IGC-PEDL Conference 2017 - Programme

LSE CONFERENCE ROOM LIF1.04

Thursday 14 December

Presenters on Thursday will have 40 minutes, including questions and discussion. There will be a 15 minutes break between presentations.

8:30 – 9:00  Tea and Coffee and Registration

9:00 – 9:40 “Competition in Agricultural Markets: An Experimental Approach” (Lorenzo Casaburi and Tristan Reed)

9:55 – 10:35 “Weather, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India” (Jonathan Colmer)

10:35 – 10:50  Tea and Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 “Insecurity and Industrial Organization: Evidence from Afghanistan” (Josh Blumenstock, Tarek Ghani, Sylvan Herskowitz, Ethan Kapstein, Thomas Scherer, and Ott Toomet)

11:45-12:25 “Land Mines and Spatial Development” (Giorgio Chiovelli, Stelios Michalpoulos and Elias Papaioannou) Presentation Slides

12:25-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:10 "Contracting Failures in the Village Economy" (Ryan Bubb, Supreet Kaur and Sendhil Mullainathan)

2:25-3:05 “Contractual Flexibility and Selection into Borrowing: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh” (Marianna Battaglia, Selim Gulesci and Andreas Madestam)

3:05 – 3:20  Tea and Coffee Break

3:20-4:00 “The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training” (Achyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham)

4:15-4:55 “Do management Interventions Last? Evidence from India” (Nick Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts)

6:30 Dinner

 

Friday 15 December

9:00 – 9:30 Coffee

9:30-10:10 “If she Builds it, They Won't Come: Experimental Evidence of Demand-side Constraints in the Gender Profit Gap,” (Morgan Hardy and Gisella Kagy) Presentation Slides

10:10-10:30 Tea and Coffee Break

10:30-10:50 “Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship” (Fernando Vega-Redondo, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Paolo Pin, Gaia Rubera, and Diego Ubfal)

10:50-11:10 “What Kinds of Chinese “Geese” Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms” (Deborah Brautigam, Tang Xiaoyang and Xia Ying)

11:10-11:30 “Exporting to Fragile States in Africa: Firm Level Evidence” (Peter Chacha and Lawrence Edwards)

11:30-11:50 Tea and Coffee Break

11:50-12:30 “Binding Up the Nation's Wounds: An Economic Analysis of the Korean Reunification” (Sang Yoon Lee and Yongseok Shin)

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-1:50 “Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh” (Andreas Menzel and Christopher Woodruff) Presentation Slides

1:50-2:10 “The long-run effects of industrial work on health: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia” (Chris Blattman, Stefan Dercon and Simon Franklin)

2:10-2:30 “Explaining Worker Productivity: The Roles of Hidden Traits and Weather” (Atonu Rabbani, Mushfiquar Rahman, Riya Siddiqua and Mohammad Salim Hossain)

2:30-3:30 “Corruption and Firms: Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil” (Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem)