DETAILED SCHEDULE for NEUDC @ Dartmouth

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 Chih Ming Tan; Clark University Li Childhood Malnutrition: The Case of Famine in Ghana Samuel Ampaabeng; Clark University Saving Lives: Evidence from a Nutrition Program in Stephan Litschig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Singh Ecuador Marian Meller; Pompeu Fabra Spillovers in learning and behavior: Evidence from a Prakarsh Singh; Amherst College Tan nutritional information campaign in urban slums Can caloric needs explain three food consumption Nicholas Li; University of Toronto Litschig puzzles? Evidence from India Shari Eli; University of Toronto

SESSION 2: Schooling Incentives Chair: Richard Akresh, University of Illinois Location: Kemeny 105

Paper Authors Discussants The schooling repayment hypothesis for private Carlos Chiapa; El Colegio de Mexico transfers: Evidence from the Laura Juarez; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Majlesi PROGRESA/Oportunidades experiment México Parental Response to Changes in Return to Education Kaveh Majlesi; Lund University Chiapa for Children: The Case of Mexico Closing the Education Gender Gap: Estimating the Ousman Gajigo; African Development Bank Barham Impact of Girls' Scholarship Program in The Gambia More Schooling and More Learning? Effects of a 3- Tania Barham; University of Colorado, Boulder Year Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua Karen Macours; Paris School of Economics Gajigo after 10 years John Maluccio; Middlebury College

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 Anant Sudarshan; Harvard University / IFMR Abeberese urban Indian households Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from Ama Abeberese; Columbia University Ryan India The Impact of Electricity Sector Restructuring on Coal- Kabir Malik; University of Maryland Sudarshan fired Power Plants in India The Competitive Effects of Transmission Infrastructure Nicholas Ryan; MIT in the Indian Day-Ahead Electricity Market Malik

SESSION 4: Insurance Chair: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants Muthoni Ngatia; J-PAL Africa Social Networks, Financial Literacy and Index Xavier Gine; The World Bank Bauchet Insurance Dean Karlan; Yale University Price and Information in Life Microinsurance Demand: Jonathan Bauchet; Experimental Evidence from Mexico Batsaikhan Identifying Information Asymmetries in Insurance: Experimental Evidence on Crop Insurance from the Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson; Yale University Wang Philippines 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 Michal Bauer; CERGE-EI and Charles University War's Enduring Effects on the Development of Alessandra Cassar; University of San Francisco Maldonado Egalitarian Motivations and In-group Biases Julie Chytilová; Charles University Joseph Henrich; University of British Columbia War and the Political Zeitgeist: Evidence from the Daniel Hicks, University of Oklahoma Bauer History of Female Suffrage Benjamin Crost; University of Colorado Denver Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Joseph Felter; Hoover Institution Conflict Patrick Johnston; RAND Corporation Hicks The Cost of Dissidence: International Commodity Beatriz Maldonado; College of Charleston Crost Prices and Political Unrest in Latin America

SESSION 6: Poverty Persistence Chair: Garance Genicot, Location: Kemeny 007

Paper Authors Discussants Poverty Dynamics in Rural Orissa: Transitions in Assets Magnus Hatlebakk; Chr. Michelsen Institute Azam and Occupations over Generations Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mehtabul Azam; World Bank, IZA Hatlebakk Mobility in India Vipul Bhatt; James Madison University Does Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy Affect Children's Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence From Farhan Majid; UC Riverside Indonesia Genicot Garance Genicot; Georgetown University Measuring Upward Mobility Majid Debraj Ray; New York University

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 Daniel Bennett; University of Chicago The AIDS Epidemic, Antiretroviral Therapy, and Hans-Peter Kohler; University of Pennsylvania Friedman Subjective Mortality Risk Victoria Baranov; University of Chicago The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Victoria Baranov; University of Chicago Capital Investment in Malawi 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 Richard Akresh; University Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability Emilie Bagby; Mathematica Shrestha Damien de Walque; The World Bank Harounan Kazianga; Oklahoma State University How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Alice Mesnard; City University, London Kirchberger Colombia Preferences over leisure and consumption of siblings Martina Kirchberger; University of Oxford Mesnard and intra-household allocation You Get What You Pay For: The Transitory Effects of Maheshwor Shrestha, MIT Transitory Education Support in a Population Akresh Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College Vulnerable to Child Labor

