40th Conference on Development Economics
Online
1 – 3 October 2020
*All timings are in UK Time
Organisers:
David Atkin (MIT, BREAD and CEPR)
Oriana Bandiera (LSE, BREAD and CEPR)
Robin Burgess (LSE, BREAD and CEPR)
Michael Callen (LSE, BREAD and CEPR)
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi, BREAD and CEPR)
Isabela Manelici (Princeton University)
Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin)
Jonathan Weigel (LSE and CEPR)
Thursday 1 October
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TU-_xDR3x7I
Chair: Isabela Manelici (Princeton University)
3:30PM-3:50PM Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? – Suanna Oh, Paris School of Economics (with Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan and Frank Schilbach
3:50PM-4:10PM Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers’ Skills – Kate Orkin, University of Oxford (with Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Neil Rankin)
4:10PM-4:30PM Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools – Christina Brown, University of California, Berkeley (with Tahir Andrabi)
4:30PM-4:40PM Break
4:40pm-5:00PM Can White Elephants Kill? Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development in Peru – Antonella Bancalari, LSE
5:00PM-5:20PM Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the D.R. Congo (Presentation slides) – Gabriel Tourek, MIT (with Pablo Balan, Augustin Bergeron and Jonathan L. Weigel)
5:20PM-5:40PM The Human Side of Structural Transformation – Federico Rossi, University of Warwick (with Tommaso Porzio and Gabriella Santangelo)
5:40PM-5:50PM Break
Chair: Jonathan Weigel (LSE and CEPR)
5:50PM-6:10PM The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality and Development – Alex Armand, Nova School of Business and Economics (with Ivan Kim Taveras)
6:10PM-6:30PM Anticipation and Consumption – Neil Thakral, Brown University (with Linh T. Tô)
6:30PM-6:50PM Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries – Elisa Macchi, University of Zurich
6:50PM-7:00PM Break
7:00PM-7:20PM Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration – Belinda Archibong, Barnard College (with Nonso Obikili)
7:20PM-7:40PM High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China – Melanie Meng Xue, New York University Abu Dhabi
7:40PM-8:00PM Women’s Employment in India: Intra-Household and Intra-Personal Constraints – Madeline McKelway, Stanford King Center on Global Development
Friday 2 October
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s5e59mY81L0
4:00PM-4:50PM The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy – Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago (with Christopher Neilson and Sebastián Otero)
4:50PM-5:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
5:00PM-5:50PM Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications – Kirill Borusyak, UCL and CEPR (with Peter Hull)
5:50PM-6:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
6:00PM-6:50PM Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance – Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago, BREAD and CEPR (with Gustavo Duncan, Benjamin Lessing and Santiago Tobon)
6:50PM-7:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
7:00PM-8:00PM Discussion: Development Economics Research in the Time of COVID
Discussions led by: Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Paula Bustos, Shawn Cole, Marcel Fafchamps, Douglas Gollin, Joe Kaboski, Rocco Macchiavello, Karen Macours, David McKenzie, Ben Olken, Nancy Qian, Tavneet Suri, Christopher Udry and Dean Yang.
Saturday 3 October
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Hantn-qH1AM
4:00PM-4:50PM Monitoring in Target Contracts: Theory and Experiment in Kenyan Public Transit – Gregory Lane, American University (with Erin Kelley and David Schönholzer)
4:50PM-5:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
5:00PM-5:50PM Forced Displacement, Human Capital and Occupational Choice – Sandra Sequeira, LSE and CEPR (with Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou)
5:50PM-6:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
6:00PM-6:50PM Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress – Jie Bai, Harvard University and BREAD (with Maggie Chen, Jin Liu, Daniel Yi Xu)
6:50PM-7:00PM Break/Extra Discussion
7:00PM-7:50PM Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China – Noam Yuchtman, LSE and CEPR (with Martin Beraja and David Y. Yang)
7:50PM-8:00PM Break/Extra Discussion