DETAILED SCHEDULE: NEUDC 2014 at BOSTON UNIVERSITY

SATURDAY, 1st NOVEMBER, 2014

8:00 - 9:00 AM BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION Location:

9:00 - 10:40 AM SECTION 1

SESSION 1: HEALTH: INFORMATION and LEARNING Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Learning, Hygiene, and Traditional Medicine Daniel Bennett, University of Chicago Keskin The Impact of Packaging and Messaging on Adherence to Malaria Treatment: Evidence Jessica Cohen, Harvard University Serneels from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College; Gauri Shastry, Water Quality Awareness and Infant Health: The Role of Breastfeeding Wellesley College; Helen Willis, Wellesley Bennett College Andrew Dillon, Michigan State University; Jed Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from Friedman, The World Bank; Pieter Serneels, Cohen malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters University of East Anglia

SESSION 2: SPATIAL LABOR MISALLOCATION Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Samuel Bazzi, Boston University; Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas; Alexander Rothenberg, Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development Imbert RAND Corporation; Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania Agricultural Productivity, Factor Reallocation, and Industrial Production in the Short Run: Jonathan Colmer, London School of Fernando Evidence from India Economics Shackled to the Soil: Inherited Wealth and Labor Misallocation in Rural India A. Nilesh Fernando, Harvard University Gaduh Clément Imbert, Oxford University; John Short Term Migration and Rural Workfare Programs: Evidence from India Colmer Papp, Princeton University

SESSION 3: ECONOMIC GROWTH and PRODUCTIVITY Chair: Location: C

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 Samuel Asher, Oxford University; Paul Digging for Development: Mining Booms and Local Economic Development in India Marden Novosad, Dartmouth College David Lagakos, University of California, San Diego; Benjamin Moll, Princeton University; Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Lessons From U.S. Immigrants Tommaso Porzio, Yale University; Nancy Harari Qian, Yale University; Todd Schoellman, Arizona State University

SESSION 4: CAUSES of CONFLICT Chair: Location: D

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 Andrea Guariso, LICOS - KU Leuven; Thorsten Armed Groups, Civilians and Muddy Roads: The Conduct of Political Mass Murder Fetzer Rogall, IIES, Stockholm Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan; Laura Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development Guardado R. Zimmermann, University of Michigan

Page 1 SESSION 5: CORRUPTION and POLITICAL CAPTURE Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants Karna Basu Kaushik Basu, The World Bank Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control and Cornell University; Tito Cordella, The Gulzar World Bank On the Origins of Political Machines: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan Saad Gulzar, New York University Basu Stephan Litschig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil Pomeranz Yves Zamboni, Controladoria-Geral da União Maria Paula Gerardino, Inter-American Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Development Bank; Stephan Litschig, Litschig Chile Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Dina Pomeranz, Harvard University

SESSION 6: FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT, and OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Gabriela Aparicio, The George Washington Does Formality Improve Firm Performance: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Mexico Young University Rajeev Dehejia, New York University; Nandini Financial development and occupational choice: Evidence from India Toth Gupta, Indiana University Experience Does Matter: Managerial Capital and the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Russell Toth, The University of Sydney Gupta The Effect of Formal Banking on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from a Regression Nathaniel Young, Boston University Aparicio Discontinuity Analysis in India

SESSION 7: INEQUALITY, POVERTY, and INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan; Joseph Jia Wealth Ferrie, Northwestern University Social Mobility and Revolution: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Bleakley Exam System Diego Parental education and child health: Evidence from an education reform in China Samantha Rawlings, University of Reading Sun M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy Dialogue Are the children of uneducated farmers doubly doomed? Farm, non-farm and at Columbia University; Yan Sun, The World Rawlings intergenerational educational mobility in rural China Bank

10:40 - 11:00 AM BREAK

11:00 - 12:40 PM SECTION 2

SESSION 8: MICROFINANCE Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Microfinance institutions as a platform for global health delivery: Evidence from a cluster- Aaron Baum Jamison randomized pilot program Abhijit Banerjee, MIT; Emily Breza, Columbia Does Microfinance Foster Business Growth? The Importance of Entrepreneurial Business School; Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Osman Heterogeneity Institute of Technology; Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University Christopher Blattman, Columbia University; Eric Green, Duke University; Julian Jamison, The returns to cash and microenterprise support among the ultra-poor: A field experiment Baum Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Jeannie Annan, International Rescue Committee Dean Karlan, Yale University; Adam Osman, Follow the Money not the Cash: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Breza Responses to a Liquidity Shock Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