SESSION 9: Infrastructure Chair: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University Location: Kemeny 105

Paper Authors Discussants Access to the North-South Roads and Farm Profits in Slesh Shrestha; University of Michigan Dinkelman Rural Nepal Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development: Remi Jedwab; George Washington University and LSE Shrestha Evidence from Ghanaian Railways Alexander Moradi; Sussex University Can migration reduce benefits of spatial programs? A model of congestion externalities with evidence from Taryn Dinkelman; Dartmouth College Jedwab South Africa

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 Francisca Antman; University of Colorado Ambler Household Resources Kalle Hirvonen; University of Sussex Risk Sharing and Migration in Tanzania Morten Joachim De Weerdt; EDI Don't Tell on Me: Experimental Evidence of Kate Ambler; University of Michigan Antman Asymmetric Information in Transnational Households 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 Sheetal Sekhri; University of Virginia Delivery: Evidence from the Public Distribution System Sukhtankar Sriniketh Nagavarapu; Brown University in India Party Favors: How party politics affects firm growth in Paul Novosad; Harvard University Goldston India Two Commitment Problems Are Better than One: Jacob Goldston; Brown University Sekhri Credit and Local Politics in Rural India Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation Sandip Sukhtankar; Dartmouth College Novosad of Wireless Spectrum in India

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 Kathryn Marshall; California Polytechnic State Aniket countries University The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development Marcella Alsan; NBER Porzio Escaping the Deadly Waters: Role of Capital Markets Kumar Aniket; University of Cambridge Marshall in Accumulating Public and Private Capital Stock Tommaso Porzio; Yale University Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development David Lagakos; Arizona State University Alsan Accounting Benjamin Moll; Nancy Qian; Yale University

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 María José Orraca; Banco de México The effect of publicly provided health insurance on Alejandrina Salcedo; Banco de México Wilson academic performance in Mexico Carlo Alcaraz; Banco de México Daniel Chiquiar; Banco de Mexico HIV Prevention at Scale: Prevention of Mother-to- Child Transmission of HIV and Child Mortality in Nicholas Wilson; Williams College Qin Zambia Risk and evidence of bias in randomized controlled Alexander Eble; Brown University trials 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 Amalavoyal Chari; RAND Dowry Payments in Rural India Annemie Maertens; University of Pittsburgh Dumas Rene Osorio; Inter-American Development Bank Birth Registration and the Impact on Educational Ana Corbacho; Inter-American Development Bank Attainment Steve Brito ; Inter-American Development Bank Chari The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off: Unintended S Anukriti; Columbia University Consequences of Financial Incentives Osorio Sex is a gift from God: For whom? Evidence from the Christelle Dumas; U. of Cergy Pontoise Manila contraceptive ban 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 Dean Spears; Princeton University Menon Incentive in India Elena Gross; University of Göttingen Water Supply and Water handling-Complements or Isabel Guenther; D-GESS Lechtenfeld Substitutes Youdi Schipper; VU University Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Nidhiya Menon; Brandeis University Spears Health in India Elizabeth Brainerd; Brandeis University Why does piped water not reduce diarrhea for children? Tobias Lechtenfeld; University of Göttingen Gross Evidence from urban Yemen

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 Ganesh Seshan; Georgetown University Households Affect Remittance Flows? Ravi The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Yao Pan; The George Washington University Capital Accumulation in China Seshan

SESSION 17: Elections-Political Economy Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants Anh Tran; Indiana University Edmund Malesky; Duke The Economic Impact of Recentralization: A Quasi- University Arbesu Experiment on Abolishing Elected Councils in Vietnam Cuong Nguyen; Wageningen University Pedro Vicente; Nova University of Lisbon Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University Callen Mozambique Ana Vaz; University of Oxford Michael Callen; UC San Diego Do Fair Elections Enhance Government Legitimacy?: Eli Berman; UC San Diego Vicente Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan Clark Gibson; UC San Diego James Long; UC San Diego The Effect of Clientelism on Election and Policy Horacio Alejandro Larreguy Arbesu; (PhD students at) Tran Outcomes: Evidence from Communal Lands in Mexico MIT

