Sponsored by: Georgetown University’s Department of Economics, the McCourt School of Public Policy and Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (Gui2de)
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, APRIL 29TH
Registration desk opens at 8:30 am
8:30-9:30 am: Continental Breakfast
9:30 am-12:30 pm: Pre-Conference Session
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm
Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin Olken and Sudarno Sumarto
2:30-3:30 pm
Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from The Brazilian Trade Liberalization
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo R. Soares, Gabriel Ulyssea
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee
4:00-5:00 pm
From Local To Global: External Validity In A Fertility Natural Experiment
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Rajeev Dehejia, Cyrus Samii
5:00-6:00 pm
The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
Selim Gulesci, Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty
6:30 pm Dinner, by invitation.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH
8:30-9:30 am: Continental Breakfast (Old North Lounge)
9:00-10:00 am
The Pirates of Somalia: Crime and Deterrence on the High Seas by Quy-Toan Do, Lin Ma and Claudia Ruiz
10:00-10:30 am Coffee
10:30 am-11:30 pm
Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan
Michael Callen, Karrar Jaffar, Muhammad Yasir Khan, James Andreoni, Charles Sprenger
11:30 am-12:30 pm
Insiders and Outsiders: Local Ethnic Politics and Public Good Provision
Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig
Scientific Committee:
Garance Genicot, Xavier Gine, James Habyarimana and Martin Ravallion
CALL FOR PAPERS: BREAD CONFERENCE at Georgetown University, Washington DC, April 29-30 2016
In collaboration with Georgetown University’s Department of Economics, the McCourt School of Public Policy and Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (Gui2de), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is
pleased to announce the 31st BREAD conference which will be hosted by Georgetown
University in Washington DC on Friday April 29 and Saturday April 30 2016.
You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is Friday January 29 2016. Please submit your paper by going to: http://ibread.org/bread/node/add/cfpaper?cf=11703
The scientific committee for this conference is Garance Genicot (Georgetown University, Department of Economics), Xavier Gine (DECRG, World Bank), James Habyarimana (Georgetown University, McCourt School) and Martin Ravallion (Georgetown University, Department of Economics).