Page 2 SESSION 9: MIGRATION: MICRO and MACRO PERSPECTIVES Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Douglas Gollin, Oxford University; Martina Larreguy Time Machines Kirchberger, University of Oxford; David Arbesu Lagakos, University of California, San Diego Marieke Kleemans, University of California, Migration Choice under Risk and Liquidity Constraints Kirchberger Berkeley Gustavo Fajardo, CEMFI; Emilio Gutierrez, Taking One for the Team: Shocks at Destination and Household's Supply of Migrant Instituto Tecnológico Autônomo de Mexico; Theoharides Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University Banned from the Band: The Effect of Migration Barriers on Origin-Country Labor Market Caroline Theoharides, Amherst College Kleemans Decisions

SESSION 10: AGRICULTURE Chair: Location: C

Paper Authors Discussants Do Financial and Labor Market Frictions Interact to Constrain Farm Size and Productivity? Alex Cohen, Yale University Kutzman Maria Jones, World Bank; Florence Kondylis, Your Feedback Matters, To You: Evidence from Extension Services Nyarko World Bank Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University The effects of communal land certification on land use: Evidence from Mexico of Toronto; Daley Kutzman, University of Cohen California, Berkeley; Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley Price Information, Inter-Village Networks, and \Bargaining Spillovers": Experimental Yaw Nyarko, New York University Kondylis Evidence from Ghana

SESSION 11: CONSEQUENCES of CONFLICT Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants Richard Akresh, University Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; German Caruso, University of GPS Data, War Exposure, and Child Health Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Harsha Christian Thirumurthy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Natural Resources, Conflict and Democracy: An Analysis of the Resource Curse in Maria Carreri, New York University; Di Maio Colombia Oeindrila Dube, NYU Lynchings, Labour and Cotton in the U.S. South Cornelius Christian, University of Oxford Akresh Francesco Amodio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Firm Performance and Input Misallocation in Michele Di Maio, University of Naples Carreri Palestine Parthenope

SESSION 12: INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants The Persistent Effects of Demand Shocks for Sexual Services During the Vietnam War Abel Brodeur, Paris School of Economics Emran Real and Financial Effects of Credit Shocks: Evidence from Medium-Sized Firms in Sebastian Bustos, Harvard University Ferraz Colombia M. Shahe Emran, Initiative for Policy Food Prices and Marketing Intermediaries: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Edible Dialogue at Columbia University; Dilip Bustos Oils Market in Bangladesh Mookherjee, Boston University; Forhad Shilpi, World Bank; Helal Uddin, Dhaka University Claudio Ferraz, PUC-Rio; Frederico Finan, Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics University of California, Berkeley; Dimitri Brodeur Szerman, PUC-Rio and Climate Policy Initiative

Page 3 SESSION 13: BEHAVIOR and DEVELOPMENT: NEW THEORY and EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Dynamic Loss Aversion, Growth, and Development Seth Blumberg, University of Chicago Haushofer Stefano Caria, Oxford University; Marcel Can Farmers Create Efficient Networks? Experimental Evidence from Rural India de Janvry Fafchamps, Stanford University The Cost of Keeping Track Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University Blumberg Jing Cai, University of Michigan; Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley; Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand Caria Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley

SESSION 14: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants Resilience to Early Life Shocks Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan Tan Migration, the financial crisis, and child growth in rural Guatemala John Maluccio, Middlebury College Ross Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota; Phillip Developing Hope: The Impact of International Child Sponsorship on Self-Esteem and Ross, Boston University; Bruce Wydick, Maluccio Aspirations University of San Francisco Chih Ming Tan, University of North Dakota; Sins of the Father: The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on Zhibo Tan, Peking University; Xiaobo Zhang, Adhvaryu Children’s Cognitive Development Peking University and IFPRI

12:40 - 1:00 PM LUNCH SERVED Location:

1:00 - 3:00 PM PLENARY SESSION

Migration, Urbanization, and Development: A Plenary Session in Honor of John Harris

Speakers: Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University

Chair: Andy Newman, Boston University

Location:

3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK

3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 3

SESSION 15: SAVINGS and FINANCIAL DECISIONS Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Consumer Perceptions and Saving Behavior Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University Karlan Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School Quinn James Berry, Cornell University; Dean Karlan, The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana Yale University; Menno Pradhan, Free Ajayi University Amsterdam Uzma Afzal, Lahore School of Economics; Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University; Simon Callen Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan Quinn, University of Oxford; Farah Said, Lahore School of Economics

Page 4 SESSION 16: FRONTIERS of IMPACT EVALUATION Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Rajeev Dehejia, New York University; Cristian From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment Pop-Eleches, Columbia University; Cyrus Samii, Gechter New York University Sensitivity to Unobserved Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Generalizing Results from Michael Gechter, Boston University Dehejia Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence from Two Education Experiments in India Michael Christian Lehmann, University of (Adverse) General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers Milusheva Brasilia Effects of a Fertility and Health Intervention on Household Assets: A Longitudinal Andrew Foster, Brown University; Sveta Lehmann Analysis Using Corrective Weights Milusheva, Brown University

SESSION 17: PUBLIC GOODS and INFRASTRUCTURE Chair: Location: C

Paper Authors Discussants Rubaba Ali, University of Maryland, College Park; Alvaro Barra, The World Bank; Claudia Transportation Infrastructure and Welfare in Nigeria Berg, The George Washington University; Szerman Richard Damania Jason Russ, George Washington University Samuel Asher, Oxford University; Paul Gonzalez- The Employment Effects of Road Construction in Rural India Novosad, Dartmouth College Navarro Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of The Effects of Road Quality on Household Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways Toronto; Tadeja Gracner, University of Asher California, Berkeley; Alexander Rothenberg, RAND Corporation Juliano Assunção, PUC-Rio / CPI-Rio; Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia; Ahmed Electrification, Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil Ali Mobarak, Yale University; Dimitri Szerman, PUC-Rio and Climate Policy Initiative

SESSION 18: INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT and GROWTH Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants Sanchez de la The Political Economy of Land Institutions, Tenure and Agricultural Productivity Sabrin Beg Sierra William Easterly, New York University; Steven How Much Do Leaders Explain Growth? An Exercise in Growth Accounting Qin Pennings, World Bank The determinants of media bias in China Bei Qin, The University of Hong Kong Pennings Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Columbia On the Impact of States: Contract Enforceability and Ethnic Institutions in East Congo Beg University

SESSION 19: ORGANIZATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants Tarek Ghani, University of California, Risk and Relationships: Ice Retailing in the Sierra Leone Fishing Industry Newman Berkeley; Tristan Reed, Harvard University Competition, Efficiency and Trust: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Wet Mills Ameet Morjaria, Harvard University Ghani Patrick Legros, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Integration and Management in Industry Equilibrium Trinh Andrew Newman, Boston University, CEPR How do business practices affect micro and small firms’ performance? Evidence from Long Trinh Morjaria Vietnam

Page 5 SESSION 20: HEALTH: POLICY and PROVISION Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Thomas Bossuroy, World Bank; Clara Performance-Based Incentives to Fight Tuberculosis: Evidence from a Randomized Delavallade, IFPRI; Vincent Pons, Sylvia Experiment in Northern India Massachusetts Institute of Technology Choosing Amongst Health Providers: How Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Long-Term David Glick, Brown University Null Behavior Vivian Hoffmann, IFPRI; Renaud Lapeyre, Does community ownership help or hinder management of a common good? Experimental Innovations for Poverty Action; Clair Null, Glick evidence from Kenya Mathematica Policy Research; Olga Rostapshova, Social Impact Renfu Luo, IGSNRR; Grant Miller, Stanford University; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University; Can Bureaucrats Really be Paid Like CEOs? School Principal Incentives for Anemia Sean Sylvia, Renmin University of China; Delavallade Reduction in Rural China Marcos Vera-Hernandez, University College London

SESSION 21: INFLUENCES on SCHOOLING DECISIONS Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants Parental Health Shocks, Child Labor and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania Shamma Alam, University of Washington Steinberg Sanitation and Education Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago O'Connell Political Empowerment and School Enrollment: Identifying the Effects of a National Social Stephen O'Connell, CUNY Adukia Policy Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Bryce Steinberg, Harvard University; Manisha Alam Human Capital Shah, University of California Los Angeles

5:00 - 8:00 PM RECEPTION AND POSTERS Location:

