Twenty-Seventh BREAD Conference
27th BREAD Conference on Development Economics
8-9 May 2014
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Conference Program
(click here for program in pdf format)
Thursday 8 May
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
8:30-9:00 am: Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am-12 noon: Board Meeting / Affiliate Work in Progress
12.00-1.00 pm: Lunch
1:00 -3:30 pm: Conference Session 1: Credit and Insurance
Mushfiq Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig
Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
Mark Dean and Anja Sautmann
Credit Constraints and the Measurement of Time Preference
3:30-4.00 pm Coffee
4:00-6:30 pm Conference Session 2: Public Service Delivery
Sandip Sukhtankar, Karthik Muralidharan, and Paul Niehaus
Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from
Biometric Smartcards in India
Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott Lee
Do-gooders and Ladder-climbers: Career incentives, Selection, and Performance in
Public Service Delivery
7:30 pm Dinner (Revival Bar & Kitchen, 2102 Shattuck Avenue)
Friday 9 May
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
8:00-8:30 am: Coffee & Continental Breakfast
9:00-10.20 am Conference Session 3: Public Finance
Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal
Tax Me if You Can: Evidence on Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion
Substitution
10:20-10:30 am Break
10:30am-1:00pm: Conference Session 4: Agriculture
Kyle Emerick, Alain de Janvry, and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Risk and Modernization of Agriculture
Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Emily Sellars
Labor Scarcity, Land Tenure, and the Persistence of History: Evidence from
Mexico
1: 00 pm Lunch
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce the 27th BREAD Conference on Economic Development. The conference will be held at Berkeley, CA, 8-9 May 2014.
You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the conference. The deadline for submissions is midnight EST on 21 March 2014.
Please submit completed papers at :
http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/conferences/submit
We are very grateful to Fred Finan, Paul Gertler and Ted Miguel who have graciously agreed to serve on the scientific committee and select the papers for the program. 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. Reasonable 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 |
