39th BREAD Conference on Development Economics
15 – 16 May, 2020, Evanston, IL
Sponsored by The Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University
Friday, May 29
11am-12pm EST
Emma Riley
“Resisting social pressure in the household using mobile money: Experimental evidence on microenterprise investment in Uganda”
Discussant: David McKenzie, World Bank
12-1pm EST
Nick Ryan and Anant Sudarshan
“Rationing the commons”
Discussant: Steve Puller, Texas A&M University
1pm-2pm EST
BREAK
2-3pm EST:
Daniel Bjorkegren, Josh Blumenstock, and Samsun Knight
“Manipulation proof machine learning”
Discussant: Maximilian Kasy, University of Oxford
Saturday, May 30
11am-12pm EST
Morgan Hardy, Gisella Kagy, and Lena Song
“Gotta have money to make money? Bargaining behavior and financial need of microentrepreneurs “
Discussant: Chris Udry, Northwestern University
12-1pm EST
Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan Weigel
“The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Rates in the D.R. Congo”
Discussant: Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich
1pm-2pm EST
BREAK
2pm-3pm EST
Clare Balboni , Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten, and Bilal Siddiqi
“Transportation, gentrification, and urban mobility: The inequality effects of place based policies”
Discussant: Steve Redding, Princeton University
The Scientific Organizers of the Conference are: Lori Beaman (Northwestern), Robin Burgess (LSE), David McKenize (World Bank), and Nancy Qian (Northwestern).