SESSION 18: Firms and Capital Chair: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University Location: Kemeny 007

Paper Authors Discussants Family Financing and Productivity Among Small Andrea Szabo; University of Houston Quinn Manufacturing Firms in Ghana Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Initial Simon Quinn; University of Oxford Szabo Results from a Randomised Experiment Marcel Fafchamps; Oxford University Factory Farming: The Impact of Agricultural Output on Samuel Asher; Harvard University Ali Local Economic Activity in India Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency: Evidence from Micro-enterprises Merima Ali; Chr. Michelsen Institute in Ethiopia 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 Andres Moya; UC Davis Monteiro Colombia Armed Conflict, Household Victimization, and Child Olga Shemyakina; Georgia Institute of Technology La Mattina Health in Cote d'Ivoire Camelia Minoiu; International Monetary Fund Armed Conflict and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Giulia La Mattina; Boston University Shemyakina the Rwandan Genocide Drug War and School Achievement: evidence from Rio Joana Monteiro; CID/Harvard de Janeiro's favelas Rudi Rocha; IE-UFRJ Moya

SESSION 20: Microfinance Chair: Garance Genicot, Georgetown University Location: Haldeman 41

Paper Authors Discussants Jonathan de Quidt; London School of Economics Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Thiemo Fetzer; London School of Economics Allen Microfinance Maitreesh Ghatak; Department of Economics Alberto Motta; University of New South Wales Pushkar Maitra; Department of Economics Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance Sandip Mitra; Indian Statistical Institute Gine Dilip Mookherjee; Boston University Sujata Visaria; HKUST Optimal (Partial) Group Liability in Microfinance Treb Allen; Princeton University de Quidt Lending Xavier Gine; The World Bank The Quality of Financial Services: Evidence from an Cristina Martinez; World Bank Audit Study in Mexico 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 Juan Pablo Rud; Royal Holloway, University of Mining, Pollution and Agricultural Productivity: London Macours Evidence from Ghana Fernando Aragon Sanchez; Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change: Historical Evidence Vis Taraz; Yale University Peet from the Indian Monsoon Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Karen Macours; Paris School of Economics Strategies: Experimental evidence with lessons for Patrick Premand; The World Bank Rud climate change adaptation Renos Vakis; The World Bank

SESSION 22: Behavioral Issues in Development Chair: Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeny 108

Paper Authors Discussants Jacobus Erasmus Cilliers; University of Oxford "White Man's Burden?" A Field Experiment on Oeindrila Dube; NYU Laajaj Generosity and Foreigner Presence Bilal Siddiqi; Stanford University Molly Lipscomb; University of Virginia Does credit card spending respond to credit card Amit Bubna; Indian School of Business Dillon statement date? Evidence from India Sumit Agarwal; National University of Singapore Closing the Eyes on a Gloomy Future: Psychological Rachid Laajaj; Paris School of Economics, INRA Cilliers Causes and Economic Consequences Brian Dillon; Harvard University Do the poor, or the impatient, pay more? Evidence Joachim De Weerdt; EDI Lipscomb from consumption diaries in Tanzania Ted O'Donoghue;

SESSION 23: Social Interactions Chair: Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants Uniter or Divider? Religion and Social Cooperation: Arya Gaduh; USC Evidence from Indonesia La Ferrara The social dilemma of microinsurance: A framed field experiment on free-riding and coordination in Berber Kramer; VU University Amsterdam microcredit groups Czura Pay, peek, punish? Strategic default, information acquisition and social sanctions in a microcredit framed Kristina Czura; Goethe University Frankfurt field experiment Kramer Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Eliana La Ferrara; Bocconi University Gaduh Ghana Annamaria Milazzo; Bocconi University

SESSION 24: Trade Chair: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeney 006

