CEPR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS SYMPOSIUM

Held jointly with Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Developing Countries: A micro-empirical approach (AMID) Marie Curie Initial Training Network and Swedish Development Economics Network

Stockholm, 2 - 3 June 2010

 

Programme

 
Wednsday 2nd June 2010

 
13:00- 14:00 Registration and refreshments

 
14:00 - 15:15 Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)Selvan Kumar (Yale University)
*Rohini Pande (Harvard University and CEPR)Felix Su (Harvard University)

 
15:15 - 16:30 Our Turn To Eat: The Political Economy of Roads in Kenya

*Robin Burgess (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Rémi Jedwab (Paris School of Economics)
Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Ameet Morjaria (London School of Economics)

 
16:30 - 17:30 Coffee Break

 
17:00 - 18:15 Educational Choices and Subjective Expectations of Returns: Evidence on Intrahousehold Decisions and Gender Differences

Orazio Attanasio (University College London and CEPR)
*Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi University)

 
19:30 Conference Dinner

 
Thursday 3rd June 2010

 
10:00 - 11:15 The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Xin Meng (Australian National University)
*Nancy Qian (Yale University)
Pierre Yared (Columbia University)

 
11:15 - 12:30 Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomised Field Experiment in Indonesia

*Menno Pradhan (VU University Amsterdam and Univ. of Amsterdam)
Daniel Suryadarma (Australian National University)
Amanda Beatty (World Bank)
Rima Prama Artha

 
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch

 
13:45 - 15:00 Urbanization and Structural Transformation

*Guy Michaels (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Ferdinand Rauch (University of Vienna)
Stephen J. Redding (London School of Economics and CEPR)

 
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee

 
15:15 - 16:30 Women's Rights and Development

*Raquel Fernández (New York University and CEPR)

 
* Indicates the presenter.

 
Organizers: Scientific organizers: Esther Duflo (MIT and CEPR)
Jakob Svensson (IIES, Stockholm University and CEPR)

Local organizers: Tessa Bold (IIES, Stockholm University)
Jakob Svensson (IIES, Stockholm University)
Annika Andreasson (IIES, Stockholm University).