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Monday, June 20, 2016 |
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Preston Auditorium | |
08:00¨C09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
09:00¨C09:15 | Opening Remarks Kaushik Basu (Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
09:15¨C10:15 | Keynote Address 1: Big Data and Economic Measurement: What a Billion Prices say about Inflation and Exchange Rates? Chair: Haishan Fu (Director, Development Data Group, World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) Speaker: Roberto Rigob¨®n (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) DOWNLOAD: |
10:15¨C10:30 | Coffee |
Sessions 1A-1D | |
10:30¨C12:30 | Session 1A Poverty and Inequality in High and Low Definition| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Francisco Ferreira (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
¡°¡± | Ryan Engstrom (George Washington University, United States), Jonathan Hersh (Boston University, United States), and David Newhouse (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, and Elena Ianchovichina (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Prabhat Barnwal (Michigan State University, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Vijayendra Rao (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Session 1B Data for Development | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Amparo Ballivian (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Arun Jacob (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland) |
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¡°" | Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen, and Mizuki Yamanaka (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡±&²Ô²ú²õ±è;´¥&²Ô²ú²õ±è; Gabriel Pestre (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), Emmanuel Letouz¨¦ (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), and Emilio Zagheni (University of Washington, United States) |
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Session 1C Adoption of Agricultural Technology and Fertilizers | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Melissa Johns (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Saher Asad (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) |
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¡°¡± | Kyle Emerick (Tufts University, United States), Alain de Janvry (University of California, Berkeley, United States), Elisabeth Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley, United States), and Manzoor H. Dar (International Rice Research Institute) |
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¡°¡± Discussant: Daniel Ayalew Ali (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Session 1D Development, Colonial Rule, Ethnic Diversity, and Genes | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Albert Zeufack (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera (American University, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Marie Lechler (Munich Graduate School of Economics, Germany) and Lachlan McNamee (Stanford University, United States) |
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¡°¡± Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Rishabh Sinha (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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12:30¨C14:00 | Lunch | James D. Wolfensohn Atrium |
14:00¨C15:00 | Keynote Address 2: Machine Learning and Development | Preston Auditorium Chair: William Maloney (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University, United States) DOWNLOAD: |
15:00¨C15:15 | Coffee |
15:15¨C17:15 | Sessions 2A-2D |
Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tariq Khokhar (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Germ¨¢n Reyes (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°What are the Limitations of Survey Data versus Administrative Data in Impact Evaluation? The Case of an SMS Campaign¡± C¨¦sar Huaroto (Universidad de Los Andes, Argentina), Andrea Cornejo (Columbia University, United States), and Luis Baiocchi (Pontificia Universidad Cat¨®lica del Per¨²) |
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¡°¡± Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States), Kate Orkin and Simon Quinn (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Katie Simmons (Pew Research Center) |
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Session 2B Trade, E-Trade, and Networks | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Deepak Mishra (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Daniel Bj?rkegren (Brown University, United States) |
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¡°¡± Jingting Fan (University of Maryland, United States), Lixin Tang (Shanghai University, China), Weiming Zhu (University of Maryland, United States), and Ben Zou (Michigan State University, United States) |
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¡°¡± Cathy Ge Bao and Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University, United States) |
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¡°¡± Sami Bensassi (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine, France), and Cristina Mitaritonna (CEPII, France) |
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Session 2C Training and Managerial Skills | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Caio Piza (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, and Terence R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University, United States), Maurice Kugler (IMPAQ International LLC, United States), Juan Saavedra (University of Southern California, United States), and Luis Omar Herrera Prada (Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Disussant: Paulo Bastos (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Session 2D Crime, Civil Wars, and Hotspots | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Yujin Jeong (American University, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Ricardo Maertens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) |
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¡°¡± | Toni Oki (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
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¡°¡± Andrey Bogomolov (University of Trento, Italy), Andr¨¦s Clavijo (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Gabriel Pestre (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Joan Serr¨¤ (Telef¨®nica Barcelona, Spain), Natalie Shoup (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Alvaro Ramirez Suarez (Telef¨®nica Colombia, Colombia), Emmanuel Letouz¨¦ ( Data Pop Alliance, United States), Bruno Lepri (University of Trento, Italy), and Nuria Oliver (Telef¨®nica Barcelona, Spain) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Julian Jamison (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 |
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Preston Auditorium | |
08:00¨C09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
09:00¨C10:00 | Keynote Address 3: Thick Description in Empirical Economics DOWNLOAD: |
10:00¨C10:15 | Coffee |
10:15¨C12:15 | Sessions 3A-3D |
Session 3A ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPPing, Financial Inclusion and Borrower Data | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tatiana Didier (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Xiaowen Dong (MIT Media Lab, United States), Eaman Jahani (MIT Media Lab. United States), Alfredo Morales-Guzman (MIT Media Lab and New England Complex Systems Institute, United States), Bur?in Bozkaya (Sabanci University, Turkey), Bruno Lepri (MIT Media Lab and Fondazione Bruno Kessler), and Alex ¡®Sandy¡¯ Pentland (MIT Media Lab, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Sinja Buri (IFC), Robert Cull (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Xavier Gin¨¦ (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), and Sven Harten (IFC) |
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¡°¡± Disussant: Martin Cihak (International Monetary Fund) |
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Session 3B Political Power, Media, and Favoritism | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Claudia Sepulveda (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Gareth Nellis (Yale University, United States) |
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¡°Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science¡± Raymond Fisman (Boston University, United States), Jing Shi (RMIT University, Australia), Yongxiang Wang (University of Southern California, United States), and Rong Xu (Renmin University of China, China) |
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¡°¡± Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia, Canada), Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), and Julien Labonne (Yale-NUS College, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Luis-Felipe Lopez Calva (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Session 3C Measuring Employment, Time, and Women's Agency | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Nada Hamadeh (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°" Vellore Arthi (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Kathleen Beegle (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Joachim De Weerdt (University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, The Netherlands) and Amparo Palacios-Lopez (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Jeannie Annan (International Rescue Committee), Aletheia Donald (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Kathryn Falb (International Rescue Committee), Gayatri Koolwal ( World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP and UN Foundation) and Markus Goldstein (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, and Agnes Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute) |
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¡°¡± Discussant: Margaret McMillan (Tufts University, United States and International Food Policy |
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Session 3D Disease Prevalence, Disease Targeting, and Health Costs | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Eeshani Kandpal (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Joseph Gomes (University of Navarra, Spain) |
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¡°¡± Zo? McLaren (University of Michigan, United States) and Rulof Burger (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
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¡°¡± Discussant: Owen Ozier (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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12:15¨C12:30 | Brown Bag Lunch | Preston Lounge |
12:30¨C14:00 | Panel: The Science and Economics of Data | Preston Auditorium Chair: Shanta Devarajan (Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region,World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
14:00¨C14:15 | Coffee |
14:15¨C16:15 | Sessions 4A-4D |
Session 4A Teachers Pay, Teachers Productivity, and School Fees | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Halsey Rogers (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Natalie Bau (University of Toronto, Canada) and Jishnu Das (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Barbara Bruns (Center for Global Development), Leandro Costa (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), and Nina Cunha (Stanford University, United States) |
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¡°" Tessa Bold (Stockholm University, Sweden), Deon Filmer (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Gayle Martin (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Ezequiel Molina (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Brian Stacy (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Christophe Rockmore (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University, Sweden), and Wally Wane (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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"¡± Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States) |
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Session 4B Decentralization, Development Projects, and Corruption | Room MC 7-100 Chair: David Rosenblatt (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Freeha Fatima, Hanan G. Jacoby, and Ghazala Mansuri (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°Decentralization Without Representation (Or Mobility): Implications for Rural Public Service Delivery¡± Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues (International Food Policy Research Institute) |
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¡°¡± Samuel Bazzi (Boston University and BREAD, United States) and Matthew Gudgeon (Boston University, United States) |
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¡°¡± Discussant: Paolo Mauro (Peterson Institute for International Economics, United States) |
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Session 4C Structural Transformation, Taxes and Subsidies: Evidence from Firms | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Poonam Gupta (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°" Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College, United States) |
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¡°¡± Miriam Bruhn (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± Discussant: Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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Session 4D Random Control Trials, Lab Experiments, and External Validity | Room MC 9-100 Chair: David Evans (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Paul Carrillo (George Washington University, United States), Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini (Inter-American Development ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP) |
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¡°¡± | Marie Boltz (Paris School of Economics, France), Karine Marazyan (University of Paris 1, France), and Paola Villar (Institut National d¡¯Etudes Demographiques (INED) and Paris School of Economics, France) |
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¡°¡° Niklas Buehren (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Markus Goldstein (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland, United States), Joao Montalvao (World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP), and Katya Vasilaky (Columbia University, United States) |
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¡°¡± | Discussant: Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland, United States) |
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Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 |
Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 |