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NBER: NBER DEV: New members, Advisory Committee, SI and Fall program meeting
NBER DEV: New members, Advisory Committee, SI and Fall program meeting
Dear DEV Colleagues
I am writing with some updates about the NBER Development Economics program.
First, I would like to welcome our newest Faculty Research Fellows: Emily Breza
(Columbia), Jing Cai (Michigan), Jonas Hjort (Columbia), Simone Schaner
(Dartmouth) and Frank Schilbach (MIT). Congratulations to all of you!
Second, we are continuing to experiment with the structure of our Summer
Institute meeting. The meeting will be held in Cambridge from lunchtime on
Sunday July 24 through lunchtime on Tuesday July 26. We will have two Master
Lectures during the meeting - one by Abhijit Banerjee on Sunday afternoon and
the other by Chris Udry on Tuesday morning. The rest of the program will be
made up of papers contributed in response to our open call. These changes are
intended to facilitate greater interaction and productive exchange among
participants at the meeting and make it an even more profitable and fun event
for everyone.
The program for SI is at the bottom of this email. We had a huge number of
first rate submissions and selecting the program was really tough. Thanks to
Abhijit Banerjee, Pascaline Dupas, Mark Rosenzweig and Daniel Xu for all of
their hard work helping me with this. You should be getting an invitation to
participate in SI from Rob Shannon soon. I verymuch hope you will be able to
join us.
Third, we will have our Fall program meeting on December 9 and 10. The NBER's
Productivity, Innovation and Enterpreneurship group is meeting on Friday Dec 9
and, if it makes good sense from an intellectual point of view, we may link up
and have a joint session with them.
Finally, I would like to thank Dilip Mookherjee and Chris Udry who are stepping
down from the Development Economics Advisory committee. They have served on the
committee since the founding of the program almost four years ago. They, along
with Esther Duflo, Andrew Foster and Chang-Tai Hsieh, the other founding
members of the Advisory committee, have been incredibly helpful in setting the
direction of the program, providing superb counsel and contributing to DEV's
successes. I am extremely grateful to Chris and Dilip. It is a pleasure to
welcome Abhijit Banerjee and Eliana La Ferrara who have graciously agreed to
join the Advisory committee.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can do to make the
Development Economics program more valuable for you.
With best wishes
Duncan
SI Program (24-26 July)
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Abhijit Banerjee
"Rethinking Human Capital"
Michael Carter, Rachid Laajaj, Dean Yang
"Subsidies, Savings and Sustainable Technology Adoption:
Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique"
Discussant: Christopher Udry
Morgan Hardy, Jamie McCasland
"It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of
Technology Diffusion"
Discussant: David Atkin
Supreet Kaur
"Do Enforcement Constraints Prevent Trade?
Evidence on Contracting Failures in Irrigation Markets"
Discussant: Rocco Macchiavello
Rachel M. Heath
"Why do Firms Hire Using Referrals?
Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories"
Discussant: Amanda Pallais
Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert
"Tourism and Economic Development:
Evidence from Mexico's Coastline"
Discussant: Diego Comin
Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero, Erik Snowberg
"A Theory of Experimenters"
Discussant: Thomas Lemieux
Karna Basu, Jonathan Conning
"Committing to Commit: Renegotiation-Proof Contracts and
the Ownership of Banks"
Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee
Cameron Shelton, Yelena Tuzova
"Estimating the Productivity Cost of Crony Capitalism"
Discussant: Ray Fisman
Jacopo Ponticelli, Paula Bustos, Gabriel Garber
"Capital Allocation across Sectors and Space:
Evidence from a Boom in Agriculture"
Discussant: Mark Rosenzweig
Christopher Udry
"The Economic Organization of Households"
Received on Sun May 01 2016 - 09:05:41 EDT
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