SESSION 22: POSTERS (details on page 14)

SUNDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER, 2014

7:30 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST Location:

8:30 - 10:10 AM SECTION 4

SESSION 23: POLITICAL ECONOMY and LAND Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Political Constraints and State Capacity: Evidence from a Land Allocation Program in Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Qin Mexico Andes; Horacio Larreguy, Harvard University Nancy Chau, Cornell University; Yu Qin, Networked Leaders in the Shadow of the Market : A Chinese Experiment in Allocating National University of Singapore; Weiwen Fergusson Land Conversion Rights Zhang, Zhejiang University Michael Callen, Harvard Kennedy School; Saad Gulzar, New York University; Arman Rezaee, Aragon Living in Ungoverned Space: Pakistan’s Frontier Crimes Regulation University of California, San Diego; Jacob Sanchez Shapiro, Princeton University Fernando Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser Do better property rights improve local income?: Evidence from First Nations' treaties Rezaee University

SESSION 24: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INDUSTRIAL POLICY and DEVELOPMENT Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Trade and Development: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade Reka Juhasz, LSE Paz International Trade and Household Businesses: Evidence from Vietnam Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Laurier University Rotemberg Intermediate Inputs and Premature Deindustrialization: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case Lourenco Paz, Syracuse University Juhasz Competitive Spillovers: Evidence From a Policy Change in India Martin Rotemberg McCaig

Page 6 SESSION 25: CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES of REMITTANCES Chair: Location: C

Paper Authors Discussants Kate Ambler, IFPRI; Diego Aycinena, The Impact of Fee Discounts on Remittances: A Field Experiment with Migrants from Universidad Francisco Marroquin; Dean Yang, Narciso Central America University of Michigan Andre Groeger, Goethe University Frankfurt; Internal migration as a risk-coping strategy: evidence from a typhoon Molina Millan Yanos Zylberberg, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Teresa Molina Millan, Paris School of Migration, Co-Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua Groeger Economics Catia Batista, Nova University of Lisbon; Gaia Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment Ambler Narciso, Trinity College Dublin

SESSION 26: FERTILITY Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants S. Anukriti, Boston College; Abhishek Fertility Limits on Local Politicians in India Jayachandran Chakravarty, University of Essex Islamic Inheritance Law, Son Preference and Fertility Behavior of Muslim Couples in Eliana Carranza, World Bank Hussam Indonesia Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Reshmaan Hussam, MIT Carranza Outcomes in India Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern Fertility Decline and Missing Women Anukriti University

SESSION 27: CORRUPTION, CRIME, and ENFORCEMENT Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants Inside the War on Drugs: Effectiveness and Unintended Consequences of a Large Illicit Maria Acevedo, Harvard University Blakeslee Crop Eradication Program in Colombia Indian Labor Regulations and the High Cost of Corruption: Evidence from the Firm Size Amrit Amirapu, Boston University; Michael Mukherjee Distribution Gechter, Boston University David Blakeslee, New York University - Abu Weather Shocks, Crime, and Agriculture: Evidence from India Acevedo Dhabi Accountability of Public Officials under Appointments and Elections: Evidence from Priya Mukherjee, Cornell University Amirapu Indonesia

SESSION 28: WOMEN'S RESOURCES and the HOUSEHOLD Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants What’s Yours is Mine, and What’s Mine is Mine: Bargaining Power and Income Carolina Castilla, Colgate University Tewari Concealing between Spouses in India Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Rachel Heath, University of Washington; Xu Kagy from India Tan, University of Washington Globalization and Women’s Health and Intra-Household Bargaining Power: The Case of Gisella Kagy, University of Colorado Heath the Bangladesh Garment Industry Durable Ownership and Time Allocation: Evidence from China's ``Home Appliances to the Ishani Tewari, Yale University; Yabin Wang, Castilla Countryside" Rebate University of California, Santa Cruz

Page 7 SESSION 29: EDUCATION and HUMAN CAPITAL Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants Assessing Teacher Quality in India Mehtabul Azam, Oklahoma State University Zeitlin Sonja Fagernas, University of Sussex; Panu Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India Singh Pelkonen, University of Sussex Emergence and Evolution of Learning Gaps across countries: Linked panel evidence from Abhijeet Singh, University of Oxford Pelkonen Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam Jacobus Cilliers, University of Oxford; Ibrahim Kasirye, Economic Policy Research Centre; Pay for Locally Monitored teacher attendance? A welfare analysis for Ugandan primary Clare Leaver, University of Oxford; Pieter Azam schools Serneels, University of East Anglia; Andrew Zeitlin, Georgetown University

