CEPR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SYMPOSIUM
JOINT WITH AMID FIRST CONFERENCE AND BREAD

Held jointly with Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach (AMID) Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (B.R.E.A.D.)

London; 25-26 September 2009

 

Programme

 
FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER

 
09.00 - 12.30 Pre-conference on Work in Progress by Junior Affiliates

 
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

 
13.30 - 14.45 HIV Does Matter for Fertility: Human Capital, Mortality and Family Size

Gunther Fink (Harvard School of Public Health)
Sebastian Linnemayr (Harvard School of Public Health)

 
14.45 - 16.00 Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Daughters Less Than Sons? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University, BREAD and CEPR)
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

 
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break

 
16.30 - 17.45 How to Target the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Rema Hanna (Harvard University)
Ben Olken (MIT)Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)

 
17.45 - 19.00 Trade and Income - Exploiting Time Series in Geography

James Feyrer (Dartmouth College)

 
19.30 Conference Dinner

 
SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER

 
09.00 - 10.15 Resource Abundance, Development, and Living Standards: Evidence from Oil Discoveries in Brazil

Guy Michaels (LSE, CEPR and BREAD)
Francesco Caselli (LSE and BREAD)

 
10.15 - 11.30 Civil Conflct and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long Term Effects of Political Violence in Perú

Gianmarco Leon (UC Berkeley)

 
11.30 - 11.45 Coffee Break

 
11.45-13.00 Contract Design in Insurance Groups

Stefan Dercon (Oxford, BREAD and CEPR)
Tessa Bold (Oxford)

 
13.00 Lunch

 
Organizers: Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics, CEPR and BREAD)
Tim Besley (London School of Economics, CEPR and BREAD)