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	NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
	SI 2016 Development Economics
	Abhijit Banerjee, Pascaline Dupas, Mark Rosenzweig, Duncan Thomas and Daniel Xu, Organizers
	July 24-26, 2016
	Royal Sonesta Hotel Longfellow Room 40 Edwin Land Boulevard Cambridge, Massachusetts
	PROGRAM
Sunday, July 24
12:00 n		Lunch
1:00 pm		Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Master Lecture: Rethinking Human Capital
2:30 pm		Break
3:00 pm		Michael Carter, University of California at Davis and NBER Rachid Laajaj, Paris School of Economics Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER Subsidies, Savings and Sustainable Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Discussant: Christopher Udry, Yale University and NBER
4:15 pm		Morgan L. Hardy, Brown University Jamie L. McCasland, University of California at Berkeley It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion Discussant: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:30 pm		Adjourn
Monday, July 25
7:30 am		Coffee and Pastries
8:00 am		Supreet Kaur, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Barriers to Contracting in Village Economies: A Test for Enforcement Constraints Discussant: Rocco Macchiavello, University of Warwick
9:15 am		Rachel M. Heath, University of Washington, Seattle Why do Firms Hire using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
10:30 am		Break
10:45 am		Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline Discussant: Diego Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
12:00 n		Lunch
1:15 pm		Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University Sergio Montero, California Institute of Technology Erik Snowberg, California Institute of Technology and NBER A Theory of Experimenters Discussant: Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia and NBER
2:30 pm		Cameron A. Shelton, Claremont McKenna College Yelena Tuzova, MUFG Union Bank Estimating the Productivity Cost of Crony Capitalism Discussant: Ray Fisman, Boston University and NBER
3:45 pm		Break
4:00 pm		Karna Basu, Hunter College, CUNY Jonathan Conning, Hunter College, CUNY Breakable Commitments: Present-bias, Client Protection and Bank Ownership Forms Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:15 pm		Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26
8:00 am		Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am		Jacopo Ponticelli, University of Chicago Paula Bustos, CEMFI Gabriel Garber, Central Bank of Brazil Capital Allocation Across Regions, Sectors and Firms: Evidence from a Commodity Boom in Brazil Discussant: Mark Rosenweig, Yale University and NBER
9:45 am		Break
10:15 am		Christopher Udry, Yale University and NBER
		Master Lecture: The Economic Organization of Households
12:00 n		Lunch and Adjourn