8:00 - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
Registration Location: 2nd Floor Entry Hall, 6-8 St.
Mary's Street, Photonics Building
Breakfast Location: 9th Floor Colloquium and 2nd
Floor Atrium
9:00 - 10:40 AM SECTION 1
SESSION 1: FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT, and OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE
Chair: Russell Toth
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
Does Formality Improve Firm Performance: Evidence from a quasi-
experiment in Mexico
Gabriela Aparicio, The George Washington
UniversityYoung
Financial development and occupational choice: Evidence from IndiaRajeev Dehejia, New York University; Nandini
Gupta, Indiana University Toth
The Effect of Formal Banking on Agricultural and Industrial
Growth: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in IndiaNathaniel Young, Boston University Aparicio
Experience Does Matter: Managerial Capital and the Dynamics of
EntrepreneurshipRussell Toth, The University of Sydney Dehejia
SESSION 2: INEQUALITY, POVERTY, and INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
Chair: Jessica Leight
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
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 SystemRuixue Jia, University of California, San Diego Bleakley
Parental education and child health: Evidence from an education
reform in ChinaSamantha 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 BankRawlings
SESSION 3: ECONOMIC GROWTH and PRODUCTIVITY
Chair: Margaret McMillan
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
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 India
Samuel Asher, Oxford University; Paul Novosad,
Dartmouth CollegeMarden
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
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SESSION 4: SPATIAL LABOR MISALLOCATION
Chair: Samuel Bazzi
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
Agricultural Productivity, Factor Reallocation, and Industrial
Production in the Short Run: Evidence from IndiaJonathan Colmer, London School of Economics Fernando
Shackled to the Soil : The Long-Term Effects of Inherited Land on
Labor Mobility and ConsumptionA. Nilesh Fernando, Harvard University Gaduh
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development
Samuel Bazzi, Boston University; Arya Gaduh,
University of Arkansas; Alexander Rothenberg,
RAND Corporation; Maisy Wong, University of
Pennsylvania
Imbert
Short Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from
India
Clément Imbert, Oxford University; John Papp,
Princeton University Colmer
SESSION 5: CORRUPTION and POLITICAL CAPTURE
Chair: Karna Basu
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control
Karna Basu, Hunter College, CUNY; Kaushik
Basu, The World Bank and Cornell University; Tito
Cordella, The World Bank
Litschig
Ruling Parties, Bureaucratic Performance and Service Delivery in
DemocraciesSaad Gulzar, New York University Pomeranz
Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized
Evaluation in Brazil
Stephan Litschig, IAE-CSIC; Yves Zamboni,
Controladoria-Geral da União Basu
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
Gulzar
SESSION 6: CAUSES of CONFLICT
Chair: Jenny Guardado
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
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 MurderThorsten Rogall, IIES, Stockholm Fetzer
Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of
Development
Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan; Laura
Zimmermann, University of GeorgiaGuardado R.
SESSION 7: HEALTH: INFORMATION and LEARNING
Chair: Jessica Cohen
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
The Impact of Packaging and Messaging on Adherence to Malaria
Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in UgandaJessica Cohen, Harvard University Serneels
The Effect of HIV Infection Risk Beliefs on Sexual Behavior:
Scared Straight or Scared to Death?Jason Kerwin, University of Michigan Keskin
Water Quality Awareness and Infant Health: The Role of
Breastfeeding
Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College; Gauri Shastry,
Wellesley College; Helen Willis, Wellesley CollegeKerwin
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
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10:40 - 11:00 AM BREAK
11:00 - 12:40 PM SECTION 2
SESSION 8: AGRICULTURE
Chair: Jenny Aker
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
The Impact of Relaxing Financial Frictions with Frictions in Factor
Markets: Evidence from FarmsAlex Cohen, Yale University
Songsermsaw
as
Your Feedback Matters, To You: Evidence from Extension
Services
Maria Jones, World Bank; Florence Kondylis,
World BankSoldani
Price Information, Inter-Village Networks, and \Bargaining
Spillovers": Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Nicole Hildebrandt, New York University; Yaw
Nyarko, New York University; Giorgia Romagnoli,
New York University; Emilia Soldani, New York
University
Kondylis
Can peers helps improve agricultural productivity?
Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Hope Michelson, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tisorn
Songsermsawas, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Cohen
SESSION 9: BEHAVIOR and DEVELOPMENT: NEW THEORY and EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
Chair: Kelsey Jack
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
Dynamic Loss Aversion, Growth, and DevelopmentSeth Blumberg, University of Chicago; Michael
Kremer, Harvard UniversityRoth
Can Farmers Create Efficient Networks? Experimental Evidence
from Rural India
Stefano Caria, University of Oxford; Marcel
Fafchamps, Stanford University Haushofer
The Cost of Keeping Track Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University Caria
Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects Among the Poor:
Evidence From a Field Experiment.Christopher Roth, University of Oxford Blumberg
SESSION 10: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Chair: Andrew Newman
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
Persistent Impacts of Temporary Demand Shocks: How U.S.
Servicemen Shaped Thailand's Sex IndustryAbel 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 11: MIGRATION: MICRO and MACRO PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Taryn Dinkelman
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
Time Machines
Douglas Gollin, Oxford University; Martina
Kirchberger, Columbia University; David
Lagakos, University of California, San Diego
Larreguy
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 12: MICROFINANCE
Chair: Rajeev Dehejia
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
Microfinance institutions as a platform for global health delivery:
Evidence from a cluster-randomized pilot programAaron Baum, Columbia University Jamison
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
Shim
The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-
Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in
Rural Mexico
Eun-young Shim, University of California, San
DiegoOsman
SESSION 13: CONSEQUENCES of CONFLICT
Chair: Francesco Amodio
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
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 ParthenopeCarreri
Do Natural Resources Influence Who Comes to Power, and How?
An Analysis of Oil Price Shocks, Elections and Conflict in Colombia
Maria Carreri, New York University; Oeindrila
Dube, NYU Amodio
Lynchings, Labour and Cotton in the U.S. South Cornelius Christian, University of Oxford
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SESSION 14: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Jessica Leight
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
Resilience to Early Life Shocks
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan; Parul
Christian; Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, University
of Maryland; Alain Labrique; Jonathan Sugimoto;
Abu Ahmed Shamim; Keith P. West, Jr.
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
Gunnstein-
sson
12:40 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SERVED
Location: 9th Floor Colloquium Room and 2nd Floor Atrium
1:00 - 3:00 PM PLENARY SESSION
Migration, Urbanization, and Development: A Plenary Session
in Honor of John Harris
Speakers:
John Harris, Boston University
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
"Determinants of City Growth in Colombia"
Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford
"Spatial and Sectoral Disparities"
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
"Networks and Misallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap," with Kaivan Munshi
Chair: Andy Newman, Boston University
Location: Room 206
3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK
3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 3
SESSION 15: INFLUENCES on SCHOOLING DECISIONS
Chair: Anjali Adukia
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
Sanitation and Education Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago O'Connell
Parental Health Shocks, Child Labor and Educational Outcomes:
Evidence from TanzaniaShamma Alam, University of Washington Steinberg
Political Inclusion and Aspirations of a Younger Generation:
Identifying the Effects of a National Empowerment Policy
Stephen O'Connell, The Graduate Center,
CUNYAdukia
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
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SESSION 16: FRONTIERS of IMPACT EVALUATION
Chair: Rajeev Dehejia
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Generalizing the Results from Social Experiments: Theory and
EvidenceMichael Gechter, Boston University Dehejia
(Adverse) General Equilibrium Effects of Cash TransfersMichael Christian Lehmann, University of
BrasiliaMilusheva
Effects of Household Recombination on Retrospective Evaluation:
Evidence from the Matlab Health and Family Planning Program
Andrew Foster, Brown University; Sveta
Milusheva, Brown University Lehmann
SESSION 17: ORGANIZATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Chair: Andrew Newman
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
Product diversification in the presence of two types of informality Dennis Becker, Cornell University
Competing for Relationships: Markets and Informal Institutions in
Sierra Leone
Tarek Ghani, University of California, Berkeley;
Tristan Reed, Harvard University Becker
Competition and Efficiency in Imperfect Markets: Evidence from
Rwanda's Coffee Mills
Rocco Macchiavello, Warwick University; Ameet
Morjaria, Harvard UniversityGhani
SESSION 18: PUBLIC GOODS and INFRASTRUCTURE
Chair: Paul Novosad
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
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
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SESSION 19: SAVINGS and FINANCIAL DECISIONS
Chair: Jim Berry
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
Consumer Perceptions and Saving Behavior Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University Berry
Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in
Afghanistan
Joshua Blumenstock, University of Washington;
Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School; Tarek
Ghani, University of California, Berkeley
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
Blumenstock
SESSION 20: INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT and GROWTH
Chair: Horacio Larreguy
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
The Political Economy of Land Institutions, Tenure and Agricultural
ProductivitySabrin Beg, Yale University
Sanchez de la
Sierra
How Much Do Leaders Explain Growth? An Exercise in Growth
Accounting
William 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 21: HEALTH: POLICY and PROVISION
Chair: David Glick
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Okeke
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
Does a ban on informal health providers save lives? Evidence from
MalawiSusan Godlonton, IFPRI; Edward Okeke, RAND Bossuroy
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5:00 - 8:00 PM RECEPTION AND POSTERS
Location: 9th Floor Colloquium Room and Atrium
SESSION 22: POSTERS (details on page 17)
Location: 9th Floor Atrium
7:30 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
Registration Location: 2nd Floor Entry Hall, 6-8 St.
