Nineteenth BREAD Conference
Nineteenth BREAD Conference on Development Economics
New York University, May 6-7, 2011
Sponsored by: the Development Research Institute at New York University at New York University, the C.V. Starr Center at New York University at New York University and the Hewlett Foundation .
Conference location: Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York University , New York City, New York
Conference Program
Friday, May 6, 2011
Registration begins at 9.30 am outside Room 914, Kimmel Center.
Photo id is needed to get into the building.
10:00-12:00
Board Meeting
Room 909, Kimmel Center
10:00-12:00
Pre-conference on Work in Progress by Junior Affiliates
Room 914, Kimmel Center
Anirban Mitra
Do the Poor Gain from Mandated Political Representation? Theory and Evidence
from India
Jonathan Robinson (with Lori Beaman and Jeremy Magruder)
Small change and forgotten sales: Evidence from an experiment with small
businesses in Kenya
Karthik Muralidharan (with Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukhtankar)
Policy analysis by revealed preference: With an application to food security
12:00-1.00 pm
Lunch
Rooms 405 and 406, Kimmel Center
BREAD Conference Session I
Chair: William Easterly
Room 914, Kimmel Center
1:00-2:15 pm
Robin Burgess (LSE), Matthew Hansen (SDSU), Benjamin Olken (MIT), Peter Potapov
(SDSU) and and Stefanie Sieber (LSE)
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
2:15-3:30 pm
Siwan Anderson (UBC), Patrick Francois (UBSC) and Ashok Kotwal (UBC)
One Kind of Democracy
BREAD Conference Session II
Chair: Andrew Foster
Room 914, Kimmel Center
4:00-5:15 pm
Sarah Baird (GWU), Craig McIntosh (USCD) and Berk Ozler (World Bank)
Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
5:15-6:30 pm
Mark Pitt (Brown University), Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University) and Nazmul Hassan
(University of Dhaka)
Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based
Economy
Conference dinner
Saturday, May 7, 2011
8:00-8:45 am
Continental breakfast
Room 912, Kimmel Center
BREAD Conference Session III
Chair: Debraj Ray
Room 914, Kimmel Center
8:45-10:00 am
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University, NBER, BREAD) and Nancy Qian (Yale University, NBER,
BREAD, CEPR)
Aiding Conflict: The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
10:15 am - 11.30 am
David Yanagizawa-Drott (Harvard Kennedy School)
Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
11.45 am -1:00 pm
Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick, BREAD and CEPR) and Ameet Morjaria (Harvard Kennedy
School)
The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Flower Exports
CALL FOR PAPERS: 19th BREAD CONFERENCE, NYU, New York, 6-7 May 2011
The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce the 19th BREAD conference will be hosted by NYU on Friday May 6 - Saturday May 7, 2011.
You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is 5 February, 2011.
Please submit your papers at :
http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/conferences/submit
The scientific committee for this conference is Debraj Ray (NYU), Bill Easterly (NYU) and Andrew Foster (Brown). All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that there will be time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and ample time is allowed for discussion of the research during the presentations. Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented in the conference.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email
BREAD@duke.edu
| Scientific committee members click here |
