Twenty-Fifth BREAD Conference
25th BREAD Conference on Development Economics
26-27 April, 2013
Brown University
Watson Institute for International Studies
111 Thayer Street, Providence, RI
Conference Program
Friday 26 April
Registration desk opens at 8:00A.M.
8:30-9:00 am: Continental Breakfast
Watson Lobby
9:00 am-12 noon: BREAD Affiliate Workshop for Work in Progress
Joukowsky Room
12.00-1.00 pm: Lunch
Watson Lobby
1:00 -3:30 pm: Conference Session I: Poverty programs
Joukowsky Room
Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi
Sulaiman
Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and
Matthew Wai-Poi
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Indonesia
3:30 - 4.00 pm Coffee
Watson Lobby
4:00-6:30 pm Conference Session 2: Gender
Joukowsky Room
Lori Beaman Niall Keleher, and Jeremy Magruder
Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in
Malawi
Marcos A. Rangel and Duncan Thomas
Gender, Production and Consumption: Allocative Efficiency within Farm
Households
Dinner
Saturday 27 April
8:30-9:00 am: Continental Breakfast
Watson Lobby
9:00-10.20 am Conference Session 3: Corruption
Joukowsky Room
Sandra Sequeira
Displacing Corruption: Evidence from a Trade Liberalization Program
10:20-10:50 am Greeting by President Christina Paxson and coffee
Watson Lobby
10.50 am - 1.20 pm Conference Session 4: Health
Joukowsky Room
Daniel Bennett and Wesley Yin
The Market for High-Quality Medicine
Michael Kremer and Christopher M. Snyder
When Is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer
Heterogeneity
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
We would like to thank the Hewlett Foundation, Office of the Vice President for Research,
Watson Institute for International Studies, The William R. Rhodes Center for International
Economics and Finance, Department of Economics and Population Studies and Training Center for
their generous support.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 25th BREAD CONFERENCE, Brown University, 26-27 April 2013
The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce the 25th BREAD conference will be hosted by Brown University on April 26-27 2013.
You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is 28 January 2013.
Please submit your papers at :
http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/conferences/submit2
The scientific committee for this conference comprises Andrew Foster (Brown), Kaivan Munshi (Brown) and Eric Verhoogen (Columbia). 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
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