BREAD/CEPR Conference on Development Economics

LSE, London 05 - 06 October 2007

The meeting is generously hosted by
the London School of Economics

 
Programme

 
Friday, October 05, 2007

 
12.30 - 14.00 Buffet Lunch, Conference Registration

 
14.00 - 15.15 Climbing Out of Poverty: Long Term Decisions Under Income Stress

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT, BREAD AND CEPR)
*Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard, BREAD and CEPR)

 
15.15 - 15.30 Break

 
15.30 - 16.45 Decentralization and Water Quality: Evidence from the Redrawing of County Boundaries in Brazil

*Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Molly Liscomb (University of Colorado)

 
16.45 - 17.00 Break

 
17.00 - 18.15 Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

*Pedro Vicente (University of Oxford)

 
18.15 - 19.15 Reception in STICERD Social Area

 
Saturday, October 06, 2007

 
09.00 - 10.15 Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement

Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley, BREAD and CEPR)
*Michael Kremer (Harvard University, The Brookings Institution and NBER)
Jessica Leino (UC Berkeley)
Alix Peterson Zwane (Google)

 
10.15 - 10.30 Break

 
10.30 - 11.45 Affirmative Action: Evidence from College Admissions in India

*Rema Hanna (New York University)
Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago, BREAD and CEPR)
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard, BREAD and CEPR)

 
11.45 - 12.00 Break

 
12.00 - 13.15 Is Microfinance's Emphasis of Women Inefficient?
Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

*Christopher Woodruff (UC San Diego)
Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya)
David McKenzie (World Bank and BREAD)

 
13.15 - 14.15 Buffet Lunch

 
14.15 - 15.30 The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Marcos Chamon (International Monetary Fund)
*Irineu de Carvalho Filho (International Monetary Fund)

 
15.30 - 15.45 Break

 
15.45 - 17.00 The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Policy

*Torsten Persson (IIES Stockholm, LSE and CEPR)
Tim Besley (LSE, BREAD and CEPR)

 
The conference was organized by Robin Burgess and Esther Duflo in collaboration with BREAD and CEPR.
We are grateful to the generous financial support provided by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the LSE Research Committee, STICERD and CEPR.