Mary's Street, Photonics Building
Breakfast Location: 9th Floor Colloquium and 2nd
Floor Atrium
8:30 - 10:10 AM SECTION 4
SESSION 23: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INDUSTRIAL POLICY and DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Brian McCaig
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
Trade and Development: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade Reka Juhasz, London School of Economics (LSE) Paz
Export markets and household business performance: Evidence from
Vietnam
Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Laurier University; Nina
Pavcnik, Dartmouth CollegeRotemberg
Intermediate Inputs and Premature Deindustrialization: An Analysis
of the Brazilian CaseLourenco Paz, Syracuse University Juhasz
Competitive Spillovers: Evidence From a Policy Change in India Martin Rotemberg, Harvard University McCaig
SESSION 24: CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of REMITTANCES
Chair: Kate Ambler
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment
among Central American Migrants
Kate Ambler, IFPRI; Diego Aycinena,
Universidad Francisco Marroquin; Dean Yang,
University of Michigan
Narciso
Internal Labor Migration as a Shock-Coping Strategy: Evidence
from a Typhoon
Andre 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 Economics Groeger
Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field
Experiment
Catia Batista, Nova University of Lisbon; Gaia
Narciso, Trinity College Dublin Ambler
SESSION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY and LAND
Chair: Fernando Aragon Sanchez
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
Political Constraints and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land
Allocation Program in Mexico
Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes;
Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University; Juan Riano
Rodriguez, Universidad de los Andes
Qin
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' treaties
Fernando Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser
UniversityRezaee
SUNDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER, 2014
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SESSION 26: WOMEN'S RESOURCES and the HOUSEHOLD
Chair: Rachel Heath
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Increased Labor Market Opportunities for Women and Household
Decision-Making Power: Evidence from the Bangladesh Garment
Industry
Gisella 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
SESSION 27: FERTILITY
Chair: Abhishek Chakravarty
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
Fertility Limits on Local Politicians in IndiaS. Anukriti, Boston College; Abhishek
Chakravarty, University of Essex Jayachandran
Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on
Intrahousehold Outcomes in IndiaReshmaan Hussam, MIT Tseng
Fertility Decline and Missing Women Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University Chakravarty
The Effect of a Natural Disaster on the Incidence of Miscarriages,
Stillbirths and Pregnancy Outcomes
Elaine Liu, University of Houston; Jin-Tan Liu,
National Taiwan University; Tzu-Yin Hazel Tseng,
University of Houston
Hussam
SESSION 28: EDUCATION and HUMAN CAPITAL
Chair: Andrew Zeitlin
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
Assessing Teacher Quality in India Mehtabul Azam, Oklahoma State University Zeitlin
Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in
India
Sonja 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
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SESSION 29: CORRUPTION, CRIME, and ENFORCEMENT
Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
Inside the War on Drugs: Effectiveness and Unintended
Consequences of a Large Illicit Crop Eradication Program in
Colombia
Maria Acevedo, Harvard University Blakeslee
Indian Labor Regulations and the 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 India
David Blakeslee, New York University - Abu
Dhabi; Ram Fishman, George Washington
University
Acevedo
Accountability of Public Officials under Appointments and
Elections: Evidence from IndonesiaPriya Mukherjee, Cornell University Amirapu
10:10 - 10:30 AM BREAK
10:30 - 12:10 PM SECTION 5
SESSION 30: INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Chair: Christian Dippel
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
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 TradeMathias Iwanowsky, IIES, Stockholm University Teshima
Roads, Trade and Urbanization in the Tropics: Theory and Evidence
from the Brazilian AmazonHeitor Pellegrina, Brown University 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 31: TAXES and TRANSFERS: EFFECTS in MARKETS with CAPACITY and CREDIT CONSTRAINTS
Chair: Jessica Goldberg
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
Curbing Leakage in Public Transfer Programs with Biometric
Identification Systems: Evidence from India's Fuel SubsidiesPrabhat 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
The Equilibrium Effects of Income Taxation on Formal and Informal
Labor MarketsHeidi Schramm, University of Virginia Troland
Can Fiscal Transfers Increase Local Revenue Collection? Evidence
From The Philippines
Erin Troland, University of California, San