Paper Authors Discussants Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and Adam Storeygard; Tufts University Teshima urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa Innovation Responses to Import Competition Leonardo Iacovone; World Bank Hakobyan Mudit Kapoor; Indian School of Business The Impact of Credit Constraints on Exporting Firms: Priya Ranjan; UC-Irvine Iacovone Empirical Evidence from India Jibonayan Raychaudhuri; Department of Economics, UEA Kensuke Teshima; Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Did Trade Crisis Affect Different Exporters México Differently? Case of Mexico 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 Johannes Haushofer; MIT Poverty Raises Levels of the Stress Hormone Cortisol: Joost de Laat, World Bank Lin Evidence from Weather Shocks in Kenya Matthieu Chemin; McGill University The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Educational Attainment: Evidence from Mandatory School Dara Lee; University of Missouri Kagy Vaccination Laws Long Run Impacts of Famine Exposure: A Study of the Gisella Kagy; University of Colorado Lee 1974 - 1975 Bangladesh Famine Does "in utero" Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Ming-Jen Lin; National Taiwan University Elaine Haushofer Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment Liu; University of Houston

SESSION 26: Human Capital and Skill Production Chair: Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University Location: Kemeney 006

Paper Authors Discussants Soham Sahoo; Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; Indian Statistical Institute Schooling? Evidence from India (Delhi) Garlick The production function of cognitive skills: nutrition Florencia Lopez Boo; IDB and caste test gaps Maria Canon; Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis Sahoo Claudia Martinez, University of Chile Micro Entrepreneurship Training and Assets Transfers: Esteban Puentes; University of Chile Short Term Impact on the Poor Jaime Ruiz-Tagle; University of Chile Blunch Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Tracking versus Random Robert Garlick; University of Michigan Assignment Martinez

SESSION 27: POLITICAL ECONOMY Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants Emily Breza; Columbia Business School Skimming Off the Top: The Unintended Consequences Arun Chandrasekhar; Microsoft Research, New Peck of Market Expansion in the Indian Dairy Industry England Ashish Shenoy; MIT Justin Sandefur; Center for Global Development Tessa Bold; IIES Stockholm Interventions & Institutions: Experimental Evidence on Mwangi Kimenyi; Brookings Institution Jia Scaling up Education Reforms in Kenya Germano Mwabu; University of Nairobi Alice Ng'ang'a; Strathmore University 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 Will Masters, Tufts University Meeks Institutional Development in Africa Estefania Santacreu-Vasut; ESSEC Business School and THEMA and Visiting at UC Berkeley, BEHL Language and Gender Socio-Economic Outcomes Masters Amir Shoham; FOX school of Business Temple University Hui Wang; Guanghua School of Management, Peking University The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China Yuyu Chen; Peking University Se Yan; Peking University Santacrreu-Vasut Culture and gender roles: Evidence from a natural Robyn Meeks; University of Michigan Wang experiment in Post-Soviet Central Asia

SESSION 29: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Chair: Xavier Gine, The World Bank Location: Kemeny 007

Paper Authors Discussants Are Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-all-trades? Evidence from Feng Hu; University of Science & Technology Beijing Gine A Return Migration Survey in Rural China Yuyu Chen; Peking University The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households' Jing Cai; University of Michigan Berge Production and Financial decisions Human and financial capital for microenterprise Lars Ivar Berge; Norwegian School of Economics development: Short-term and long-term evidence from (NHH) a field experiment in Tanzania Cai Money or Ideas? A Field Experiment on Constraints to Xavier Gine; The World BankGhazala Mansuri; World Hu Entrepreneurship in Rural Pakistan Bank

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 Dany Jaimovich; Goethe University Frankfurt Fernando networks of Gambian villages The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University Breza Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico Heather Royer; University of California-Santa Barbara The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone- A. Nilesh Fernando; Harvard University Based Agricultural Extension Shawn Cole; Harvard Business School Jaimovich Emily Breza; Columbia Business School Abhijit Banerjee Come Play With Me: Experimental Evidence of Arun Chandrasekhar; Microsoft Research, New Prina Information Diffusion about Rival Goods England Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Matthew Jackson; Stanford University

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 Fei Wang; University of Southern California Kalsi Impact on Fertility The Value of Children: Fertility and Financial Transfers Jaqueline Oliveira; Yale University Salas in China and Indonesia The short-run fertility impact of a disruption in publicly-provided contraceptive supply in the John Michael Ian Salas; University of California, Irvine Oliveira Philippines The Effect of Sex Selection on Female Education Priti Kalsi; University of Colorado at Boulder Wang Outcomes in Taiwan

