DETAILED SCHEDULE: NEUDC 2014 at BOSTON …sites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/11/NEUDC-2014-detailed-schedule...DETAILED SCHEDULE: NEUDC 2014 at BOSTON UNIVERSITY SATURDAY, 1st NOVEMBER,

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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SESSION 26: WOMEN'S RESOURCES and the HOUSEHOLD

Chair: Rachel Heath

Location: Room 205


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


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


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

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SESSION 29: CORRUPTION, CRIME, and ENFORCEMENT

Chair: Sandip Sukhtankar

Location: Room 211


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Location: Room 211


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


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


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


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

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SESSION 47: FOREIGN AID

Chair: Eric Werker

Location: Room 205


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


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


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


Location: Room 211


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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