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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 Development Economics

Duncan Thomas, Mark Rosenzweig, and Nina Pavcnik, Organizers

July 24-25, 2014

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Longfellow Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 23:

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 24

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


David Atkin, Yale University and NBER
Azam Chaudhry, Lahore School of Economics
Shamyla Chaudry, Lahore School of Economics
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER
Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Discussant: Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University and NBER


9:30 am


Anant Nyshadham, University of Southern California
Learning about Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand

Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
Jaqueline Oliveira, Clemson University
Migration, Roads and Labor Market Integration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City

Discussant: Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College and NBER


12:00 m


Lunch


1:15 pm


A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and NBER
Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Discussant: Supreet Kaur, Columbia University and NBER


2:15 on


Xavier Gine, The World Bank
Hanan Jacoby, The World Bank
Markets, Contracts, and Uncertainty: A Structural Model of a Groundwater Economy

Discussant: Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER


3:15 pm


Break


3:45 pm


Maria A. Arias, University of Chicago
Ana Ibanez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Andres Zambrano, Universidad de los Andes
Agricultural Production Amid Conflict: The Effects of Shocks, Uncertainty, and Governance of Non-State Armed Actors

Discussant: Chris Blattman, Yale University


4:45 pm


Mark Dean, New York University
Anja Sautmann, Brown University
Credit Constraints and the Measurement of Time Preferences

Discussant: Aprajit Mahajan, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER


5:45 pm


Adjourn


Friday, July 25


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, IIM Calcutta
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Yale University and NBER
Nina Singh, Rajasthan Police
Organizational Innovation in a Large Government Bureaucracy: Evidence from Randomized Experiments with the Rajasthan Police

Discussant: Frederico Finan, University of California at Berkeley and NBER


9:30 am


Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development

Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER
Sergei Guriev, New Economic School
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
The Economy of People's Republic of China from 1953

Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER


12:00 m


Lunch


1:15 pm


Rafael Dix Carneiro, Duke University
Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence from 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Discussant: Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER


2:15 pm


Paula Bustos, CREI
Bruno Caprettini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jacopo Ponticelli, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence from Brazil. .

Discussant: Francisco J. Buera, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER


3:15 pm


Break


3:45 pm


Garth Frazer, University of Toronto
Imports and Skill Utilization

Discussant:
Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER


4:45 pm


Adjourn