Programme

Pre-Conference registration

Trust and Inequality: Just bad luck?
David Smerdon, University of Amsterdam (with Sanne Blauw)

Is the quantity-quality trade-off real? Quasi-experimental evidence from China
Yiyang Luo, University of Essex

The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Informality: Evidence from South Africa’s Child Support Grant
Alessandro Tondini, Paris School of Economics

Coffee Break

Informal medical providers in developing countries: What do they know, do, and profit from?
Niklas Heusch (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Social Identities and Public Policies: Unintended Effects of Gender Quotas in India
Guilhem Cassan, Université de Namur (with Lore Vandewalle)

Coffee Break

Altruism through Empathy: Evidence from the Field
Elif Kubilay, Koc University

On the Origins of Altruistic Norms: Tenure Institutions, Resource Scarcity, and Conflicts in Colonial India
Jun Goto, The Tokyo Foundation

Main conference registration and lunch

Session 1

Piggy-Back Exporting, Intermediation, and the Distributional Gains from Trade in Agricultural Markets
Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics & CEPR (with Silvana Tenreyro)

Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts
Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University & CEPR (with Konrad Burchardi, Benedetta Lerva and Munshi Sulaiman)

Coffee Break

Session 2

In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World
Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin (with Douglas Gollin and David Lagakos)

Environmental externalities and intrahousehold inefficiencies
Kelsey Jack, Tufts University (Seema Jayachandran and Sarojini Rao)

10:00-10:45

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational   Investment
Natalie Bau, University of Toronto (with Nava Ashraf, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn)

Coffee Break

Session 4

Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text
Hannes Felix Mueller, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC & CEPR (with Christopher Rauh)

Social Contagion of Ethnic Hostility
Michal Bauer, CERGE-EI & CEPR (with Jana Cahlikova, Julie Chytilova and Tomas Zelinsky)

Lunch