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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Development and Productivity Workshop

 

Nick Bloom, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Christopher Woodruff, Organizers

 

July 21, 2011

 

Skyline Suites, West Tower

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Wednesday, July 20:

 

 

  

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner in honor of Ernie Berndt, Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Boulevard

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 21:

 

 

  

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 


8:30 am


Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER
Jean Lee, Harvard University
Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Olga Rostapshova, Harvard University
The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya: Evidence from Inventories

 

 


9:20 am


Erica Field and Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER
John Papp, Princeton University
Natalia Rigol, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Term Structure of Debt and Entrepreneurship:
Experimental Evidence from Microfinance


 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 


10:30 am


Antoinette Schoar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
The Importance of Being Nice: Evidence from a Supervisory Training Program in Cambodia

 

 


11:20 am


Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
William Jack, Georgetown University
The Risk Sharing Benefits of Mobile Money

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 


1:15 pm


Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
Andrew Foster, Brown University
Are Indian Farms Too Small? Mechanization, Agency Costs, and Farm Efficiency

 

 


2:05 pm


Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University
Xin Meng, Australian National University
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
Xiaoxue Zhao, Yale University
The General Equilibrium Effects of Chinese Urban Housing Reforms on the Urban Wage Structure
 

 

 

2:55 pm

Break

 

 


3:15 pm


Mark J. Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER
Firm Quality, Productivity, and Capability Among Chinese Exporters

 

 


4:05 pm


Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
When Institutional Reform is Embedded in Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

 

 

4:55 pm

Adjourn