The following papers will be presented at this conference. Please see the Programme for further details.

Pre-Conference papers

Why Is Africa So Urbanized? Resource Booms and Cities in Ghana and Ivory Coast
Remi Jedwab [LSE / PSE]

Social Status and Influence: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment on Local Public Good Provision
Giovanna d'Adda [Bocconi]

British law and caste identity manipulation in colonial India: the Punjab Alienation of Land Act
Guilhem Cassan [PSE / Bocconi]

Meritocracy or Cronyism? An Empirical Analysis of the Promotion of Chinese Provincial Leaders
Masayuki Kudamatsu [IIES]

Sale of visas : a smuggler's final song ?
Alice Mesnard [City University]

Debiasing and Financial Decision-Making
Shawn Coles [HBS]

Conference Papers

Democracy, Redistribution, and Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden 1919-1950
Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich (Stockholm University) *Per Pettersson-Lidbom (Stockholm University)

Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
Monica Martinez-Bravo (Johns Hopkins) Nancy Qian (Yale University, BREAD and CEPR) Yang Yao (CCER at PKU) *Gerard Padro i Miquel (London School of Economics, BREAD and CEPR)

Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
*Esther Duflo (MIT, BREAD and CEPR) Pascaline Dupas (UCLA and BREAD) Michael Kremer (Harvard University, BREAD and CEPR)

Learning by Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
Rema Hanna (Harvard University, BREAD and CEPR) Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University, BREAD and CEPR) *Joshua Schwartzstein (Dartmouth College)

The Macroeconomics of Microfinance
*Francisco Buera (Northwestern University and UCLA) Joseph P. Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis)

Under-investment in Profitable Technologies when Experimenting is Risky: Evidence from a Migration Experiment in Bangladesh
Gharad Bryan (London School of Economics) Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney) *Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University and CEPR)

Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Health Gains
Sarah Baird (George Washington University) Joan Hamory Hicks (University of California, Berkeley) Michael Kremer (Harvard University, BREAD and CEPR) *Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley, BREAD and CEPR)

 
The AMID project is supported by the Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) Funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme [PITN-GA-2008-214705].