Scientific Committee:
Oriana Bandiera (LSE, BREAD and CEPR), Fadi Hassan (Trinity College Dublin and TIME), Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi, BREAD and CEPR) and Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)
Friday 21 September
8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:25 Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India
Lucie Gadenne, Warwick University and CEPR (with Roland Rathelot and Tushar K. Nandi)
9:25-9:50 The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia
Stefano Caria, University of Bristol (with Girum Abebe and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina)
9:50-10:15 Job Displacement Insurance and Consumption: Evidence from Brazil
François Gerard, Columbia University and CEPR (with Joana Naritomi)
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:10 The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa
Sara Lowes, Bocconi University and CEPR (with Eduardo Montero)
11:10-11:35 State repression, exit, and voice: Living in the shadow of Cambodia’s Killing Fields
Andreas Madestam, Stockholm University (with Mathias Iwanowsky)
11:35-11:55 Coffee Break
11:55-12:20 Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Evidence from India
Clement Imbert, Warwick University (with Abhijit Banerjee , Esther Duflo , Rohini Pande)
12:20:12:45 Challenges of Change: An Experiment Training Women to Manage in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
Andreas Menzel, CERGE-EI Prague (with Rocco Macchiavello, Atonu Rabbani, and Christopher Woodruff)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and CEPR (with Diva Dhar, Tarun Jain)
15:00-16:00 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania (with Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, and Kathleen McGinn)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break – Room
16:30-17:30 Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania (with Maisy Wong)
17:30-18:30 Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China
Kaivan Munshi, University of Cambridge and CEPR (with Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, and Xiaobo Zhang)
19:30 Dinner at Barrafina, 10 Adelaide Street
Saturday 22 September
09:30-10:30 Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico
Susan Parker, University of Maryland (with Tom Vogl)
10:30:10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:50 Migration and the Value of Social Networks
Joshua Blumenstock, University of Berkeley (with Xu Tan , Guanghua Chi)
11:50-12:50 Let their knowledge flow: the effect of Yugoslavian returning refugees on export productivity
Hilel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics (with Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, and Andreas Hauptmann)
12:50-13:00 Concluding Remarks
13:00 Lunch