13th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development December 18-20, 2017 Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Papers Accepted for Presentation 1. Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia): "Can For-Profit Business Alleviate Extreme Poverty in Developing Countries?" 2. Nicolas Gravel (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, Delhi), Edward Levavasseur (GREQAM, Aix-Marseille University) & Patrick Moyes (GRETHA, University of Bordeaux): "Evaluating Education Systems" 3. V Bhaskar (University of Texas at Austin) & Caroline Thomas (University of Texas at Austin): "The design of credit information systems" 4. Lata Gangadharan (Monash University), Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) & Joseph Vecci (University of Gothenburg): "The fairer sex? Women leaders and the strategic response to the social environment" 5. Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna) & Santanu Roy (Southern Methodist University): "Regulating False Disclosure" 6. Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon), Andrea Giusto (University of Dalhousie) & Jayanta Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology): "Growth in a Graying Economy" 7. Diva Dhar (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business) & Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University): "Can Gender Attitudes be Changed? Evidence from a School-based Experiment in India" 8. "Shesadri Banerjee (MIDS, Chennai), Parantap Basu (Durham University), Chetan Ghate (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Pawan Gopalakrishnan (Reserve Bank of India) & Sargam Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "A Monetary Business Cycle for India" 9. Brishti Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "A double-edged sword: credit market imperfections, stereotyping, and education subsidies" 10. Megha Patnaik (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "The Impact of Credit Shocks: Micro versus Small Firms" 11. Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne), Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex), Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich) & Joanna Maselko (University of North Carolina): "Maternal depression, women's financial empowerment and parenting decisions- evidence from a large RCT" 12. "Senjuti Patra (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) & Arka Roy Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Impact of Education Loans on Higher Education: The Indian Experience" 13. Laura Zimmermann (University of Georgia): "Inside the Black Box of Early- life Shocks on Later-Life Outcomes - Evidence from Indonesia" 14. Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego), Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics) & Alejandro Ganimian (New York University): "Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology- Aided Instruction in India" 15. Youjin Hahn (Yonsei University, South Korea), Asad Islam (Monash University) Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University) & Yves Zenou (Monash University): "Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?" 16. Deepti Goel (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi) & Bidisha Barooah (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation): "Identifying an Effective Teacher in Public Schools in Delhi" 17. Dimple Kukreja (Toulouse School of Economics): "Education and Female Empowerment in Intra-household Resource Allocation Framework" 18. Elisa Rizzo (Université Catholique de Louvain): "Education and Crime in India: a District Level Analysis" 19. Gaurav Datt (Monash University) & Liang Choon Wang (Monash University): "Schooling and learning deficits: a simple unified measurement framework" 20. Jorge M. Aguero (University of Connecticut), Maithili Ramachandran (University of California, Riverside): "The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed" 21. Upasak Das (University of Pennsylvania) & Karan Singhal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Gender differences in mathematics performance: Evidence from Rural India" 22. James B. Ang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Per G. Fredriksson (University of Louisville) & Satyendra Kumar Gupta (Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak): "Soil Quality and Colonization" 23. Sowmya Dhanaraj (Madras School of Economics) Christy Mariya Paul (Madras School of Economics) & Smit Gade (Good Business Lab): "Household income dynamics and investment in children: Evidence from India" 24. Swati Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Amaresh Dubey (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Migration, Gender and Intergenerational Transmission of Education" 2 25. Catalina Franco (Universidad del Rosario) & Meera Mahadevan (University of Michigan): "Behavioral Dynamics in Transitions from College to the Workforce" 26. Prerna Dewan (Columbia University), Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) & Arka Roy Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Gender Peer Effect in High Schools: Evidence from India" 27. Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business), Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut) & Raghav Rakesh (Indian School of Business): "The Returns to High School Major Choice in a High STEM Economy" 28. Kaushal Kishore (Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak): "Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential regimes: A case for unilateral commitment" 29. Pubali Chakraborty (The Ohio State University): "Inefficiencies due to skill choice" 30. Salonkara Chaudhuri (University of Calcutta) & Sarbajit Chaudhuri (University of Calcutta): "FDI and Credit Market Reform in a Developing Economy: Could these be Alternative Policies?" 31. Sovik Mukherjee (Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata) & Vivekananda Mukherjee (Jadavpur University): "Tax Incidence of Two Sided Monopoly Platforms" 32. Rittwik Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta), Srobonti Chattopadhyay (Vidyasagar College for Women, Kolkata) & Tarun Kabiraj (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "Spillover and R&D Incentives under Incomplete Information in a Duopoly Industry" 33. Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan & NBER), James Fenske (University of Warwick), Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego) & Anant Nyshadham (Boston College): "Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa" 34. Alex Armand (University of Navarra), Paul Atwell (University of Navarra) & Joseph Flavian Gomes (University of Navarra): "The Reach of Radio: Defection Messaging and Armed Group Behavior" 35. Guilhem Cassan (University of Namur) & Lore Vandewalle (Graduate Institute, Geneva): "Identities and public policies: Unintended effects of political reservations for women in India" 36. Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Arka Roy Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) & Komal Sahai (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Whose Education Matters? An Analysis of Inter Caste Marriages in India" 3 37. Subrata Kumar Ritadhi (Reserve Bank of India) & Abhay Aneja (University of California, Berkeley): "Identity Politics, Targeted Redistribution and Private Investment: Evidence from India's Silent Revolution" 38. Anwesha Banerjee (Aix-Marseille University) & Nicolas Gravel (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, Delhi): "Voluntary contribution to a public good under uncertainty and heterogeneous beliefs" 39. Mridu Prabal Goswami (IGIDR), Manipushpak Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) & Debapriya Sen (Ryerson University): "A characterization of lexicographic preferences" 40. Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): "Limited Foresight Equilibrium" 41. Kuntal Banerjee (Florida Atlantic University) & Tapan Mitra (Cornell University): "On Wold's Sufficiency Approach to Representation of Preferences" 42. Mihir Bhattacharya (Aix-Marseille University), Saptarshi Mukherjee (IIT, Delhi) & Ruhi Sonal (IIT Delhi): "Attention and framing: Stochastic choice rules" 43. Rupali Sharma (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "kth Best Quasi-Transitive Rationalizability of Choice Functions" 44. Santanu Gupta (XLRI, Xavier School of Management), Baridhi Malakar (Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology) & Sanjay Sinha (Goldman Sachs): "Voting Paradoxes in Four Candidate Elections" 45. Srijita Ghosh (New York University): "Multidimensional and Selective Attention" 46. Thierry Marchant (Ghent University): "Utilitarianism without individual utilities" 47. Manipushpak Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Indrajit Ray (Cardiff University) & Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "Any outcome is an interior equilibrium in a market" 48. R Ahalya (IIT, Delhi) & Sourabh Bikas Paul (IIT, Delhi): "Identification and characterization of middle class in India and its comparison with other economic classes" 49. Jisu Yoon (Pharmerit GmbH) & Atika Pasha (University of Mannheim): "An alternative strategy to identify deprivations in multidimensional poverty: A partial least squares approach" 50. Chandan Singha (Hindu College, University of Delhi): "Analysing Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures by Farmers in Darjeeling District, India" 4 51. Hisaki Kono (Kyoto University), Yutaka Arimoto (Hitotsubashi University), Tsilavo Ralandison (Kyoto University), Takeshi Sakurai (University of Tokyo) & Kazushi Takahashi (Sophia University): "T.B.A. (To Be Arbitraged)? Extensive and Intensive Margin in Rice Trading in Madagascar" 52. Michael Gechter (The Pennsylvania State University) & Nick Tsivanidis (University of Chicago Booth): "The Effect of Slums on Urban Equity and