10:10 - 10:30 AM BREAK

10:30 - 12:10 PM SECTION 5

SESSION 30: POLITICAL ECONOMY Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Santosh Anagol, Wharton; Thomas Fujiwara, The Runner-Up Effect Nath Princeton University Andrew Beath, World Bank; Ariel Ben Yishay, University of New South Wales; Giovanna Decentralization, elite capture, and private contributions: Experimental evidence from the D'Adda, Universita' Bocconi; Pauline Grosjean, Maldonado Solomon Islands The University of New South Wales; Roberto Weber, University of Zurich Stanislao Maldonado, University of The Political Effects of Resource Abundance: Evidence from Peru Ben Yishay California, Berkeley Politics and Bureaucrats' Performance: Can Low Political Competition be a Good Thing? Anusha Nath, Boston University Anagol

SESSION 31: INTERNATIONAL TRADE Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Trade Integration and Political Radicalization: German Evidence from the Rise of the East Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Pellegrina and the Fall of theWall Angeles; Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol The Role of Ethnic Networks in Africa: Evidence from Cross-Country Trade Mathias Iwanowsky Teshima Roads, Trade and Urbanization in the Tropics: Theory and Evidence from the Brazilian Heitor Pellegrina Dippel Amazon Yoichi Sugita, Stockholm School of Economics; Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers: Evidence from a Large Trade Kensuke Teshima, Instituto Tecnológico Iwanowsky Liberalization Episode Autónomo de México; Enrique Seira, ITAM

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

Paper Authors Discussants Leakage in fuel subsidy Prabhat Barnwal, Columbia University Goldberg Kathleen Beegle, World Bank; Emanuela The Design of Public Works and the Competing Goals of Investment and Food Security Galasso, The World Bank; Jessica Goldberg, Barnwal University of Maryland Switching Sectors: The Equilibrium Effects of Income Taxation on Labor Markets in Heidi Schramm, University of Virginia Troland Mexico Erin Troland, University of California, San Can Fiscal Transfers Increase Local Revenue Collection? Evidence From The Philippines Schramm Diego

Page 8 SESSION 33: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants Practice Does Not Make Perfect: Understanding Fertilizer Mismanagement in Bangladesh Mahnaz Islam, Harvard University Mueller through Leaf Color Charts Michael Carter, University of California, Davis; Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Rachid Laajaj, Paris School of Economics, Wilkes Mozambique INRA; Dean Yang, University of Michigan Florence Kondylis, World Bank; Valerie Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment Mueller, International Food Policy Research Islam Inst.; Siyao Zhu, World Bank Fiona Wilkes, University of California, Reap What Your Friends Sow: Church Mergers and Technology Adoption in the Upper Berkeley; Andrew Stevens, University of Laajaj Midwest California, Berkeley

SESSION 34: HEALTH: SHOCKS, INSURANCE, and CARE Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants Jacob Bor, Boston University; Till When to Start HIV Treatment: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment Gong Bärnighausen, Harvard University Evaluating a Universal Health Insurance Program: Evidence from Mexico Rita Ginja, Uppsala University Sheth Damien de Walque, The World Bank; William Coping with Risk: The Effects of Shocks on Reproductive Health and Transactional Sex in Dow, University of California, Berkeley; Erick Bor Rural Tanzania Gong, Middlebury College Assessing adverse selection and health care demand in micro health insurance: Evidence Ketki Sheth, University of California, Merced Ginja from a community based insurance model in India

SESSION 35: INTRAHOUSEHOLD DISTRIBUTION and the EXTENDED FAMILY Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Marie Boltz-Laemmel, Paris School of Anticipating Polygyny: How is Household Economics Affected? Economics; Isabelle Chort, PSL, Université LaFave Paris-Dauphine Heterogeneity and Aggregation: Testing for Efficiency in Intra-Household Allocation Robert Garlick, Duke University Rubio Daniel LaFave, Colby College; Duncan Extended Families and Child Well-being Boltz-Laemmel Thomas, Duke University How Love Conquered Marriage: Theory and Evidence on the Disappearance of Arranged Gabriela Rubio, University of California, Garlick Marriages Merced