SESSION 32: EDUCATION DELIVERY Chair: Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware Location: Haldeman 41

Paper Authors Discussants Teacher Labor Markets, School Vouchers and Student Michela Tincani; University College London Kazianga Cognitive Achievement: Evidence from Chile Harounan Kazianga; Oklahoma State University The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from Dan Levy; Harvard University the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Tincani Leigh Linden; The University of Texas at Austin Faso Matt Sloan; Mathematica Policy Research Andrew Zeitlin; Georgetown University Information and collective action in community-based Abigail Barr; University of Nottingham monitoring of schools: Field and lab experimental Frederick Mugisha; Uganda Ministry of Finance, Lucas evidence from Uganda Planning, and Economic Development Pieter Serneels; University of East Anglia Adrienne Lucas; University of Delaware Improving Primary School Quality: Experimental Patrick McEwan; Wellesley College Zeitlin Evidence from Kenya and Uganda Moses Ngware; APHRC Moses Oketch; University of London

SESSION 33: PUBLIC GOODS Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants The Effect of Coercion on Voluntary Contributions: Georgi Boichev; Simon Fraser University Jack Evidence from Ecuador Kelsey Jack; Tufts University Local leadership and the provision of public goods: Field Boichev evidence from Bolivia Maria Recalde; University of Pittburgh Do Peers Increase the Voluntary Contributions of Low Matthieu Chemin; McGill University Contributors to Group Projects? And How? Evidence Blakeslee Joost de Laat; University of Quebec at Montreal from a Field Experiment Political Power, Party Preference, and Public Goods Allocations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a David Blakeslee; Columbia University Chemin Natural Experiment in India

SESSION 34: SAVINGS Chair: Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeny 105

Paper Authors Discussants Sarah Janzen; University of California, Davis Valuing Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Michael Carter; University of California at Davis Traps: A Dynamic Approach Munenobu Ikegami; ILRI Schaner

Savings as Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Field Dina Pomeranz; Harvard University Janzen Experiment among Low-Income Micro-Entrepreneurs in Chile The Effect of Financial Access on Networks: Evidence Margherita Comola; Paris School of Economics Pomeranz from a Field Experiment in Nepal Silvia Prina; Case Western Reserve University The Cost of Convenience? Transaction Costs, Simone Schaner; Dartmouth College Comola Bargaining Power, and Savings Account Use in Kenya

SESSION 35: AGRICULTURE Chair: Jenny Aker, Tufts University Location: Kemeny 007

Paper Authors Discussants Willingess to pay for index based crop microinsurance Janani Ramasubramanian; University of Sussex in India Tjernstrom Emilia Tjernstrom; University of California, Davis Investing in Small-Farm Productivity: Impact Dynamics Michael Carter; University of California at Davis Ramasubramanian and Heterogeneity in Nicaragua Patricia Toledo; Ohio University Vivian Hoffmann; University of Maryland A Market for Lemons: Maize in Kenya Walker Samuel Mutiga; Cornell University Elizabeth Walker; Harvard University Encouraging the adoption of nitrogen-fixing trees: A B. Kelsey Jack; Tufts University Hoffmann field experiment in Zambia Paulina Oliva; University of California at Santa Barbara Samuel Bell; Cornell University

SESSION 36: LABOR MARKETS Chair: Daniel Keniston, Yale University Location: Kemeney 006

Paper Authors Discussants Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Daniel LaFave; Colby College Gutierrez Agricultural Labor Markets Duncan Thomas; Duke University Illness Shocks, Implicit Contracts and Labor Outcomes Federico Gutierrez; Vanderbilt University LaFave in Mexico Jeremy Magruder; UC-Berkeley Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence Lori Beaman; Northwestern University Guiteras from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi Niall Keleher; Innovations for Poverty Action Incentives, Productivity and Selection in Labor Raymond Guiteras; University of Maryland Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi 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 Hisaki Kono; Institute of Developing Economies Device? : Experimental Evidence from Vietnam Hoel Does HIV Increase the Risk of Spousal Violence in Yoo-Mi Chin; Missouri University of Science and Fenske sub-Saharan Africa? Technology African polygamy: Past and present James Fenske; University of Oxford Chin Heterogeneous Models of the Household: Highlighting Jessica Hoel; University of Michigan Kono the Difference between Mean and Modal Behavior

