2009 SITE Summer Workshop, Segment 4

The session will meet in Conference Room A in Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research located in Landau Economics Building.

Here is the map to the building.

Monday, July 27

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie’s Choice in Mao’s Mass Send-Down Movement presented by Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and co-authored with Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee

10:15 - 11:15 Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya presented by Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz and co-authored with Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer, Brookings Institution, Harvard University.

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee

11:30 - 12:30 Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy presented by Andrew Foster, Brown University.

12: 30 - 2:00 Lunchtime Discussion

2:00 - 3:00 Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets presented by Xavier Giné, World Bank and co-authored with Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang, both University of Michigan.

3:00 - 3:15 Coffee

3:15 - 4:15 A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative presented by Joseph P. Kaboski, Ohio State University and co-authored with Robert M. Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

4:15 - 4:30 Coffee

4:30 - 5:30 TBA presented by Jesse Cunha, Stanford University.

6:00 Dinner Discussion

Tuesday, July 28

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 Short-run Subsidies and Long-term Adoption of New Health Products: Experimental evidence from Kenya presented by Pascaline Dupas, University of California, Los Angeles.

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee

10:15 - 11:15 Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide Treated Nets presented by Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University.

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee

11:30 - 12:30 On Distinguishing Selfish and Other-Regarding Preferences in Situ presented by Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley.

12:30 - 2:00 Lunchtime Discussion

2:00 - 3:00 When Can School Inputs Improve Test Scores? presented by Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and co-authored with Jishnu Das, World Bank, Stefan Dercon, Oxford University, Pramila Krishnan, Cambridge University, James Habyarimana, Georgetown University and Venkatesh Sundararaman also World Bank.
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3:00 - 3:15 Coffee

3:15 - 4:15 Education Choices in Mexico: Using a Structural Model and a Randomised Experiment to Evaluate PROGRESA presented by Orazio Attanasio, University College, London and co-authored with Costas Meghir, University College, London , IFS, CEPR and IZA and Ana Santiago, University College, London and IADB.

4:15 - 4:30 Coffee

4:30 - 5:30 Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Institutions presented by Ted Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and co-authored with Michael Kremer, Harvard University; Jessica Leino, World Bank and Alix Zwane, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

7:00 Dinner Discussion

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer 2009 Workshop
	Segment 4: Innovations in Empirical Strategies in Development July 27 and 28 Organized by Aprajit Mahajan, Anjini Kochar and Giacomo de Giorgi, Stanford University; Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University and Orazio Attanasio, University College, London.
	The session will meet in Conference Room A in Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research located in Landau Economics Building. Here is the map to the building. Monday, July 27 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00 Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie’s Choice in Mao’s Mass Send-Down Movement presented by Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University and co-authored with Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee 10:15 - 11:15 Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya presented by Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz and co-authored with Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer, Brookings Institution, Harvard University. 11:15 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy presented by Andrew Foster, Brown University. 12: 30 - 2:00 Lunchtime Discussion 2:00 - 3:00 Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets presented by Xavier Giné, World Bank and co-authored with Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang, both University of Michigan. 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee 3:15 - 4:15 A Structural Evaluation of a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative presented by Joseph P. Kaboski, Ohio State University and co-authored with Robert M. Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 4:15 - 4:30 Coffee 4:30 - 5:30 TBA presented by Jesse Cunha, Stanford University. 6:00 Dinner Discussion Tuesday, July 28 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast 9:00 - 10:00 Short-run Subsidies and Long-term Adoption of New Health Products: Experimental evidence from Kenya presented by Pascaline Dupas, University of California, Los Angeles. 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee 10:15 - 11:15 Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide Treated Nets presented by Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University. 11:15 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 On Distinguishing Selfish and Other-Regarding Preferences in Situ presented by Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley. 12:30 - 2:00 Lunchtime Discussion 2:00 - 3:00 When Can School Inputs Improve Test Scores? presented by Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and co-authored with Jishnu Das, World Bank, Stefan Dercon, Oxford University, Pramila Krishnan, Cambridge University, James Habyarimana, Georgetown University and Venkatesh Sundararaman also World Bank. . 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee 3:15 - 4:15 Education Choices in Mexico: Using a Structural Model and a Randomised Experiment to Evaluate PROGRESA presented by Orazio Attanasio, University College, London and co-authored with Costas Meghir, University College, London , IFS, CEPR and IZA and Ana Santiago, University College, London and IADB. 4:15 - 4:30 Coffee 4:30 - 5:30 Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Institutions presented by Ted Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and co-authored with Michael Kremer, Harvard University; Jessica Leino, World Bank and Alix Zwane, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 7:00 Dinner Discussion
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