TCD/LSE/CEPR Workshop in Development Economics - Programme
TCD/LSE/CEPR Workshop in Development Economics
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Room: TRiSS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
4-5 September 2019
Scientific Committee:
Oriana Bandiera (LSE and CEPR)
Robin Burgess (LSE and CEPR)
Andrea Guariso (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)
Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)
Ameet Morjaria (Northwestern University and CEPR)
Wednesday 4 September
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13:30-14:00 |
Registration |
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14:00-15:00 |
Pre-natal Intervention and Human Capital Accumulation: Experimental Evidence from Households in Extreme Poverty in Northern Nigeria Imran Rasul, University College London and CEPR (with Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Giacomo Mason, Lucie Moore and Molly Scott) |
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15:00-16:00 |
Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services Erika Deserranno, Northwestern University (with Aisha Nansamba and Nancy Qian) |
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16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30-17:30 |
Building State and Citizen: How Tax Collection in Congo Engenders Citizen Engagement with the State Jonathan Weigel, London School of Economics |
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17:30-18:30 |
Skill Versus Voice in Local Development Katherine Casey, Stanford University and CEPR (with Rachel Glennerster, Edward Miguel and Maarten Voors) |
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19:30 |
Dinner |
Thursday 5 September
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09:30-10:00 |
Access-to-demand Frictions and Firm Growth: Experimental Evidence from Liberia Golvine de Rochambeau, SciencesPo (with Vinayak Iyer and Jonas Hjort) |
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10:00-10:30 |
Taxation, Information, and Withholding Evidence from Costa Rica Anne Brockmeyer, World Bank (with Marco Hernandez) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and CEPR (with Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Multinational Enforcement of Labor Law: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh’s Apparel Laura Boudreau, University of California, Berkeley |
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12:00-12:30 |
The Low Quality Trap: Evidence from the Market for Maize in Uganda Jakob Svensson, Institute for International Economic Studies and CEPR (with Tessa Bold, Selene Ghisolfi and Frances Nsonzi) |
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12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:30 |
Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Credit Contracts Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University and CEPR (with Marianna Battaglia and Andreas Madestam) |
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14:30-15:30 |
Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth Joan Monras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR (with Jacopo Ponticelli, Paula Bustos and Juan Manuel Castro Vincenzi) |
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15:30-15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45-16:45 |
Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design Michael Koelle, University of Oxford (with Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn) |
Timing
Short Presentations:
Presentation: 20 min (short questions allowed throughout the presentation)
General discussion: 10 min
Long Presentations:
Presentation: 45 min (short questions allowed throughout the presentation)
General discussion: 15 min