DiegoSchramm
SESSION 32: SCHOOL CHOICE, COMPETITION, and PERFORMANCE
Chair: Kehinde Ajayi
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
School Competition and Product Differentiation Natalie Bau, Harvard University Bobba
Learning about oneself: the effects of signalling ability on school
choices
Matteo Bobba, Inter-American Development
BankBau
The Effect of the Increasing Demand for Elite Schools on
Stratification
Ricardo Estrada, Paris School of Economics /
European University InstituteHincapie
Do longer school days improve student achievement? Evidence from
Colombia
Diana Hincapie, Inter-American Development
BankEstrada
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SESSION 33: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Chair: Valerie Mueller
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
Does Practice 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: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Chair: Horacio Larreguy
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
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 Booms: Political Outcomes,
Clientelism and Public Goods Provision in Peru*
Stanislao Maldonado, University of California,
BerkeleyBen Yishay
Bureaucrats and Politicians: How Does Electoral Competition Affect
Bureaucratic Performance?Anusha Nath, Boston University Anagol
SESSION 35: INTRAHOUSEHOLD DISTRIBUTION and the EXTENDED FAMILY
Chair: Gabriela Rubio
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Manuela Angelucci, University of Michigan; Robert
Garlick, Duke UniversityRubio
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 MarriagesGabriela Rubio, University of California, Merced Garlick
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SESSION 36: HEALTH: SHOCKS, INSURANCE, and CARE
Chair: Jacob Bor
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
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
MexicoRita 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
India
Ketki Sheth, University of California, Merced Ginja
12:10 - 1:20 PM LUNCH
Location: 9th Floor Colloquium Room and 2nd Floor Atrium
1:20 - 3:00 PM SECTION 6
SESSION 37: ENVIRONMENT and NATURAL RESOURCES
Chair: Sriniketh Nagavarapu
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Christopher Hansman, Columbia University;
Jonas Hjort, Columbia University; Gianmarco Leon,
UPF and Barcelona GSE
Kala
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
Hansman
Agricultural Trade and Depletion of GroundwaterPaul Landefeld, Joint Committee on Taxation;
Sheetal Sekhri, University of VirginiaGuiteras
SESSION 38: DECISIONS: INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE and PEER EFFECTS
Chair: Anja Sautmann
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
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 BehaviorXi Chen, Yale University and IZA; Xiaobo Zhang,
IFPRI and Peking UniversitySchilbach
Alcohol and Self Control - A Field Experiment with Cycle Rickshaw
Pullers in IndiaFrank Schilbach, Harvard University Chen
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SESSION 39: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT I
Chair: Stelios Michalopoulos
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run
Development: Evidence from U.S. CountiesMartin Fiszbein, Brown University Walker
Coexistence, Polarization, and Development: Armenian Legacy in
Modern TurkeySeyhun 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 SavingsSarah Walker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Fiszbein
SESSION 40: RISK and INSURANCE
Chair: Jing Cai
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
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 41: PARENTS and CHILDREN: INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on EDUCATION
Chair: Eric Edmonds
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
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
Can Health Investments Improve Education Outcomes? Evidence
from the Intergenerational Effects of HIV/AIDS Treatment
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware;
Nicholas Wilson, Reed CollegeBerry
Girls' school attendance: A Dynamic discrete choice structural
approachHugo Reis, UCL Lucas
SESSION 42: POLITICS, POLICY and PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Chair: Lakshmi Iyer
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
Poverty Alleviation or Political Calculation? The Political Economy
of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee SchemeAnirvan Chowdhury, Georgetown University Collin
Peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights: experimental
evidence from urban TanzaniaMatthew Collin, Center for Global Development Chowdhury
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
Gutierrez
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SESSION 43: GENDER I
Chair: Abhishek Chakravarty
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
The demographic transition and the position of women: A marriage
market perspectiveV. Bhaskar, University College London Hernandez
Childcare Indivisibility and Maternal Employment
Claudia Martínez, Pontificia Universidad
Católica 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
Republic
Maria Sviatschi, Columbia University Martínez
