BREAD Conference on Development

May 2-3, 2025
(Spring)

Princeton University, Princeton NJ (USA)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
BREAD Conference on Development Economics

(OPTIONAL) THURSDAY, MAY 1

5:15 PM -6:30 PM Book talk by Karthik Muralidharan: Accelerating India’s Development: A Roadmap for Effective Governance

7 PM DRINKS (details TBA)

FRIDAY, MAY 2

8:30 AM – 9AM: BREAKFAST

9AM – 12PM:  BOARD MEETING  // JUNIOR SESSION  (15-min talks)

9:00 – 9:17 AM Why do Governments Overpromise and Underdeliver? Evidence from India’s National Clean Air Programme (Archana Dhinakar Bala, Martin Mattsson, Sagita Vyas)

9:18 – 9:35 AM All in the Family: Kinship Pressure and Firm-Worker Matching (Nicholas Swanson)

9:35 – 9:52 AM Should I Stay or Should I Go? Strategic Responses to Improve College Admission Chances (Carolina Concha-Arriagada)

9:53 – 10:10 AM Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes (Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, Davide Viviano)

10:10 – 10:50 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:50 – 11:07 AM Do Free and Fair Elections Promote Local Development? (Mateo Montenegro, Natalia Garbiras-Diaz)

11:08 – 11:25 AM Hidden Gender Discrimination (Elisa Macchi, Claude Raisaro)

11:25 – 11:42 AM Relationships & Responsibility (Laura Boudreau, Julia Cajal-Grossi, Canyon Can, Rocco Macciavello)

11:43 – 12:00 PM Don’t Stop Believing: Empowering Low SES Students Through Cognitive Behavioral Interventions (Juan Pereira)

12 – 1PM LUNCH 

[MAIN PROGRAM STARTS]

1:00 – 1:50 PM   Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India (Resuf Ahmed, Paul Brimble, Akhila Kovvuri, Alessandro Saia & Dean Yang)

1:50 – 2:40 PM   Rolling Back Progresa: School and Work After the End of a Landmark Anti-Poverty Program (Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Susan Parker, Tom Vogl)

2:40 – 3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK

Egg-timer session:

3:00 – 3:15 PM  Jobs in the Smog: Firm Location and Workers’ Exposure to Pollution in African Cities (Vittorio Bassi, Mathrew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin)

3:15 – 3:30 PM  Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring: Evidence from Pakistan (Maurizio Bussolo, Jean Lee, Mahreen Mahmud, Nayantara Sarma, Anaise Williams)

3:30 – 3:45 PM Parental Involvement Without Academic Input: A Low-Cost Approach to Improving Student Outcomes (Mahounan Yedomiffi)

3:45 – 4:00 PM Financially Constrained Procurement (Emilo Bisetti, Yuqi Chang, Dimas Fazio, Arkodipta Sarkar)

4:00 – 4:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

4:30 – 5:20 PM Money or Monitoring: Evidence on Improving Worker Effort (Jing Cai, Sai Luo, and Shing-Yi Wang)

5: 20 – 6:20 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Future of Aid and of Development Research

6:30 PM: DINNER

SATURDAY, MAY 3

8 – 9 AM: BREAKFAST

9  – 9:50 AM     Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity (Julian Arteaga, Nicolas de Roux, Margarita Gafaro, Ana Ibanex, Heitor Pellegrina)

9:50  – 10:40 AM   Using Post-Double Selection Lasso in Field Experiments (Jacobus Cilliers, Nour Elashmawy, David McKenzie)

10:40 – 11:00 AM: BREAK

11  – 11:50 AM  Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity (Tahir Andrabi, Christina Brown)

Egg-timer session:

11:50 – 12:05 PM (EGG)   From Flat to Fair? The Effects of a Progressive Tax Reform (Nicolas Ajzenman, Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Dario Tortarolo & Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare)

12:05 – 12:20 PM (EGG)   The Economic Consequences of Knowledge Hoarding (Luisa Cefala, Franck Irakoz,  Pedro Naso & Nicholas Swanson)

12:20 – 12:35 PM (EGG)   Community Targeting at Scale (Sudarno Sumarto, Elan Satriawan,  Benjamin A. Olken, Abhijit Banerjee, Achmad Tohari, Vivi Alatas & Rema Hanna)

BOXED LUNCH

If you have any questions about this conference overall, please email Lindsay Woodrick, lwtwo@princeton.edu