The following papers will be presented at this symposium; for further information please see the programme

African Polygamy: Past and Present

*James Fenske (Oxford University)

Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

*Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Robin Burgess (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Selim Gulesci (Bocconi University)
Imran Rasul (University College London and CEPR)
Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC)

Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Experimental Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda

Martina Björkman (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
*Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University and CEPR)
David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard Kennedy School)

Colonial Investments and African Development: Evidence from Ghanaian Railways

*Remi Jedwab (London School of Economics)
Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex)

Costs of Education and Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project

*Jacobus de Hoop (International Labour Office)
Furio Rosatti (International Labour Office)

Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

Raymond Fisman (Columbia Business School)
*Daniel Paravisini (London School of Economics)
Vikrant Vig (London Business School and CEPR)

Edutainment Radio, Women's Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia

Maria Cheung (Stockholm University)

Enlisting Workers in Monitoring Firms: Payroll Tax Compliance in Mexico

Judith Frias (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social)
Todd Kumler (Columbia University)
*Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

Ethnic Inequality

Alberto Alesina (Harvard University and CEPR)
*Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)
Elias Papaioannou (Dartmouth College and CEPR)

Inequality, Relative Income and Development: Field-Experimental Evidence from the Bolivian Amazon

Jere R. Behrman (University of Pennsylvania)
Ricardo Godoy (Brandeis University)
*Farzad Saidi (New York University)
Eduardo A. Undurraga (Brandeis University)

Should Aid Be Conditional on Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

*Ben Olken (MIT and CEPR)
Junko Onishi (World Bank)
Susan Wong (World Bank)

Son Preference, Fertility and Family Structure. Evidence form Reproductive Behavior among Nigerian Women
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Annamaria Milazzo (Paris School of Economics)

Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Experimental Evidence with Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation

*Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics)
Patrick Premand (The World Bank)