SESSION 36: SCHOOL CHOICE, COMPETITION, and PERFORMANCE Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants School Competition and Product Differentiation Natalie Bau, Harvard University Bobba Matteo Bobba, Inter-American Development Learning about oneself: the effects of signalling ability on school choices Bau Bank Distributional Effects of Demand Convergence on Admission Outcomes and School Ricardo Estrada, Paris School of Economics Hincapie Stratification Diana Hincapie, Inter-American Development Do longer school days improve student achievement? Evidence from Colombia Estrada Bank

12:10 - 1:20 PM LUNCH Location:

Page 9 1:20 - 3:00 PM SECTION 6

SESSION 37: POLITICS, POLICY and PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights: experimental evidence from urban Matthew Collin, Center for Global Trucco Tanzania Development Political Advertising and Voting Intentions: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Ads Ruben Durante, Sciences Po; Emilio Gutierrez, Seither Viewership Instituto Tecnológico Autônomo de Mexico

Catia Batista, Nova University of Lisbon; Julia Migration, Institutions and Social Networks in Mozambique Seither, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Pedro Durante Vicente, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, BREAD Fixing Broken Windows: The Effect of Government Maintenance Work on Citizens’ Laura Trucco, Harvard University Collin Complaints

SESSION 38: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT I Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Agricultural Diversification and Economic Development: Evidence from U.S. History Martin Fiszbein, Brown University Walker Coexistence, Polarization, and Development: Armenian Legacy in Modern Turkey Seyhun Sakalli, Paris School of Economics Valencia The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South Felipe Valencia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Sakalli America Does the Future Have an Ancient Heart? Experimental Evidence of Imperial Legacies in Sarah Walker, University of Wisconsin, Fiszbein Preferences and Savings Madison

SESSION 39: GENDER I Chair: Location: C

Paper Authors Discussants The demographic transition and the position of women: A marriage market perspective V. Bhaskar, University College London Correa The Size of Local Legislatures and Women’s Political Representation: Evidence from Gabriel Correa, FEA - USP Bhaskar Brazil Claudia Martínez, Universidad de Chile; Childcare Indivisibility and Maternal Employment Marcela Perticara, ILADES-Universidad Alberto Sviatschi Hurtado Long-term Effects of Temporary Labor Demand: Free Trade Zones, Female Education and Maria Sviatschi, Columbia University Martínez Marriage Market Outcomes in the Dominican Republic

SESSION 40: ENVIRONMENT and NATURAL RESOURCES Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Raymond Guiteras, University of Maryland; Sekhri Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention Ahmed Mobarak, Yale University Firms' Response and Unintended Health Consequences of Industrial Regulations Gianmarco Leon, UPF and Barcelona GSE Nyshadham Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan; Namrata Kala, Yale University; Anant The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology Leon Nyshadham, University of Southern California Paul Landefeld, Joint Committee on Taxation; Agricultural Trade and Depletion of Groundwater Guiteras Sheetal Sekhri, University of Virginia

Page 10 SESSION 41: RISK and INSURANCE Chair: Location: E

Paper Authors Discussants The Impact of Contract Design on Insurance Take-up Jing Cai, University of Michigan Jensen Kibrom Hirfrfot, Cornell University; Christopher Barrett, Cornell University; Erin The Subjective Well-being Effects of Imperfect Insurance that Doesn’t Pay Out Vasilaky Lentz, University of Texas at Austin; Birhanu Taddesse, ILRI Addis Ababa Nathaniel Jensen, Cornell University; Andrew How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Mude, International Livestock Research Institute; Hirfrfot Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya Christopher Barrett, Cornell University Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Katya Vasilaky, Columbia University, Earth Cai Insurance Institute

SESSION 42: DECISIONS: INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE and PEER EFFECTS Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Focusing Effect and the Poverty Trap Andrea Canidio, Central European University Carvalho Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources California; Stephan Meier, Columbia Canidio at Payday University; Stephanie Wang, University of Pittsburgh Social Interactions and Stigma Behavior Xi Chen, Yale University and IZA Schilbach Alcohol consumption, self control, and income - A study with rickshaw pullers in India Frank Schilbach, Harvard University Chen