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 Andrew Dustan; University of California, Berkeley Admission: Academic Opportunity and Dropout Risk in Elisabeth Sadoulet; University of California at Berkeley Pugatch Mexico City Alain de Janvry; University of California at Berkeley

Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in Todd Pugatch; Oregon State University; IZA Dustan South Africa Returns to College Quality: Prestige, Peers, and College Steven Simpson; Columbia University Majors Sen Anindya Sen; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Peer Effects in Graduate Education: Evidence from Prodyumna Goutam; Indian Institute of Management Simpson India Bangalore Chirantan Chatterjee; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

SESSION 39: TAXES AND CORRUPTION Chair: Daniel Keniston, Yale University Location: Kemeney 008

Paper Authors Discussants The Welfare Cost of Lawlessness: Evidence from Thiemo Fetzer; London School of Economics Keniston Somali Piracy Monitoring and its Interaction with Punishment in Tax Gabriela Aparicio; The George Washington University Enforcement: Evidence from a Regression Aparicio M. Shahe Emran; George Washington University Discontinuity Design Daniel Keniston; Yale Crime, Punishment and Monitoring: Deterring Drunken Esther Duflo; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fetzer Driving in India Abhijit Banerjee; MIT Nina Singh; Rajasthan Police

SESSION 40: Gender Chair: Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College Location: Kemeny 105

Paper Authors Discussants Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; Indian Statistical Institute Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education (Delhi) in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Milazzo Farzana Afridi; Indian Statistical Institute Guarantee Scheme (Delhi) Soham Sahoo; ISI Delhi Why Are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Annamaria Milazzo; Bocconi University Maternal Survival in India Liu Elaine Liu; University of Houston Lena Edlund; Columbia University Mukhopadhyay Beggar-Thy-Women: Domestic Reponses to Foreign Bride Jin-Tan Liu; Department of Economics, National Competition, the case of Taiwan Taiwan University Carlos Chiapa; El Colegio de Mexico Migration, Sex Ratios and Violent Crime: Evidence Jesus VIejo; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios from Mexico's Municipalities 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 Kyle Emerick; UC Berkeley Health Rural Mexico To Share is To Keep: Politicians, Property Rights and Rafael Santos Villagran; Yale Emerick Firm Ownership in Post-Apartheid South Africa Reallocating wealth? The impact of village-level land Jessica Leight; MIT Villagran reallocations in China Women's Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Rachel Heath; University of Washington and the World Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Leight Bank Violence

SESSION 42: TARGETING AND TRANSFERS Chair: Jenny Aker, Tufts University Location: Kemeney 006

Paper Authors Discussants Motivating Knowledge Agents: Financial Incentives Erlend Berg; University of Oxford Ngo versus Social Proximity The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Public Education Expenditures: A Political Economy Fernanda Estevan; University of Ottawa Aker Approach TVs, Toilets, and Thresholds: Measuring Household Diana Lee Ngo; UC Berkeley Wealth Comparably Using an Asset-based Index Estevan How do In-Kind Transfers Fare? Testing the Impacts of Cash Jenny Aker; Tufts University versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo Berg

SESSION 43: Immigrant and Adult Labor Chair: Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College Location: Haldeman 031

Paper Authors Discussants Jose Tessada; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile More Hands, More Power? The Impact of Immigration Carolina Gonzalez Velosa; University of Maryland on Farming and Technology Choices in US Agriculture Jeanne Lafortune; Pontificia Universidad Católica de in Early 20th Century Chile Guintella Why Does Immigrant Health Deteriorate? An Osea Giuntella; Boston University Intergenerational Perspective Tessada The Economic Consequences of Excess Men: Evidence Xiaobo Zhang; IFPRI from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan Dai The Impact of Young Cohort Size on Adult Educational Upgrading: Evidence from Family Planning Policies in Tianran Dai; Brown University China Zhang

3:40 PM ADJOURN