37th BREAD Conference on Development Economics
May 3-4, 2019
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Conference Program
Friday, May 3
Registration 8:00 am – 9:00 am, Cambria (8321 Baltimore Ave, College Park, MD)
8:00-9:00 am: Breakfast, Cambria
9:00 am-12:00 pm: BREAD Board Meeting, Cambria
9:00 am-12:00 pm: Pre-Conference Session, ESJ Rm 0215
Registration – 12:00 pm 1-:00 pm, ANS Rm 0408
12:00-1:15 pm: Lunch, ANS courtyard
1:15-3:15 pm: Conference Session I. ANS Rm 0408
Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation
Soeren Henn
Complements or Substitutes: State Presence and the Power of Traditional Leaders
3:15-3:45 pm Coffee break, ANS courtyard
3:45-5:45 pm Conference Session 2. ANS Rm 0408
Michael Koelle
Microenterprises and the Lure of Wage Work: Theory and Evidence from Mexican Export Manufacturing
Caitlin Brown, Rossella Calvi, and Jacob Penglase
Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty
6:15 – 7:15 Reception, College Park Marriott, Sheppard Gallery
7:15 pm Dinner (by invitation), College Park Marriott
Saturday, May 4
Registration 8:30 am – 9:00 am, Cambria
8:30-9:00 am: Continental Breakfast, Cambria
9:00-10:00 am Conference Session 3. ANS Rm 0408
Shilpa Aggarwal, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Ariel Zucker
Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences
10:00-10:30 am Coffee, ANS courtyard
10:30 am-12:30 pm Conference Session 4. ANS Rm 0408
Manuela Angelucci, Daniel Bennett
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi
Vivi Alatas, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius, Benjamin A. Olken, Cindy Paladines
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch (boxed lunches provided), ANS courtyard
The Scientific Organizers of the Conference are: Sebastian Galiani (UMD), Kenneth Leonard (UMD), Susan Parker UMD), and Garance Genicot (Georgetown). The pre-conference will be organized by Jing Cai (UMD)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
The Departments of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the School of Public Policy, the Maryland Population Research Center, CONSERVE and the Division of Research have provided generous support.