SESSION 43: PARENTS and CHILDREN: INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on EDUCATION Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants The Impact of Mother Literacy and Participation Programs on Child Learning: Evidence Rukmini banerji, Aser Centre; James Berry, Reis from a Randomized Evaluation in India Cornell University; Marc Shotland, J-PAL Old-Age Income Support, Gender Differentials in Human Capital Investment of Children, Alok Kumar, University of Victoria Lucas and Efficiency Do Health Investments Improve Education Outcomes? Evidence from the Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware Kumar Intergenerational Effects of HIV/AIDS Treatment Girls' school attendance: A Dynamic discrete choice structural approach Hugo Reis, UCL Berry

3:00 - 3:20 PM BREAK

3:20 - 5:00 PM SECTION 7

SESSION 44: EARLY-LIFE SHOCKS and INVESTMENTS Chair: Location: A

Paper Authors Discussants Long-run Impact and Intergenerational Transmission of Shocks in Early-Life: Evidence German Caruso, University of Illinois at Coffey from Natural Disasters in Latin America Urbana Champaign Diane Coffey, Princeton University; Reetika Women's status and children's height in India: Evidence from joint rural households Khera, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Molina Dean Spears, Delhi School of Economics Early-Life Conditions, Parental Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Valentina Duque, Columbia University Caruso Violent Conflict Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan; Recovering from Early Life Trauma: Dynamic Substitution between Child Endowments Teresa Molina, University of Southern Duque and Investments California; Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California

Page 11 SESSION 45: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT II Chair: Location: B

Paper Authors Discussants Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University; The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Louis Putterman, Brown University; David Weil, Teso Africa Brown University Sara Lowes, Harvard University; Eduardo Blood Rubber: The Effects of Labor Coercion on Development and Culture in the DRC Nikolova Montero, Harvard University Cagatay Bircan, EBRD; Elena Nikolova, Entrepreneurship, victimization and the historical legacy of war: evidence from Eastern European Bank for Reconstruction and Montero Europe and Central Asia Development The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Edoardo Teso Michalopoulos Evidence from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

SESSION 46: GENDER II Chair: Location: C

Paper Authors Discussants Sonia Bhalotra, University of Essex; Abhishek The price of gold: gold price inflation and son-preferring behaviour in India Chakravarty, University of Essex; Selim Gulesci, Tolonen Bocconi University Joseph Gomes, University of Essex; Sonia Maternal Mortality and Female Life Expectancy: The Importance of Gender Inequality Tang Bhalotra, University of Essex Cross-Country Diffusion of Culture through FDI: A Firm-Level Analysis of Gender Heiwai Tang, Johns Hopkins University Gomes Inequality in China Strike Gold: Mining, Empowerment and Infant Mortality Anja Tolonen, University of Gothenburg Bhalotra

SESSION 47: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INVESTMENT and POLICIES Chair: Location: D

Paper Authors Discussants Dany Bahar, Harvard / Brookings / IADB; Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations Zhu Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics Alan Asprilla, University of Lausanne; Nicolas Berman, Graduate Institute of International and Pricing to market, Policy, and Market Power Garred Development Studies; Olivier Cadot, Université de Lausanne; Melise Jaud, The World Bank Jason Garred, London School of Economics Export Taxes, Industrial Policy and the Value Chain in China After WTO Cadot (LSE) Trade, Migration and Regional Income Differences Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto Bahar

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Paper Authors Discussants Labor Regulations and Contract Labor Use: Evidence from Indian Firms Ritam Chaurey, Columbia University Davies Elwyn Davies, University of Oxford / CSAE; Pledging, Praising and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana Chaurey Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University Earning Expectations, Selection and Retention: Evidence From a Recruitment Experiment Erika Deserranno, London School of Franklin in Uganda Economics Location, Search Costs and Youth Unemployment: The Impact of a Randomized Transport Simon Franklin, Oxford University Deserranno Subsidy in Urban Ethiopia

SESSION 49: FOREIGN AID Chair: Location: F

Paper Authors Discussants Sarah Dykstra, Center for Global Development; Amanda Glassman, Center for Are Vaccines Fungible? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Large International Aid Global Development; Charles Kenny, Center for Van de Sijpe Program Global Development; Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development Navigation by Judgment: Organizational Autonomy and Country Context in the Delivery Daniel Honig, Harvard Kennedy School Kilby of Foreign Aid Assessing the impact of World Bank preparation on project outcomes Christopher Kilby, Villanova University Honig Jonathan Temple, University of Bristol; Nicolas Foreign Aid and Domestic Absorption Dykstra Van de Sijpe, University of Oxford