Guns n' Roses: The Impact of Stable and Secure Female
Employment Opportunities on Violence in Colombia
Sara Hernandez, Massachusetts Institute of
TechnologyBhaskar
3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK
3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 7
SESSION 44: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INVESTMENT and POLICIES
Chair: Dany Bahar
Location: Room 201
Paper Authors Discussants
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of
Nations
Dany Bahar, Harvard / Brookings / IADB; Hillel
Rapoport, Paris School of Economics Romagnolli
Capturing the Value Chain: The Persistence of Trade Policy in China
After WTO Accession
Jason Garred, London School of Economics
(LSE)Bahar
Information Aggregation in Commodity Markets with Storage Giorgia Romagnolli, New York University Garred
SESSION 45: PERSONNEL ECONOMICS and LABOR REGULATION
Chair: Ritam Chaurey
Location: Room 202
Paper Authors Discussants
Labor Regulations and Contract Labor Use: Evidence from Indian
FirmsRitam Chaurey, SUNY Binghamton Davies
Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in
Ghana
Elwyn Davies, University of Oxford / CSAE;
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University Chaurey
Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the
Recruitment of Health WorkersErika Deserranno, London School of Economics Franklin
Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: The Impact of a
Randomized Transport Subsidy in Urban EthiopiaSimon Franklin, Oxford University Deserranno
SESSION 46: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT II
Chair: Stelios Michalopoulos
Location: Room 203
Paper Authors Discussants
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 Lowes
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 DRC
Sara Lowes, Harvard University; Eduardo
Montero, Harvard University Bircan
The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of
Gender Roles: Evidence from the Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeEdoardo Teso, Harvard University
Michalopoulo
s
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SESSION 47: FOREIGN AID
Chair: Eric Werker
Location: Room 205
Paper Authors Discussants
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
outcomesChristopher Kilby, Villanova University Honig
Foreign Aid and Domestic AbsorptionJonathan Temple, University of Bristol; Nicolas Van
de Sijpe, University of SheffieldDykstra
SESSION 48: EARLY-LIFE SHOCKS and INVESTMENTS
Chair: Jim Berry
Location: Room 206
Paper Authors Discussants
The Legacy of Natural Disasters: The Intergenerational Impact of
100 Years of Natural Disasters in Latin America
German Caruso, University of Illinois at Urbana-
ChampaignSpears
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
SESSION 49: NATURAL DISASTERS
Chair: Amir Jina
Location: Room 210
Paper Authors Discussants
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 Lange
Livestock as an Imperfect Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated MarketsSimon Lange, University of Goettingen; Malte
Reimers, University of Goettingen Islam
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SESSION 50: GENDER II
Chair: Abhishek Chakravarty
Location: Room 211
Paper Authors Discussants
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 Inequality
Joseph 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
Local Industrial Shocks, Female Empowerment and Infant Health:
Evidence from Africa's Gold Mining IndustryAnja Tolonen, University of Gothenburg Chakravarty
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Author Poster #
Jacob Bor, Boston University; Jan-Walter De
Neve, Harvard University1
Martin Abel, Harvard University 2
Rawaa Harati, University of Paris Pantheon
Sorbonne; Morgan Hardy, Brown University3
Kevin Croke, World Bank 4
Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan 5
Sebastian Otero, J-PAL; Tomas Rau, Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile6
Nicole Hildebrandt, New York University 7
Yanfang Su, Harvard School of Public Health 8
Vidhya Soundararajan, Cornell University 9
Illuminating the Shadow Economy: Using lights from space to estimate a new measure of
informal economic activity
The Long Run Effects of Early Childhood Deworming on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence
from Uganda
A Social Vaccine? HIV Infection, Fertility, and the Non-Pecuniary Returns to Secondary
Schooling in Botswana
Discrimination in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Online Job Advertisements in South
Africa
Paper
POSTERS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 5:00 - 8:00PM
Location: 9th Floor Atrium
Minimum Wage Effects at Different Enforcement Levels: Evidence from Employment
Surveys in India
Do Informed Consumers Reduce the Price and Prevalence of Counterfeit Drugs? Evidence
from the Antimalarial Market
New Evidence of the Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Drinking and Driving. The Case of
Chile
Rainfall Shocks and Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa and India
Measurement of Health Behaviors from a List Experiment with Application to Intravenous
Infusions and Smoking in China
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