BREAD Conference on Development, UC San Diego, May 10-11, 2024

BREAD Spring 2024 Meeting

May 10-11, 2024

UC San Diego CA (USA)
Live Stream Link

Conference Program

Friday, May 10, 2024

8:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast

 

Morning Session:

9:00 am
Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco
Louise Paul-Delvaux

9:25 am
Under-training by Employers in Spot Labor Markets: Evidence from Burundi
Nicholas Swanson

9:50 am
Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance
Muhammad Meki

10:15am-10:45am
Coffee Break

10:45am
When Emotion Regulation Matters: The Efficacy of Social-Emotional Learning to Address School-Based Violence in Central America
Leys Dinarte Diaz

11:10am
Endogenous Production Networks and Firm Dynamics
Anuraag Aekka

11:35am
Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos
Daniel Bjorkegren

12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch

 

Afternoon Session:

1:00pm
Evaluating and pricing health insurance in low-income countries: A field experiment in India
Cynthia Kinnan

2:00pm
Poverty at higher frequency
Jonathan Morduch

2:20-2:45pm
Coffee Break

2:45pm
Targeting subsidies through price menus: Menu design and evidence from clean fuels
Kelsey Jack

3:45pm
Water treatment and child mortality: a meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis
Michael Kremer

4:05-4:30pm
Coffee Break

4:30pm
Human and Nature: Economies of Density and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest
Shunsuke Tsuda

5:30pm
The Social Consequences of Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa
Sara Lowes

6:15pm-
Dinner

 

Saturday, May 11, 2024

7:30am-9:00 am

Breakfast
**food will stay out until 9am

Morning Session:

8:00 am

How Work from Home Affects Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Two Experiments in India
Suhani Jalota, Lisa Ho

9:00am
Updating the State: Does Easier Access to Program Information Improve Bureaucrat Performance?
Yusuf Neggers

9:20 am
Subways or Minibuses? Privatized Provision of Public Transit
Lucas Conwell

9:40am-10:00am
Coffee Break

10:00am
Is Basic Democracy Enough?
Cory Smith

10:20am
War Mobilization and Economic Development: World War II and Structural Transformation in India
Aneesha Parvathaneni

10:40am
Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders in Kenya
Eleanor Wiseman

11:30am
Lunch