerational Perspective

Osea Giuntella; Boston University

Tessada

 

The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

Xiaobo Zhang; IFPRI

Dai

 

The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Family Planning Policies in China

Tianran Dai; Brown University

Zhang

 

 

 

 

3:40 PM

ADJOURN

 

 

Last Updated: 10/16/13