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Issues in Network Data
Marcel Fafchamps, Stanford University & CEPR
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Second presentation slides

Lunch

Child Nutritional Status and Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Indian Migrants in England
Caterina Alacevich, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (with Alessandro Tarozzi)

Mobile Money and Risk Sharing Against Aggregate Shocks
Emma Riley, Oxford University 

Banking and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in India
Nathaniel Young, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Coffee Break

Disenfranchisement and political participation: evidence from the Brazilian Dictatorship
Luis Meloni, Bocconi University (with Alexsandros Cavgias)

Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China
Marlon Seror, Paris School of Economics (with Clement Imbert, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg)

We Don’t Need No Education: Reconstruction and Conflict across Afghanistan
Travers Barclay Child, Tinbergen Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Welcome Dinner

Spatial Methods in Development Economics
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania
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Lunch

Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics
Andrew Dickens, York University, Canada

Using Cell Phone Data to Improve Disease Targeting and Mitigate the Negative Externality of Internal Population Movement
Sveta Milusheva, Brown University

The hidden value and cost of participatory decision-making: Evidence from a lab-in-the- field experiment in Bangladesh
Serena Cocciolo, Stockholm University

Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Andrea Guariso, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (with Thorsten Rogall)

Coffee Break

The Effect of Aspirations on Investment in Human Capital: Empirical Evidence from UK State Schools
Ruth Fortmann, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Measuring Trust in Institutions: An Experimental Study Using Time Preference Elicitation
Maria Isabel Santana, University of Mannheim

Do the effects of labour market interventions spill over through social networks? Experimental evidence from urban Ethiopia
Marc Witte, University of Oxford (with Stefano Caria, Simon Franklin)

The test effect: Behavioral change and potential biases due to (biomedical) testing in surveys
Zlata Tanovic, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Informality In Africa: Institutions and Social Capital
Sara Tonini, Università di Trento

Professor’s Dinner

Taxation and Development: What Can Be Learned From Large Administrative Data Sets?
Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics & CEPR
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Lunch

Aspirations and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Indian Adolescents
Phillip Ross, Boston University

Conservation: For Love or Fame?
Samantha De Martino, University of Sussex (with Kerri Brick and Martine Visser)

The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery​
Anna Baiardi, University of Warwick

Culture, Diffusion, and Economic Development
Ani Harutyunyan, LICOS at KU Leuven (with Ömer Özak)

Coffee Break

History and access to land on the frontier
Margaux Vinez, Paris School of Economics

Households in Times of War: Adaptation Strategies during the Nepal Civil War
Francois Libois, University of Namur

Beyond profits. The non-monetary benefits of cattle rearing. Evidence from Uganda
Olivia Bertelli, Paris School of Economics

Neighborhood Effect in Bureaucracy: The Case of Chinese Coalmine Safety
Xiangyu Shi, Peking University (with Tianyang Xi)

Dinner

Social Networks and Development
Emily Breza (Columbia University)

Lunch

Mining large-scale social networks
Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur
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