Forty-Sixth BREAD Conference at MIT
12-13 May 2023
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hosted by:
MIT Sloan, MIT Department of Economics, and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Venue Information
The conference will be held at 100 Main Street, Room 276
Dinner will be at the Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, 7th floor
The conference will be livestreamed at this link.
Friday, May 12
8:00 a.m.
Registration Opens
Continental Breakfast
9:15 a.m.
Gender Quotas and Strategic Voters: Experimental Evidence from Chile’s Constitutional Convention
Antonia Paredes-Haz, Yale University
9:35 a.m.
Madeline Duhon, University of California, Berkeley
9:55 a.m.
The Spread of (Mis)Information: A Social Media Experiment in Pakistan
Sarojini Hirshleifer, UC Riverside
Mustafa Naseem, University of Michigan
Agha Ali Raza, Lahore School of Management Sciences
Arman Rezaee, University of California, Davis
10:15 a.m.
Azhar Hussain, London School of Economics
10:35 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.
Mobile Money, Competition and Financial Inclusion
Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Lorenzo Spadavecchia, Bocconi University
11:20 a.m.
Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
Greg Fischer, London School of Economics
Dean Karlan, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Ben N Roth, Harvard Business School
11:40 a.m.
Mechanism Design for Personalized Policy: A Field Experiment Incentivizing Behavior Change
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago
Ariel Zucker, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:15 p.m.
Retrieval Failures in Consumption Smoothing: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Hunger
Ned Augenblick, Stanford University
Kelsey Jack, University of California, Santa Barbara
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley
Felix Masiye, University of Zambia
Nicholas Swanson, University of California, Berkeley
2:15 p.m.
Monitoring Harassment in Organizations
Laura Boudreau, Columbia University
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University
Ada Gonzalez-Torres, Ben-Gurion University
Rachel Heath, University of Washington
2:35 p.m.
Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University
Guadalupe Bedoya, World Bank
Amy Dolinger, World Bank
2:55 p.m.
Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:45 p.m.
Kin-based Institutions and Economic Development
Duman Bahrami-Rad, Bowdoin College
Jonathan Beauchamp, George Mason University
Joseph Henrich, Harvard University
Jonathan Schulz, George Mason University
4:45 p.m.
Cartels, Antitrust Enforcement, and Industry Performance: Evidence from Mexico
Tristan Reed, World Bank
Mariana Pereira López, World Bank
Ana Urrutia Arrieta, World Bank
Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank
6:00 p.m.
Evening Reception & Dinner
Saturday, May 13
8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Technology and State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Illegal Mining in Colombia
Santiago Saavedra, Universidad del Rosario
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m.
Work Rather than Just Cash: Informal Redistribution Among Employers and Workers in Kampala, Uganda
Elisa Macchi, Brown University
Jeremia Stalder, University of Saint Gallen
11:15 a.m.
Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers
Christina Brown, University of Chicago
11:35 a.m.
The Long-Term Effects of Teachers’ Gender Bias
Joan Martinez, University of California, Berkeley
11:55 a.m.
Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees
Abu Siddique, King’s College London
Asad Islam, Monash University
Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development
Tabassum Rahman, University of Melbourne
Tanvir Shatil, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development
12:15 p.m.
Administrative Incentives Impact Crop-Residue Burning and Health in South Asia
Gemma Dipoppa, Brown University
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
12:35 p.m.
Lunch