Sponsored by: The Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)
Friday, May 12th
12:00-1:00 pm
Registration and Lunch
1:00-2:00 pm
Effects of Migration on Rural Labor Markets
Agha Ali Akram, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
2:00-3:00 pm
Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets
Taryn Dinkelman, Grace Kumchulesi, Martine Mariotti
3:00-3:30 pm
Session Break / Coffee & Tea
3:30-4:30 pm
Estimating Household Welfare from Disaggregate Expenditures
Ethan Ligon
4:30-5:30 pm
On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply?
Erica Fied, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore
5:30-6:00 pm
Session Break / Wine & Cheese
6:00-7:30 pm
Panel on Getting Published in Development Economics featuring
Esther Duflo (MIT), Andrew Foster (Brown), Penny Goldberg (Yale), Imran Rasul (University College London) and Debraj Ray (NYU)
7:30-9:00 pm
Reception / Dinner
Saturday, May 13th
8:00-8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30-9:30 am
The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire
Guo Xu
9:30-10:00 am
Session Break / Coffee & Tea
10:00-11:00 am
Reservations and the Politics of Fear
Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois
11:00-12:00 pm
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja, Selcuk Ozyurt, Niharika Singh
12:00-12:15 pm
Boxed Lunch
12:15-1:15 pm
Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs:A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya
David McKenzie and Susana Puerto
The Scientific Organizers of the Conference are Pascaline Dupas (Stanford), Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford), Fred Finan (Berkeley), Jon Robinson (UC Santa Cruz) and Elizabeth Sadoulet (Berkeley).