SESSION 50: NATURAL DISASTERS Chair: Location: G

Paper Authors Discussants Jérémie Gignoux, Paris School of Economics; Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Marta Menendez, University Paris-Dauphine and Jina Indonesia PSL The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Gignoux Evidence from 6,700 cyclones Berkeley; Amir Jina, Columbia University Does network matter after a natural disaster? A study on resource sharing within informal Asadul Islam, Monash University; Chau Reimers network after cyclone AILA Nguyen, Monash University Simon Lange, University of Goettingen; Malte Livestock as an Imperfect Buffer Stock in Poorly Integrated Markets Nguyen Reimers, University of Goettingen

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Paper Author Poster # Product diversification in the presence of two types of informality Dennis Becker, Cornell University 1

Minimum Wage Eects at Dierent Enforcement Levels: Evidence from Employment Surveys in India Vidhya Soundararajan, Cornell University 2

Richard Bluhm, Maastricht University; Denis Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? de Crombrugghe, Maastricht University; Adam 3 Szirmai, United Nations University Information Aggregation in Commodity Markets with Storage Giorgia Romagnoli, New York University 4 Peer Effects on Input Investments, Cash Crop Revenue and Profitability in India Tisorn Songsermsawas 5

Robust Learning and Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from Indian Agriculture Namrata Kala, Yale university 6

Giordano Palloni, The University of Childhood Health and the Wantedness of Male and Female Children 7 Maryland Rainfall Shocks and Early Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa and India Nicole Hildebrandt, New York University 8 Child labor or human capital diversification among siblings? Helene Bie Lilleør, Rockwool Foundation 9 Jacob Bor, Boston University; Jan-Walter De A Social Vaccine? HIV Infection, Fertility, and the Non-Pecuniary Returns to Secondary Schooling in Botswana 10 Neve, Harvard University The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Eun-young Shim, University of California, 11 Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico San Diego Sandro Diez-Amigo, Massachusetts Institute The Impact of College Peers on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile 12 of Technology Assessing Plan B: The Effect of the Morning After Pill on Women and Children Damian Clarke, University of Oxford 13

The Effect of Customer Information on the Price and Quality of Anti-Malarial Drugs Anne Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan 14

Discrimination in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Online Job Advertisements in South Africa Martin Abel, Harvard University 15

The Effect of HIV Infection Risk Beliefs on Sexual Behavior: Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Jason Kerwin, University of Michigan 16

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Cornell University; Beliyou Haile, International Food Policy HIV/AIDS Knowledge, HIV Testing, and Sexual Behavior 17 Research Institute (IFPRI); Taewha Lee, Yonsei University

Guns n' Roses: The Impact of Stable and Secure Female Employment Opportunities on Violence in Colombia Sara Hernandez 18

Sebastian Otero, J-PAL; Tomas Rau, Pontificia New Evidence of the Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Drinking and Driving. The Case of Chile 19 Universidad Catolica de Chile; Elaine Liu, University of Houston; Jin-Tan Liu, The Effect of a Natural Disaster on the Incidence of Miscarriages, Stillbirths and Pregnancy Outcomes National Taiwan University; Tzu-Yin Hazel 20 Tseng, University of Houston Local Political Business Cycles. Evidence from Philippine Municipalities Julien Labonne, Oxford University 21 Poverty Alleviation or Political Calculation? The Political Economy of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee Anirvan Chowdhury, Georgetown University 22 Scheme Susan Godlonton, IFPRI; Edward Okeke, The Effect of a Ban on Traditional Birth Attendants on Child Mortality 23 RAND Illuminating the Shadow Economy: Using lights from space to estimate a new measure of informal economic Rawaa Harati, University of Paris Pantheon 24 activity Sorbonne; Morgan Hardy, Brown University

Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects Among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment. Christopher Roth, University of Oxford 25

The Long Run Effects of Early Childhood Deworming on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence from Uganda Kevin Croke, The World Bank 26

Measurement of Health Behaviors from a List Experiment with Application to Intravenous Infusions and Smoking Yanfang Su, Harvard School of Public Health 27 in China

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