BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference on Development Economics - Programme
BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference on Development Economics
London School of Economics
21 – 22 September, 2018
Scientific Committee:
Oriana Bandiera (LSE, BREAD and CEPR)
Fadi Hassan (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi, BREAD and CEPR)
Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)
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Friday 21 September |
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Pre-Conference Session - Room 1.04 |
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration and coffee - Room 1.05 |
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9:00-9:25 |
Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India Lucie Gadenne, Warwick University and CEPR (with Roland Rathelot Tushar K. Nandi) |
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9:25-9:50 |
The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia Stefano Caria, University of Bristol (with Girum Abebe and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina) |
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9:50-10:15 |
Job Displacement Insurance and Consumption: Evidence from Brazil |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break - Room 1.05 |
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10:45-11:10 |
The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa Sara Lowes, Bocconi University and CEPR (with Eduardo Montero) |
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11:10-11:35
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"State repression, exit, and voice: Living in the shadow of Cambodia’s Killing Fields" Andreas Madestam, Stockholm University (with Mathias Iwanowsky) |
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11:35-11:55 |
Coffee Break - Room 1.05 |
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11:55-12:20
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"Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Evidence from India". Clement Imbert, Warwick University (with Abhijit Banerjee , Esther Duflo , Rohini Pande) |
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12:20:12:45 |
“Challenges of Change: An Experiment Training Women to Manage in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector" Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI Prague (with Rocco Macchiavello, Atonu Rabbani, and Christopher Woodruff) |
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12:45-14:00 |
Lunch - Room 1.05 |
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14:00-16:00 |
Session 1 - Room 1.04 |
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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and CEPR (with Diva Dhar, Tarun Jain) |
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Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania (with Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, and Kathleen McGinn) |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break - Room 1.05 |
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16:30-18:30 |
Session 2 - Room 1.04 |
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Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania (with Maisy Wong) |
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Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China Kaivan Munshi, University of Cambridge and CEPR (with Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, and Xiaobo Zhang) |
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19:30 |
Dinner at Barrafina, 10 Adelaide Street |
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Saturday 22 September |
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09:30-10:30 |
Session 3 - Room 1.04 |
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10:30:10:50
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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico Susan Parker, University of Maryland (with Tom Vogl) |
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10:30:10:50 |
Coffee Break - Room 1.05 |
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10:50-12:50 |
Session 4 - Room 1.04 |
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Migration and the Value of Social Networks Joshua Blumenstock, University of Berkeley (with Xu Tan , Guanghua Chi) |
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Let their knowldge flow: the effect of Yugoslavian returning refugees on export productivity Hilel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics (with Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, and Andreas Hauptmann) |
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12:50-13:00 |
Concluding Remarks |
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13:00 |
Lunch - Room 1.05 |
Timing
Pre-conference papers:
Presentation: 20 min (short questions allowed throughout the presentation)
General discussion: 5 min
Main session papers:
Presentation: 45 min (short questions allowed throughout the presentation)
General discussion: 15 min